vox.io

Messages + Content

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:13:00 +0200

At vox.io, we care about real-time communication. We’ve focused on delivering a great experience of voice and video calls, straight from your desktop browser, but we know that real-time communication is much more than that.

When we started vox.io, we wanted to innovate your communication experience by:

making it easier to start a conversation,
enhancing your communication experience, and
providing you with information about your previous conversations via your personal history page.

Our first attempt at making it easier for you to start voice and video conversations were our permanent or disposable links that can be shared via email, instant messengers, Twitter, Facebook, and even scheduled as calendar events. Instead of the endless exchange of usernames or phone numbers, you can initiate a conversation by the simple click of a link.

 Now, the time has come for us to enhance the way we communicate in real-time. We introduce to you vox.io chat.

Communicate with content

At vox.io, we’ve observed how most of the world chats online, and we’ve found that in addition to the short messages we type to one another, we also like to share tons of links to cool stuff we find around the web. We communicate by showing content - by typing “Check this video out” or “Have you seen this?” and then pasting a link. But when we click on that link, we’re forced to leave our chat for a new tab/window and miss out on a dozen messages. But not anymore.

In the new vox.io chat, we’ve put that content right beside your conversation, so you can share tons of links with your friends and they won’t have to leave the conversation to check them out. Imagine, for example - you can now see a video clip and your chat box side by side at the same time, without having to toggle windows or awkwardly resize your browser to chat and watch at once.

  To start, we’re supporting more than 200 services including YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Twitter, Instagram and Google Maps for in-line sharing.

Online/offline messages

When a person you’d like to message is not online, you can still send them as many chat messages as you’d like. We will safely store them and deliver them immediately the next time your contact comes online. Alternatively, you can also send your chat message as an SMS straight from the chat interface.

When voice and video are not enough

During a call, sometimes you need to use more than just your voice or a smile to communicate. That’s why we’ve brought the same rich experience into vox.io calls.

You can now easily share a photo, map, slide-show or set of videos, right within your vox.io call. What could be better than getting to watch your friends smile at the latest funny video you just showed them?

Mobile

A mobile version of vox.io with support for text-based communication is already in the works and will be available soon. During the transition period, we will not display your contacts using vox.io on mobile as available for chat.

Please let us know what you think on Twitter or our support page. We’re always looking forward to your thoughts and ideas - vox.io is only getting better because of you.

vox.io for iPhone

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:22:00 +0100

The long awaited vox.io mobile app for iPhone is finally here. We’ve been working on it for a very long time because we wanted to make sure it would both work and feel great. Calling, messaging and starting conversations has never been so easy.

If you want to grab it right away, feel free to leave this blog post and jump over to our dedicated iPhone page… this post can wait.

The app has undergone several iterations and we’ve worked hard to capture the same magic that makes vox.io great in your browser.

Product design

We thought a lot about how the mobile interaction context is different from the desktop context and we’ve figured out that the main difference is being able to type fast. In such a setting, search does not work as well as on the web, but (relatively short) lists work very well.

The second big thing we had in mind is that users expect to perform a task on the mobile platform in under 15 seconds to feel good about the whole experience. We’ve tested every action in vox.io and cleaned up the interface until we got there.

Finally, we built a product we believe can set the basis for a series of updates that we will be releasing at a fast pace.

Hybrid approach

Since vox.io is built on web concepts and uses links extensively for profiles, Quick Calls, and Group Calls, we had to take an almost unique hybrid approach in building the vox.io mobile experience. The application is complemented by a mobile web interface that is optimized in terms of size, content and speed.

Don’t worry, you can still make calls from the same links that you have been using on the desktop web version of vox.io.

Favorites, Recents, Contacts

A core component of vox.io are the people. When you access vox.io on your iPhone for the first time, you can easily import your address book. We do our best to filter duplicate entries and clean it up a bit for you, and you can always manage duplicate contacts manually via the desktop web interface.

We made sure you can access any contact easily from three different views:

Favorites are the people that you ♥ most (or at least contact the most). You can easily add them by tapping the heart shaped icon on each contact.
The Recents tab displays a list of contacts you’ve recently been in touch with.
In the Contacts tab, you’ll be able to scroll along all of your thousands of contacts that you’ve collected so far.

