Would you need / use a service that provides you a temporary phone number, which forwards calls made to it, to your real number ?
Say you posted an ad to sell your bike on a classifieds site and posted your real no. There maybe a scenario where you will continue to receive calls from buyers long after you have sold the product (and forgotten to delete the ad)
Or lets say you signup on a real estate portal to look for an apartment and need to enter your no to get in touch with the renter. Chances are quite high that you will continue to receive spam sms’s and calls long after you have found your apartment.
With a service like https://www.maskmyphone.com/ you get a temporary number for a few days which forwards all calls to your real number and ‘stops’ working after you cancel your account.
The question we are grappling with at the moment is, IS there a big enough potential market for a service like this in India ? There is a working prototype available at https://www.maskmyphone.com/ but it still needs some work in terms of design, content and payment gateway integration. Apart from that, the product is functional.
It will be great if you could share some feedback / pros / cons about this service 🙂
This app has been built by Sandeep as a weekend hack based on a requirement from his friend.
So why am I writing this post ? I saw this post on HSI and was quite excited about this service. Further he had asked if it was worth investing more time and money to scale this app. I got in touch and offered to help with some parts (design, marketing, capital etc) and give it a shot.
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