![Background
Why do we care?
“Hi Chris it’s Bar, I’ve sent you
an email.
[describes email content]
Can you give me a ring when
you’re free?”](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/codeharbouroct2019-part2-191005132727/85/Hack-your-voicemail-with-Javascript-by-Chris-Willmott-codeHarbour-October-2019-7-320.jpg)
Hack your voicemail with Javascript by Chris Willmott (codeHarbour October 2019)
- 1. How To Hack Your Voicemail with JavaScript With ChrisWillmott
- 2. How to hack your voicemail with JavaScript
- 3. How to upgrade your voicemail with cloud voice*
- 4. Background What’s wrong with you Chris, its 2019
- 5. Background Why do we care? ● People still leave voicemails ● Opportunity for voice UX ● Make it actually useful!
- 6. Background Why do we care? “Oh uh hi Chris it's Foo here, please can you give me a call back when you get this?”
- 7. Background Why do we care? “Hi Chris it’s Bar, I’ve sent you an email. [describes email content] Can you give me a ring when you’re free?”
- 8. Background Why do we care? Shuffle shuffle. Hangs up.
- 9. Tools What you need 1. Cloud voice platform 2. Mobile carrier which supports call divert (most do) 3. No coding knowledge actually required for basics! 4. BUT JavaScript knowledge for advanced logic/APIs :)
- 10. Cost Cheaper than you think ● Mobile divert costs - usually per minute taken from minutes or billed PAYG ● CPaaS costs - very low
- 11. ● Communication PaaS ● Very developer friendly ● Good UK implementation ● Not affiliated with Twilio ● There are others: ○ Sinch ○ Plivo ○ Nexmo ○ Bandwidth
- 12. LIVE DEMO $ npm install itwillbefine wcgw --save-gremlins
- 13. What next? I can only shown you the door ● Play with Twilio! ● Get creative, hack ● Connect with other services ● Upskill and upsell
- 14. Something something sales Something something dark side { linkedIn: '/in/teaforchris', twitter: '@teaforchris', gitHub: 'github.com/teaforchris', } Not Me
- 15. Software Development Meetup 9th October @ 4Degrees Maidstone Other events Talking Tech 24th October @ Custodian Data Centre
- 16. Thank you! 😀
Editor's Notes
- #4: Actually only 10% code Everything else is drag & drop