Both favorite and recent contacts let you call with a single tap, while clicking on a contact in the Contacts tab will take you to a detailed contact view, where you can call, message, email, or send a Quick Call invite.

Swipe

To let you perform all possible actions on a contact quickly (remember the 15-second rule), we implemented a neat swipe gesture. Just swipe the contact in your contact list that you’d like to get ahold of to call, message, email, or invite to a Quick Call. Communication is now just a quick swipe away!

Change your number on the fly

One of the big changes vox.io brings to real-time communication is vox.io profiles that replace phone numbers. While traveling and using different SIM cards for data access, the vox.io iPhone app let’s you change your number on the fly, while keeping your vox.io profile link the same. There’s no longer any need for long email signatures or chain messages when you switch your phone number.

Quick Calls, Group Calls

vox.io for iPhone supports both Quick Calls and Group Calls. You can easily invite each of your contacts for a Quick Call straight from the application and they can call you back from their browser or from their iPhone using the same link.

When the Quick Call or Group Call links are opened on an iPhone, the content is adapted and optimized. Calls can be started easily by tapping the only big button on screen.

As you know, Quick Calls & Group Calls do not require a vox.io account, making it easy for those who don’t want to create an account before trying a vox.io call with a current vox.io user.

In the first iteration, vox.io for iPhone let’s you join an existing Group Call, but the ability to create a Group Call is currently in our mobile roadmap.

Pricing

The vox.io app is absolutely free, and as you know, all vox.io to vox.io calls are always free. vox.io to phone calls are charged according to our convenient rates. The same applies for text messages (SMSes) sent via vox.io.

Take the app for a spin and let us know what you think, how we can improve it, and what we should remove. We are listening to you on Twitter and on our Get Satisfaction page.

If you don’t have an iPhone but would still like to try vox.io, just sign up!

Group calls

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:55:00 +0100

After improving our video call experience, we’ve released a trial of our iPhone app to the wild (a.k.a. the App Stores in Slovenia and Croatia).

The response has been astonishing. We’ve jumped to #1 in the Social Networking category in just the first few hours! We know you are all eager to try vox.io for iPhone, so don’t worry, it’ll be available in many more countries soon.

To ease the wait, we are glad to introduce you to the easiest group calling solution on the planet.

Introducing vox.io Group Calling

Remember having to search through long lists to find the right phone number to dial, entering long conference codes, and dealing with unpleasantly unnatural voice interfaces that ruined what should have been a smooth calling experience? Online conferencing alternatives are just a bit better, but still far from a pleasant experience in terms of ease of use.

At vox.io, we’ve re-imagined group calling by building our Group Calls around the leverage and power of a simple link - all you have to do is create a Group Call link, share it with the people you want to join the call, and open the link to join the conversation. You can send the link via email, Facebook, Twitter, instant messaging or by simply scheduling a group call with your friends, family, colleagues, etc.

Join a vox.io Group Call

Joining a vox.io group call is the easiest thing ever. Just follow the group call link and click the big green button. No downloads, installation or even vox.io accounts are required to join a call.

Schedule Group Calls in Google Calendar

Remember the ability to create and send out vox.me Quick Call links via Google Calendar? The same applies to vox.io Group Calls.

To schedule a Group Call on vox.io, just open the Show more sharing options panel and click on the Create button. vox.io will create a Google calendar event and pre-fill it with content. Just just pick the date and time and send out the invitations, just like you’d do for a meeting. It’s that easy.

But the best has yet to come. Once the time for the group call arrives, all you have to do is click on the Group call link and you’re set. No list of numbers, no pins. Smooth and easy.

Let us know what you think about the new group calls on vox.io - we love to listen. Share your thoughts with us via Twitter, Facebook and GetSatisfaction.

Happy (group) calling!

Video calls 2.0

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:01:00 +0100

Thanks to your feedback, we’ve heard from many of you that you would like to see better video call quality on vox.io. Your wish is our command - we have recently implemented a much better encoded video call functionality that consumes less of your internet bandwidth and delivers better quality. Moreover, we’ve also added a special new setting that allows you to manually change the quality of the video during the call to suit the quality of your internet connection.

Smoother interface

We have also kept ourselves busy with making the entire web experience nicer and smoother for you use. As you know, we strive to deliver the simplest possible solution in every aspect of your vox.io experience; Now, it is much easier to enter and complete calls with vox.io (no more annoying page reloads).

