{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Still Early","title":"Fix the inputs, not the output","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2915,"description":"In this episode:\nThe Phone.inc iPhone app is out with its first users, and there's a real call on the platform every hour during Danish business hours\nWhy Phone.inc decided to roll its own voice infrastructure (and how a senior engineer reimplemented a SIP library in an afternoon with Claude)\nNiklas on his biggest worry: scaling the commercial side, and his investors telling him he's trying to fix it too early\nSplitting the podcast and the vlog into two channels, and a short that hit 22,000 views\nPeter's partner-description workflow and the lesson that stuck: when the writing is bad, fix the inputs, not the output\nGetting OG Kit recommended by LLMs, and learning GEO from scratch\n\n---\nRecorded remotely while Niklas holds down the fort solo (his wife is in China for the week, and he's flying to San Francisco right after she's back).\nNiklas kicks off with the big news: the Phone.inc iPhone app is out with its first handful of users. There's a Slack channel called Pulse that pings on every call, and these days there's a real call on the platform pretty much every hour during Danish business hours. The first version just handles making and receiving calls, but the goal is for the app to become the leading interface so you don't need the web app at all. He also shares a fun moment with Katrine, their designer, who doesn't have a Figma license and works directly with Claude instead. He nudged her to stop writing a detailed Linear ticket and just build the thing, and by lunch she'd shipped it. A few days later she messaged him at half past midnight saying she couldn't sleep because building was too fun.\nThe bigger Phone.inc decision: they're rolling their own voice infrastructure instead of buying it. Fully loaded (staff, office, hosting) it's still 3-5x cheaper than buying from a supplier, which opens the door to something Niklas hasn't seen before, a freemium phone system. It pushes the public launch back a couple of months, but it's worth it. There's a great story...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jiN5sNwxC3favF-CuribFhPuNYrIJomhSIW6PRT4RAk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hYTNj/MDZmN2Y1ZjQxYjEx/MjA1YWIzYzhlNWYy/ZmExYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}