[tyingq]

This is just old fashioned telephone conferencing. Dial a number, enter a conference code. Uberconference has screen sharing, dial-out vs dial-in, etc.

The open source part of this seems nice, as opposed to figuring it out yourself with Twilio. They have it all packaged to run on Google App Engine. Though the timing isn't great now that Twilio supports their own "serverless hosting" via AWS Lambda. They should probably offer an option to deploy it that way as well.

This isn't earth shaking to me, but there are companies that still do a fair amount of plain old telephone conferences, and overpay for it.

[thenrich99]

(Creator here)

Yes, this is plain telephone conferencing and the landing page could definitely do a better job explaining that.

API Gateway + Lambda might still be an upcoming deployment option for this. App Engine was chosen as the initial deployment target because some of the additional features that will be added are cheaper / free for low volume usage when compared to AWS. This already requires Twilio, so releasing this initially for App Engine seems to resonate better.

[tyingq]

I was talking about "Twilio Functions". It's new. It happens to use AWS Lambda under the covers, but they don't mention that. You don't need an AWS account.

It's this: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/05/introducing-twilio-funct...

[wastedhours]

We've also had a lot of issues with some other conference tools, especially with different software stacks/plugins etc..., so having a quickfire backup solution that we can get to in minutes is useful (esp. compared to "mobile phone on speaker" in an empty corner of the office we've had to resort to in the past), even if it just voice.