Revamping Internet Explorer

We admit; vox.io hasn’t delivered the best experience on Internet Explorer so far. So, we worked on making this experience much better and streamlining it with your vox.io experience on other internet browsers, so that you are able to access and make full use of vox.io on Internet Explorer, too.

As it goes for any new feature on vox.io, we would really love your feedback via Twitter, Facebook or our GetSatisfaction page. We are doing our best to make it great, but we always appreciate your comments and suggestions.

Happy Calling!

Travel wisely, use a phone

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:45:00 +0200

We have started off vox.io with a simple wish: making internet communication more accessible, ubiquitous and simple to use. With the latest release, we are another step closer to it.

The pillar stones of our story

We’ve set the direction right from the beginning of our journey:

our unique profile URLs hide your real-life phone numbers behind a simple link. This way, you’ll never forget a phone number and always be reachable, no matter where you are.
our Quick call links provide the easiest possible way to talk to someone without the need to establish a long-term “relationship”: generate a vox.me link, send it out, and when the other person clicks on it, and you are talking. No need to install, download or even sign-up.

But we have still felt the pain in setting up everything, especially when traveling. Have you ever wanted to check your FB news feed or chat with a loved one when abroad? It’s pretty hard, the roaming charges are expensive. So the only viable solution quickly becomes buying a SIM card with a data package. But how do you get all of your contacts to be able to reach you on your new phone number?

Multiple phone numbers -> pick your calls, everywhere

That’s where vox.io steps in. You are now able to store multiple personal phone numbers right on vox.io. So, when you arrive at a new country, you can simply switch your SIM card, change your default number on vox.io, and voilá! People can still reach you through your unique vox.io profile (and soon via the iPhone client!), wherever you are.

How do we see people using the ability to have multiple phone numbers in combination with vox.io URL profiles? They post their profiles on social networks (facebook, twitter, about.me…), in email signatures and on business cards. By exposing your profile URLs, friends and colleagues will be able to reach you wherever they are without knowing your current phone number with a simple click on the big green call button.

Have you missed our previous announcements? Vox.io has recently become way cooler with the introduction of SMS messages, vox.me links and a much better calling experience.

Not yet a vox.io user? -> it’s pretty easy to sign-up and start calling in a minute.

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Please drop us a line on our Getsatisfaction page or via Twitter and Facebook if you have any questions or comments regarding our newest additions or service in general. Happy calling!

Call? Just vox.me

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:56:00 +0200

We’ve seen that you love our Quick Call links so we’ve decided to make them a bit funkier. First, we ditched our previous structure for Quick Call links (vox.io/qc/something) and changed them to vox.me/something. This way is not only easier but more straightforward. This wouldn’t have been possible without the tremendous help from our friends at .me. Thank you!

What more?

Until now, you have only been able to copy Quick Call links to your clipboard and then paste them into emails, Facebook messages and IMs. We now support 3 easy ways of inviting users to a Quick Call conversation: via email, and Google calendar, and our Facebook Send button.

The Google calendar option is particularly interesting- you are now able to super easily create a pre-populated Google Calendar event with a Quick Call link and afterwards invite people to the event via Google’s interface. It has never been easier to set up a set of distant meetings/conversations. And we promise, it will only get better.

How do we see people using Quick Call links?

We see our users utilizing the functionality in many different ways. For example, HR teams are now fetching Quick Call links to schedule all of their daily calls in a matter of a few clicks. No need to exchange usernames, no need to connect with everyone just to make a single call with them. Consulting professionals on social networks (such as Twitter and Facebook) are using it to post links to their follower base and offer free consulting calls to the lucky first caller. And, they can do it everywhere - as always with vox.io, calls get redirected to your mobile phones if you are not online.

What else? We are using Quick Call links to talk to our family members and friends who are not on vox.io yet. And maybe they never will be - that’s fine, it doesn’t matter with vox.io, because calling is now just a vox.me link away.

Want to learn more about our Quick Calls? Read our first announcement post about them.

Yes, vox.io does SMS

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:29:00 +0200

During this unusually hot European summer, we have been busy improving vox.io and creating a smoother calling experience. There are several tiny parts of vox.io that were updated in the past few weeks, and we’d like to point of two particular features that we think you’ll really enjoy.

Text messages (SMS)

Many of you told us that you’d like to have the option to communicate via text in addition to voice and video.

