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voip.ms requires setting up SIP credentials and configuring a softphone (or their app). Great for technical users who want maximum control and lowest rates. Voklit is for people who wish to download an app / use the browser and start calling immediately without touching any settings.

ahmgeekon Show HN: I built an international calling platform for the past 6 months

If you just want to use a Voklit number for meetings, you can already: - Set your Voklit number as caller ID when dialing out - Forward calls to your Teams/Zoom meeting dial-in

That's easy.

If you mean enterprise support, that's on the grid, if I have enough money to quit and focus / hire for Voklit. I would do that.

ahmgeekon Show HN: I built an international calling platform for the past 6 months

Of course, nice suggestion, on it <3

ahmgeekon Show HN: I built an international calling platform for the past 6 months

You are right, I will change that now so I don't mislead users.

Thanks for flagging this.

ahmgeekon Show HN: I built an international calling platform for the past 6 months

I have monitoring in place for such behaviour, also detection for too many calls under specific amount of time with locations. I am still very new to actually have scamers finding the website I think.

ahmgeekon Show HN: I built an international calling platform for the past 6 months

Usually, you need a presence in each country, like an official entity. It's easy for a myriad of countries to do that for a fee; even in Dubai, you can form a company. Then you can acquire numbers easily in these countries. I am now supporting the UK (easy to get)/US/CA, and will soon support some European countries as well. What's hard are the countries that require authority talks like Egypt :D

I am Egyptian living in Europe, so I want to support it, but I left it for a bit.

There are a lot of telephony providers out there (Twilio, Bandwidth, etc.) So it's easy to start building.

ahmgeekon Show HN: I built an international calling platform for the past 6 months

How many developers developed it? Just myself, I hardly slept enough during building it, but it paid off :D

How much time it took? I started in April, but started coding enf of May

You started earning? Yes, 2 paying customers, very very minimal but that prooves the need I think

How are you advertising? Hard, still trying to market to it

Why not people call from there phone for international call? It's expensive; this is a cheaper option for sure.

ahmgeekon Show HN: I built an international calling platform for the past 6 months

Ask me anything related to the technology/revenue and whatnot...

ahmgeekon Ask HN: I built a SaaS that nobody asked for, now what?

Thank you, great idea, I will add it to the homepage.

ahmgeekon Ask HN: I built a SaaS that nobody asked for, now what?

Thank you so much, really helpful. I will try to reach some people I know.

ahmgeekon Ask HN: I built a SaaS that nobody asked for, now what?

Really embarrassed by it, I shared on here and on Producthunt, but got near zero engagement.

https://voklit.com

ahmgeekon Show HN: Voklit – Cheap international calls without the carrier markup

Rates are: $0.05 per minute for US/UK/CA and varies internationally, there is a whole usage and rates section in the billing page if you signup.

ahmgeekon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)

Location: Austria, Vienna

Remote: Yes / open to hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes, (London, US)

Technologies: Kubernetes, Containers, Ruby, Python, Go, Backend, Distributed systems, release management, SRE, DevOps.

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: tolba [at] hey [dot] com

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I don't think DHH is the problem, he is vocal, yes, but trying to shut him down or cancel him because his opinions?? that's not fair.

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ahmgeekon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)

  Location: Vienna, Austria
  Remote: YES
  Willing to relocate: To US
  Technologies: SRE, DevOps, Go, Ruby, Terraform, Ansible, Chef...
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J1Rloh8ulygkkfbY0_ODWGtcBBD6NMh3dkXkF-cTGOg/edit?usp=sharing
  Email: tolba@hey.com

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That's deprecated