Show HN: I hate waiting on hold with the bank so I made an app that waits for me

4 points by JVillella 5 years ago | 2 comments

Hi HN!

I've been dealing with banks, telehealth, and CRA a ton these days over the phone. I guess a lot of others have too since the hold times have been ridiculous. I built a little tool that waits on hold on my behalf and calls me when an agent is on the other line. It's saved me some time so I thought I'd share it with others: https://youcallme.io

I generated a few quick access pages for the worst offenders too: e.g. https://youcallme.io/wayfair https://youcallme.io/chase-bank https://youcallme.io/jetblue-airways https://youcallme.io/walmart and a bunch others.

Would love to hear if you find it useful for yourself

mig_ 5 years ago |

Thanks you! With COVID, I found myself calling the local health department hundreds of times a day. After day 2, I found myself deep in the world of asterisk. I figured out how to build a service similar to the one you are providing, but it damn sure wasn't easy. Wish I had found you a few days ago!

Can you talk about the stack you used? I used asterisk + questblue. I got asterisk running in a docker container. I still want to play with ASI.

solstice 5 years ago |

Are there any geographical limits? Does this e.g. work in Europe too?