We are happy to announce the introduction of vox.io SMS functionality. We see this as the first step in making it really simple to communicate before a call or to simply let your friends know what you are up to. As usual with vox.io, we have been very focused on those tiny details that make your experience as good as it gets.

All the text messages you send (except for those sent to the U.S.) will be sent using your own phone number, making it easy for your friends to get back to you by simply replying to you with their phone, and you will then receive their reply on your mobile.

Moreover, we will be introducing more means of text-based communication soon, and as always, we would love to hear any of your ideas.

Calls sound better with you

We are striving to improve the vox.io communication network every day, making your calls sound and feel better. We know that there is a long road to perfection, but from now on you can help us get there a bit more quickly.

How? The next time you make a vox.io call, you might be prompted to rate the call and check a few boxes indicating which points we need to improve your call. It is a super easy process that will take no more than 15 seconds to complete. We greatly appreciate your feedback and will act as quickly as possible to fix any holes in our system to make your calls sound even better.

What do you think of the latest changes? Let us know on Twitter, Facebook or GetSatisfaction. We are listening.

New search & some other calling candies

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:57:00 +0200

Yesterday we released an improved beta version of vox.io web that will improve your overall experience and solve some of the pressing problems we saw that you were having while using the service.

Search

We noticed that most of you wanted to call people straight away, without having to import contacts or having us discover potential connections for you.

This is why vox.io now let’s you search all public profiles and add other vox.io users to your connections in a simple and elegant fashion, by using the the search bar in the main interface.

Connecting people

We really want you to connect with people around you and call them for free in the simplest possible way. We figured out that the interface to connect with other vox.io users was not intuitive and nice enough. Hopefully, a slightly better interface and flow will help.

Mobile

Last, but not least, we have been working night and day to bring you an awesome mobile experience that will close the circle with our vox.io web version. The first beta testers will start getting access to the vox.io iOS iPhone app in the next few days. If you want to take part in the beta program, just fill out this form.

There is also a special little surprise for those of you with iPhones - just navigate to vox.io on your mobile device. Please let us know more about what you’d like to see there.

Also: don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We’ll be delivering sneak previews of our iOS app continuously as it progresses ;)

Calling just got a bit better

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:23:00 +0200

We have been quiet for a bit, but today we are bringing you the next version of vox.io. It is full of new magic, improved functionality, and several bug fixes. Most of the improvements we made in this version are a reflection of what we have learned from you - our super beta users. We really did a lot, but there are a few things that deserve a special mention.

Need for speed

We all love fast web products, but we’ll admit it - vox.io was not fast enough, so we made some major improvements under the hood (we’ll prepare a more technical post on that soon), that will allow us to move faster in the future and make the calling experience as awesome and seamless as it gets; We are aiming for lightning fast.

Echo-o-o-o is no more

The second big improvement is a fresh new caller. We minimized its size, so it loads much faster, and we streamlined the design to make the flow simpler. But the most important thing we added is echo cancellation. To put it simply, your calls should sound great even without headphones. We are still tweaking this feature and would very much appreciate any feedback you have on it.

No re-loads

The third major change we made was adopting a complete AJAX interface, which makes it possible to seamlessly navigate through vox.io without losing connection. This simply means fewer dropped calls and a smoother way to reach your online contacts. To spice this up, we also improved your online presence. The colored border around your profile picture (in the top right corner) will tell you if you are offline, connecting, or available. Of course, being available means your connected contacts will be able to see and call you for free, so make sure you pin the vox.io tab in your favorite browser ;)

What’s next?

We are keeping ourselves busy. Major efforts are being directed towards having the mobile platform ready soon. First iOS, and then Android soon after that. On the web front, we will be adding some neat features without compromising the simplicity of your vox.io experience. Trust us, it is worth the wait.

Please let us know how you like the new update. We are listening to you on Twitter and Facebook.

Reinventing the Collect Call

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:29:00 +0200

At vox.io, we like to tear things apart and put them back together in a new and innovative way. As kids, we always played with Legos and built spaceships, sailboats, racing cars and impenetrable fortresses. If you can remember, there were always some unique features built in - parachutes, self-trimming sails, electric motors, or new edge catapults.

