Ask HN: I built a free elevator pitch phone hotline for HN users, what now?

51 points

16 years ago

After a short discussion with HN user wheels (Hi Scott!) about pitches last week I came up with a pretty obvious idea:

PitchPower: The Elevator Pitch Phone Service : (209) 215-2160 http://pitchpower.appspot.com

Call the number, pitch your idea in 20 seconds, the service records it & publishes it online for you to share with the HN community. Tip: if you're not in the US you can use Google Voice to make international calls for free.

You'll have to prove that you are a HN user by adding the string 'pitchpower' to the 'about' field in your profile when you claim a pitch, you can safely remove it afterwards.

There's more to the idea (turn it into a chatroulette for pitches?) but I decided to throw my half-baked half-day effort on AppEngine & see what the HN community thinks.

Call now to check it out, because my free Twilio credit will run out at some point. (Hi, Twilio!)

So tell me: what should be the next feature for PitchPower?

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