{"id":22556,"date":"2014-01-09T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T10:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=22556"},"modified":"2014-01-09T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T10:22:03","slug":"efounders-latest-saas-startup-aircall-io-flexible-scalable-customer-hotline-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2014\/01\/efounders-latest-saas-startup-aircall-io-flexible-scalable-customer-hotline-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing AirCall.io (by eFounders) &#8211; a flexible, scalable customer hotline tool for SMEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22692\" alt=\"Aircall.io\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/ico-usphome-screen2-922376ea31a4274f7ea3656c7f1896c6-e1389262774518.png\" width=\"901\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/efounders.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eFounders<\/a> has made a name for themselves by building solutions to basic problems that software startups have &#8211; whether it&#8217;s social media (<a href=\"http:\/\/mention.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mention<\/a>), email management (<a href=\"http:\/\/mailjet.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mailjet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/frontapp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frontapp<\/a>), PR (<a href=\"http:\/\/pressking.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pressking<\/a>) or translation (<a href=\"http:\/\/textmaster.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">textmaster<\/a>) &#8211; and their latest project, <a href=\"https:\/\/aircall.io\/#!\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aircall<\/a>, is certainly playing to their strengths. The service provides startups a scalable customer service hotline across multiple countries, which can be redirected to any number of employee phone numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The service looks a lot like Zendesk to me, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped eFounders from carving out a place for itself. The group hosts all of its companies in a common Paris office space, and I can imagine that many resources are shared among the companies, such as potential clients &amp; opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the product is available in 40 countries, roughly the number of countries that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twilio.com\/help\/faq\/phone-numbers\/which-countries-does-twilio-have-phone-numbers-in-and-what-are-their-capabilities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twilio currently has phone numbers available in<\/a>, which leads me to believe that the service is being built on top of Twilio. The product&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/aircall.io\/#!\/features\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list of features<\/a>\u00a0include a shared call log, unlimited calling, a collaborative management tool, click-to-call web interface &amp; more; essentially everything a startup might need to feign a customer hotline service.<\/p>\n<p>You can request access to a beta of the service <a href=\"https:\/\/aircall.io\/#!\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; if you&#8217;re looking to offer a hotline experience for your startup, this may be a simple, scalable solution to get you started.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eFounders has made a name for themselves by building solutions to basic problems that software startups have &#8211; whether it&#8217;s social media (mention), email management (mailjet, frontapp), PR (Pressking) or translation (textmaster) &#8211; and their latest project, Aircall, is certainly playing to their strengths. The service provides startups a scalable customer service hotline across multiple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":22692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}