As grownups, we keep on building and innovating. One of the first innovations vox.io is bringing is the Quick Call, a reincarnation of something you used to know as collect calls. If you can remember (it’s been awhile, hasn’t it?), the main idea behind collect calls is that the recipient of the call pays for it.

We thought it might be a great idea to offer you that possibility. Since vox.io runs in your browser and does not require additional software installation, all you have to do is create a Quick Call link and share that link with the person you want to talk to. We can send Quick Call links via IM, IRC, e-mail, Twitter DMs, Facebook messages, and even calendar invites. Sound easy? That’s because it is.

All the recipient of the link has to do to call you back is open the link and click on the Start Quick Call button. vox.io will then ring your web browser if you are online. If you are not logged into vox.io from the web, the call will be directed to your phone instead—just like a regular phone call.

To make it even easier, we added an Invite to Quick Call action to every contact in your address book that has an e-mail address listed. You can now send nice Quick Call invites straight from your contact list.

But what is really beautiful about Quick Calls is that they are not intrusive - the person you want to talk to will be able to call you back whenever it is convenient for him or her. Think of it as another way to say “Call me when you can” message, but with a disposable phone attached to it. How much easier can it get?

To top it off, Quick Calls expire after one successful call, making them a great tool for you to get in touch with those you don’t want to share your phone number with, but would still like to talk to.

Try our Quick Call feature and let us know what you think on Twitter or via our Get Satisfaction page.

UPDATE: we have done some bigger changes to Quick Calls links recently. They are now generated with vox.me URLs. Read more about it.

10 to 160 in 5 minutes

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:13:00 +0100

This is a story about one calm January evening.

We just pushed an update to several vox.io subsystems and made a fairly big conceptual change in our beta invite system. The new invite system allowed every beta tester to spread the word about vox.io and post a referral URL to Twitter or Facebook in addition to the email invite system.

For each new beta tester that joined and completed the signup process (including the phone number verification via SMS), we awarded 0.15€ of bonus credit to the person that issued the invite. Before the change, access to vox.io’s beta was very limited - each user had a small number of invites that were only deliverable via email—meaning that the product was only accessible by our limited circle of friends.

Once the new invite system had been deployed, we ran a couple of functional tests (a super important move to make sure the product works), and tweeted about the update without mentioning the invite system specifically. At that time, vox.io was running with approximately 10 concurrent users on Chartbeat (which, by the way, is a brilliant tool).

Then something amazing happened.

After about 30 minutes, we saw traffic build up at an amazing pace with more or less a single referral URL. The source was HackerNews (a great online community/forum for hackers and nerds). Forty-five minutes after deploying the new invite system the magic began—we saw our user count jump from 10 to 160 within 5 minutes.

We did plan to follow this post’s guidelines and submit a “Rate our startup” post on HackerNews ourselves, but one of our users beat us to it and submitted his own referral URL to HackerNews along with his own tagline - Vox.io - Skype in the cloud. The guy saw a fair opportunity to increase his vox.io account balance, but he also saw a product worth promoting (as he told us later).

This was the first time our product experienced a serious user load and we’re proud to say that it survived the test brilliantly. Of course there were bugs, but we fixed them in real time and most users did not notice we were actually delivering new iterations of code while they were browsing around vox.io’s beta and making calls to their friends.

We ended the day with a fair number of signups - a record number of 187 concurrent users (according to Chartbeat) - and with two fairly big press stories for an unknown company from Slovenia - one on The Next Web and the other on FastCompany.

The moral of this story is that having a good product and a simple invite system can contribute enormously to acquiring new users. Nothing new, but worth remembering.

Join our beta, sign up for an invite on our landing page, and help us shape the future of telephony.

Continue the conversation on Twitter. Get in touch with @vox_io

London Calling

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:55:00 +0100

We just got the news - vox.io is one of the winners of Seedcamp London 2011 and will become part of the awesome Seedcamp family.

The Event

As we announced in our previous blog post, vox.io was selected as one of the 20 teams that got the chance of pitching in front of a huge number of high quality mentors. We flew to London and spent a great week there, getting to know brilliant people from a myriad of fields.

We think our friends from Garmz have summed up Seedcamp really well:

A super-highway of networking, mentoring-sessions, masterclasses & panel-discussions. All put in place to give young companies the right spin when entering the market and in setting up their further strategies.

