building a pay-as-you-go alternative to per-seat business international call phone systems (Currently at $125 MRR)
Been working on Teams for Airlophone lately.
Most business phone systems charge you monthly + per seat, which makes sense if your team is on the phone all day.
But there’s this weird middle ground where an individual or a company needs to call internationally, just not enough to justify paying for another phone system every month. That’s what I’m building Airlophone around.
One shared wallet, invite your team, set limits, and everyone just pays for whatever calls they actually make.
Also working on AI notes for recorded calls. it takes the call + whatever notes you typed yourself and puts everything together after.
Basically Granola but for your phone calls.
Airlophone did ~$125 in the last 4 weeks from 19 payments. still tiny and I’m very much figuring out distribution, but pretty cool seeing strangers actually paying for and using it.
still building Teams rn. would love to get a few companies using it while I figure this out.
Helpful post. How did you get your first bit of traction?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Appreciate the honesty here, most people only share the wins.
Interesting. How are you measuring whether it is working?
What made you pick this stack over the alternatives?
Really relatable. How much time do you put into this each week?
Clear and practical, thanks. Did anything surprise you along the way?
Appreciate the honesty here, most people only share the wins.
Interesting. How are you measuring whether it is working?
I’d push back on the shared wallet idea a bit. It sounds cleaner for companies, but doesn’t it create an awkward control problem once you have several employees making international calls from the same balance?
If one person suddenly burns through a big chunk of the wallet, the “pay only for what you use” advantage could start feeling less predictable than per-seat pricing. Are the per-user limits meant to solve that completely, or are you considering separate departmental budgets/approval rules too?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Nice work shipping it. What has been the biggest challenge since launch?
Nice progress. What is the next thing you are focusing on?
Solid lesson. Which channel has worked best for you so far?
Nice work shipping it. What has been the biggest challenge since launch?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Solid lesson. Which channel has worked best for you so far?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Nice progress. What is the next thing you are focusing on?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Solid lesson. Which channel has worked best for you so far?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Solid lesson. Which channel has worked best for you so far?
Nice work shipping it. What has been the biggest challenge since launch?
Appreciate the honesty here, most people only share the wins.
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Solid lesson. Which channel has worked best for you so far?
Of the 19 payments, have any revealed recurring team or company usage—and what behavior would validate Teams as a stronger growth path than expanding individual calling demand?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Solid lesson. Which channel has worked best for you so far?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Nice work shipping it. What has been the biggest challenge since launch?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Appreciate the honesty here, most people only share the wins.
Nice progress. What is the next thing you are focusing on?
Nice work shipping it. What has been the biggest challenge since launch?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Nice progress. What is the next thing you are focusing on?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Nice work shipping it. What has been the biggest challenge since launch?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Appreciate the honesty here, most people only share the wins.
Solid lesson. Which channel has worked best for you so far?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Nice work shipping it. What has been the biggest challenge since launch?
Love this angle. Building Xstream4K right now so this hits close to home — what made you look into it in the first place?
Nice, this makes a lot of sense. What's been the most surprising part of it so far?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Appreciate the honesty here, most people only share the wins.
Solid lesson. Which channel has worked best for you so far?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Nice progress. What is the next thing you are focusing on?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Nice work shipping it. What has been the biggest challenge since launch?
Nice work shipping it. What has been the biggest challenge since launch?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Interesting approach. What was the hardest part to get right?
Appreciate the honesty here, most people only share the wins.
Solid lesson. Which channel has worked best for you so far?
Makes sense. Are you planning to charge for it, or keep it free for now?
Love this angle, honestly. What made you look into it in the first place?
I have banks and clients overseas and many of the entity I need to call kinda use landlines, I looked at dialpad and rebtel (recommended by some friends) but they have monthly subscription while I don't use it that frequently honestly, so I thought there must be some people out there with a simmilar issue. now I’m experimenting with the team side + AI notes bc I usually use AI notes for my clients meeting in general.