[popupeyecare]

Im building https://trypixie.com to legally employ my 7 year old child, save on taxes and contribute to her Roth IRA.

Im also building https://www.keepfiled.com, a microsaas to save emails (or email attachments) to google drive

I almost forgot, I also built https://statphone.com - One emergency number that rings your whole family and breaks through DND.

I love building. I built all these for myself. unfortunately I suck at marketing so I barely have customers.

[yangikan]

Do you use Twilio for statphone? Or SIP? I want to build a telephony app, but the economics don't work out with Twilio.

[popupeyecare]

The economics don’t work for StatPhone either but I figured if it has value, I can find other ways to make money or bring down costs.

[yangikan]

Thank you - I figured Google Voice provides basic multiple rings facility. What are the extra things that you provide on top of that?

[popupeyecare]

I actually don't know if Google Voice has that capability unless you hack it by having each phone logged into the same account.

The biggest benefit for me with StatPhone is the incoming callerID is the StatPhone number. So even if the kid's school is calling from a random number, on your phone it shows the StatPhone number and you know its a call pertains to your child.

Also grouped escalation, so if my father calls in an emergency, the kids get called first and then the in laws and our uncle.

[rhoopr]

Can you clarify how Statphone deals with the problem of random spam calls hitting the number by chance and ringing everyone? I assume that’s how most spam operates these days, just brute force on number permutations. I love the idea!

[popupeyecare]

Sure!

Unfortunately if a spammer called the StatPhone number, it would dial everyone. I thought about blocking or automatically categorizing but then you may miss an important call from an unknown number.

Most spammers are actually operating off of known lists, usually made off of some data leak.

I haven’t encountered that issue yet. I don’t have a great solution for that case.

[rhoopr]

Fair enough! It's an extremely hard problem to solve.

[sakopov]

How do escalations work for statphone? If the first group doesn't respond to the call, does it escalate to the second group while the call is in progress still? What happens if the caller hangs up? Very cool idea btw!

[popupeyecare]

Hi!

If the first group doesn't pick up, it starts calling the second group, but first group continues to ring.

If the caller hangs up, all ringing is stopped.

The cool thing is if it encounters the native phone's voicemail, it hangs up and continues to ring so doesn't think it was a picked up call.

We do have our own voicemail that will eventually answer (user defined timing), which then transcribes and sends the voicemail+transcription to all the group members.

[codazoda]

Me too. Maybe we could mastermind? Reach out, my email is in my profile.

[sunnybeetroot]

Amazing landing for statphone, mind if I ask if it’s using any sort of UI library?

[hju22_-3]

I must concur, very tasteful.

[popupeyecare]

Nope. Just iterated slowly. Started by looking templates I liked on dribbble.

[otterley]

Did you consult any tax lawyers before releasing trypixie? Feels super risky.

[popupeyecare]

I did and a few CPAs. Surprisingly my customers have been CPAs buying to offer to their clients.

Pixie is more like quickbooks or any other record keeping software. We don’t employ the children, their parents do. And as long as the kids are doing legitimate work, it’s fair and actually the irs has a page on it. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

[sudokatsu]

Statphone is such a genius idea - very cool.

[hmokiguess]

Love these, really cool!

[samename]

these are all great ideas!

[Reforest8973]

TryPixie is a great idea