The driving speed on this super-highway is super-fast. In a single day of Seedcamp London, we had to pitch our idea & product several times, were challenged from people with top experience, and got a lot of feedback that will help us move vox.io forward. We’ve met people from most top internet companies - Google, Facebook, Groupon, SoundCloud - just to mention a few.

We’ve also made some new startup friends - Huikea from Finland, GrabCAD from Estonia, Bipsly, Blooming from Italy and others (for a full list of superb teams check Seedcamp’s blog post). Finally, kudos to the Seedcamp team (Saul, Reshma, Carlos, Philipp and Jakob) for creating a great event, inviting top people and pulling everything off with a smile on their faces.

What does this mean for vox.io?

Becoming part of the Seedcamp family of startups will enable us to move even faster towards delivering our vision. This is a starting point for us, a validation of our work so far, and a “badge” we plan to honor. We will keep working hard on our product and you can expect even more cool things from us in the near future. Rock on!

We are going camping!

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:25:00 +0100

We’ve been selected among the teams that will be attending Seedcamp London, next week.

It is a great honor for us to be among the top teams from Europe that will get the chance to meet some awesome mentors that will help us get an even better understanding of the startup ecosystem while challenging our existing assumptions.

Why Seedcamp?

Seedcamp has traditionally been a great launching pad for startups form Slovenia. Our friends Zemanta won the first Seedcamp week in 2007, while our friends from Uniki, Shout’em and Visionect were all Seedcamp finalists.

Actually, we’ve applied to Seedcamp before, and one of our team members has mentored at a Mini Seedcamp event in the region.

How to get in?

Preparation for your Seedcamp or Mini Seedcamp application should start long before the official application opens. We have tried to meet as many experienced and intelligent people as possible (many of them connected directly to Seedcamp), explained our idea to them, got feedback, reconvened, and then finally composed our application.

The ideas we wrote in the application are quite a leap forward on what we had in mind six months ago because of all the feedback we got.

Remember to keep your answers compact and to the point. Limit yourself to a sentence or two for each answer. Do your homework, research the market, get some figures and write them down - you’ll need them. Even if those figures are not accurate to the last cent you will still have an overview of the market size and potential.

Finally, be honest with yourself and don’t push it. Spend a lot of time on the product and create something valuable for your users, not just something valuable for a startup competition.

Our Expectations

With some amazing mentors on the Seedcamp London roster, we are most definitely going to learn a lot. Our minds are open and ready, let the camping begin!

Hi.

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:19:00 +0100

Welcome to vox.io’s blog. We are a group of developers, designers and telco specialists with a funky vision for the future of voice & video communication. We’ve started vox.io to implement this vision through its products across multiple platforms (mainly web and mobile).

What is vox.io?

In its first incarnation, vox.io is a phone “stuck” in a browser - nothing to download, nothing to install. We allow you to make free calls over the internet and calls to anywhere on earth for convenient rates.

We don’t claim that we are the cheapest, nor that we have the best call quality - that’s for you to decide.

What we are sure of is that we are investing a lot of love and energy into making vox.io as lovable as humanly possible and hopefully your tool of choice for starting voice & video conversations.

How is that different from [insert desktop VoIP provider name here]?

The main difference is that with vox.io, you already have everything you need. There’s nothing to download or install, no new number to set up, and you don’t even have to put money into your account before trying it out.

If you can read this blog post, and if you’ve ever managed to watch a YouTube video on your desktop computer, you do not need anything else to start making calls.

Vox.io also let’s you import your contacts from Google Contacts (synced with your Android phone) or Facebook, saving you the hassle of having to manually create your contact list.

Okay, that sounds cool. What else?

When you sign up for vox.io, you will automagically get a vox.io/username profile page. Your friends, business partners, and even random people from the internet (depending on your privacy settings) will be able to find you, add you as a contact, and call you straight from there.

Finally, vox.io let’s you create ad-hoc, call-enabled links. Just create a link, send it, and receive a call once your link is clicked. Your friend does not need a vox.io account or an installed client to talk to you. These Quick Calls are free if answered with vox.io on the web, while calls to phones are charged as normal calls.

Where are you going with vox.io?

We believe that voice and video communication on the internet can be even better than it is today. With a fresh approach and new types of services, made possible by having a “phone in the browser,” we plan to enable many cases of casual voice and video communication on both web and mobile.

Stay tuned, we haven’t even started yet.