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New comment by drewsonian in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

drewsonian — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:43:19 +0000

FYI - your support email at havenphone.com is bouncing back as not found.

New comment by drewsonian in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

drewsonian — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:53:38 +0000

Sure thing! Behind every "unlimited" plan out there, there is a per minute rate that small carriers like us have to pay in order to get access to the regular phone network and connect to any phone number in the world. On top of that, there's a monthly cost per phone number, per E911 address registration, per voice channel, etc. Then, you have the ever popular "taxes and fees", which can vary based on the user's location and can become complex very quickly. Not to mention FCC registration fees and taxes. Then there's the cost of the server infrastructure to register the phones and keep them online. And finally - STIR/SHAKEN implementation has a cost of registration and verification as well.

New comment by drewsonian in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

drewsonian — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:44:53 +0000

I’ll send you a message to your support account :-)

New comment by drewsonian in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

drewsonian — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:21:28 +0000

This concept has been amazing for my family and kids.

Shameless plug: I started my own service without vendor hardware lock in.

https://chatterboxphone.com

New comment by drewsonian in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

drewsonian — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:16:42 +0000

Check out FusionPBX or FreeSWITCH. Great options, I like them better than anything Asterisk based right now.

New comment by drewsonian in "Launch HN: Skyvern (YC S23) – open-source AI agent for browser automations"

drewsonian — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:47:46 +0000

This is great, and I can think of several business uses and some personal.

Like this: Could I use this to pull screenshots or PDFs of my grocery receipts from a major grocery chain?