CallNection German Gamboa, Garrett Curtis, Vincent Tang, and Eric Good won prizes from Flowroute ($250), Telesign ($250) and VoIP Innovations ($250). Its an interesting take on the anonymous chat chat scenario. The scenario of Harold and Peaches getting to know each other was another comedic masterpiece. Presented at TADHack-mini Orlando 16-17 March 2019.
6. Welcome! What’s your
name
How old are you?
Where are you
located?
What’s your
gender?
What gender would you
like to talk to?
1-225-800-1080
Let’s Chat
Thank you everyone for joining us today. We want to thank Alan and all the sponsors for the opportunity to work with their products and create new innovative products.
Nowadays dating is decided on your physical appearance instead of the connection you might have with someone. Before you even get a chance to talk to someone you are instintaly swiped away. Someone might swipe you that could be the perfect match, but you will never know because they didnt like your dog. CallNection wants to remove the physical aspect of dating and make it all about connecting with someone on a personal level.
How CallNection wants to do this is take the old fashion phone call and add a modern twist to it. Do you remember being a teenager and stay up for hours talking with your girlfriend or boyfriend about whatever came up. (No you hang up first..No you hang up first). CallNection wants to connect you to others looking to find a true connection with someone, we want you to connect through words not through pictures.
Personal level
How does it work.
With CallNection you get to stay 100% anonymous. The only info that is shared is the info you tell your connection. You dont have to download an app and accept a bunch of permissions, You dont have to go to a website and fill out pages of personal questions about yourself. You dont even have to give us your E-mail. So what do you do?
Let's say herald wanted to start dating again, but he wants someone he could have meaningful conversations with, not just someone that wants him for his body. (I got you Herald :wink:). What herald would do is text “let’s chat” or call our number, this will start a profile process for him.We ask 5 simple questions to find you a connection. First you will get our welcome text with info about what CallNection is and a prompt to tell us what your name. From there we will ask for your age, your zip code, your gender, and what gender you would like to talk to. And that’s it. We have all we need to connect you to other people that are ready to connect. Let’s start talking.
Herald is now ready to start make a connection. Lets try it out. (Live demo). Call and wait. Have Garrett call and connect. Hang up.
Herald can call whenever he wants to talk with someone. And one day he will find his true CallNection.
Okay talk about backend
Built with Real time database
Google Firebase
Logs of users, call sessions, and SMS signup
Asynchronous connections for SMS logins
Sends requests over to other services depending on events
We need to connect to our phone now
Flowroute for SMS
Handles inbound and outbound SMS which connects to firebase store
When a user gets forward to next API
API-Daze
Connecting to call, logic chain
Magic happens here, we can put you on hold, and then into a conference room
Telesign
For future additional phone validation
1: You get a welcome message,
In the backend it looks through our backend, looking for a profile
2: If you do have a profile, it places you through a queue in holding music
It says “We’re looking for a match for you. There’s X number of uses in queue”
It matches up based on your preferences. Your age differences and gender
Other API - phone score
3. This matches against the queue.
Your age, location, and preference
So for instance, Harold would want to find a local Peach around his age group
He might not want to be matched with someone from another state
He might not be into males
Or maybe he just wants to be a sugar daddy
4. Once match is made, both users connect to unique conference
Garrett . .06 per sign up .005 per minute
NEW NOTES
So future implementations
This service, it’s much like the old days of ChatRoulette, except for phones
Since there aren’t many users starting out, we decided that users who opt in
Will get a reminder at 7 PM EST to connect
This guarantees less people are on wait
Our system handles Asynchronous number of conference rooms
OLD NOTES
Moving forward add preference age and location. For instance, if you want to match with someone your age group locally
Like to use telesign phonescore to match up candidates with similar scores
We’d also like to add surveys at end of calls, to report abuse and feedback for future improvements
We’d like topic of the day, as an icebreaker, when a call is connected between 2 users
And finally, we’d like to add WebRTC web-realtime communications, for next level face to face connections
German’s notes
How can we make money with this?
We’re thinking charging a monthly fee, lower barrier to entry
We’re thinking charging a fee
Charge $5 to $10 per month for someone who really enjoys the service
Charge by number of minutes, for someone who wants a one-off session
Integrate with their APIs