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Description
Love Twilio? I do too! And, guess what? Well, now there's an open source alternative to it called Fonoster. Fonoster's platform enables you to communicate effectively with your customers through voice and messaging. In this video, @blackgirlbytes chats with Fonoster's founder, Pedro Sanders as he demonstrates how to use his platform and shares his background in telecommunications and engineering.
0:00 - Hook
0:43 - Who is Pedro?
02:57 - Making Telecommunications easier
04:21 - What is Fonoster?
06:53 - How do you connect to PSTN?
09:06 - Demo
30:34 - Star Fonoster on GitHub
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An
opportunity
to
get
a
telematics
engineering
degree
and
two
people
in
times
in
my
life,
one
of
them
was
in
2010
when
I
got
my
green
card
and
I
get
to
and
I
got
to
move
to
the
United
States.
It
was
a
great
experience
to
begin
with,
but
that
people
in
time
not
only
did
I
move
to
the
state
but
also
I
joined
the
military
I.
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B
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B
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Wow,
first
of
all,
I
want
to
see
more
Caribbean
people
in
Tech
and
then
I
did
not
know.
You
were
in
the
military
at
first
and
then
you
transitioned
back
to
Tech.
That's
really
interesting!
Oh
my
God
yeah
so
tell
us
about
what
is
fonister.
What
led
you
from
like
you
going
from
Coming
to
America.
Getting
that
tell
them.
You
said
telematics.
Is
that.
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For
sure
the
journey
started
a
long
time
ago,
with
the
maybe
a
seat
with
an
idea
and
the
idea
was:
can
we
make
telecommunications
easier
to
consume
for
developers?
They'll
say
the
original
idea
and
I
had
this
idea.
Many
years
ago,
even
before
I
came
to
the
state
and
even
before
it
was
called
faster
and
the
challenge
we
had
was.
The
industry
was
moving
to
apis
I'm
talking
about
in
2008.
We
didn't
even
have
rest
or
any
of
this
like
grpc
cool
apis.
We
have
nowadays
it
was
so
wait.
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No,
there
was
not
gone.
There
was
not
brought
constant,
at
least
of
anything
like
that.
We
have
we
had.
We
have
and
the
beginning
so
of
rest
might
have
been
there,
but
they
were
just
not
brought
adoption
of
that.
The
entire
industry,
not
only
telecommunication,
was
moving
to
that
and
I
thought
hey
what
if
we
can
make
all
this
complexity
of
our
telecommunication
and
kind
of
wrap
that
into
an
API
that
was
like
many
years
ago.
Back
then
I
didn't
have
the
tools.
I
didn't
have
their
knowledge
to
build
a
thing.
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I,
just
I
didn't
necessarily
have
the
money
to
put
it
together,
I
mean
either,
so
he
really
had
to
I
really
had
to
fast
forward
almost
a
decade
before
I
started
having
by
then
I
had
built.
Some
Frameworks
I
have
built
some
tools
around
this,
but
it
wasn't
really
the
shape
that
it
had
today.
So
that's
how
we
started
and
as
far
as
what
it
is.
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So
if
you
understand
what
what
Twitter
is,
then
we're
building
up
a
source
alternative
to
that,
if
you
can
think
of
generating
a
phone
call
automate
automatically
through
an
API,
that's
something
that
function
does
right.
If
you
called
let's
say
to
a
restaurant
and
you
get
grid
by
a
programmable
voice,
then
that's
that's.
What
final
sir
does
as
well
and
now
we're
moving
towards
supporting
most
use
cases
more
use
cases
like
sending.
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This
is
very
exciting
to
me,
because
during
2019
to
2021,
I
worked
at
a
company
that
used
twilio
help
heavily.
Basically,
what
we
were
doing
is
it
was
an
insurance
company
where
I'm,
not
an
insurance
company,
but
an
insured
tech
company,
where
insurance
companies
can
use
our
platform
to
have
like
operators
or
Insurance
operators
type
on
like
their
web
app
and
then
send.
That
would
send
a
text
message
to
their
like
clients
or
whatever,
like
the
people
that
needed
insurance,
so
they'll,
be
like.
C
App,
so
I
know
a
lot
about
twilio,
so
I'm
really
excited
to
see
like
what
funster
can
do
or
where
it's
at
right
now,
because
I'm
sure,
like
it's
a
lot
to
get
to
where
what
twilio
has
or
maybe
even
you're
doing
something
slightly
different
I
also
want
to
say
hey
to
the
chat
like
if
people
are
calling
in
not
calling
in
but
watching
in
and
I
want
to
know
where
you're
coming
from
so
I
see,
name
wardnero.
They
said
they're
calling
in
from
Dominican
Republic,
so
you
got
people
supporting
you.
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For
sure
the
Journey
of
a
call
typically
goes
like
this.
You
pick
up
your
phone,
you
call
to
a
number,
it
could
be
a
bank
or
something
like
that,
and
normally
it's
going
to
go
from
your
mobile
to
your
unless
you're
using
wireless
router.
But
typically
we
go
to
your
telephone
Tower
and
then
it's
going
to
go
to
what
we
just
say
the
pstn
in
the
pstn.
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Application
but
I
wanted
to
show
you
that
this
there's
no
magic
in
here.
This
is
just
a
normal,
normal
Express
server
running
in
the
back
end,
there's
nothing
to
create
it.
So
let
me
go
ahead
and
open
my
vs
code
really
quickly
to
show
you
that
yeah
on
a
computer,
it's
extra
slow
today.
So
that's
great,
maybe.
D
A
little
bigger
and
yeah,
it's
just
a
normal
noise
project
in
here,
and
what
I
want
to
show
you
is
that
this
is
where
we're
going
to
be
playing
I'll,
make
it
a
little
bigger
there.
You
go
perfect
so
in
here
this
is
a
super
simple
application.
This
is
the
simplest
one.
I
can
demo
today,
yeah
I'll
do
a
more
accomplishment
later,
but
all
we're
doing
here
is
receiving
a
phone
call
and
answering
the
phone
call
and
then
playing
a
sound,
a
typical
hello
war
and
then
hang
it
up
with
Cole.
Oh.
D
Yeah
is
this
happening
in
backhand
I
want
to
make
sure
I
close
this,
so
I
can
save
some
resources,
but
just
like
you're
doing
this
answer
and
play
and
hang
up,
you
have
other
options
like
you
can
gather.
You
can
gather
what
the
user
is
putting
on
his
keypad.
You
can.
You
can
put
some
silence
on
it,
so
you
can
play
with
you
can
play
with
these
verbs
to
make
the
flow
that
you
want.
I
want
to
show
that,
but
I'm
closing
this.
C
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Anyway,
so
now
we're
here,
this
is
the
voice
application,
but
since
I'm
running
on
my
local
station,
I
need
to
run
a
second
tool,
because
I
want
that
port
to
be
exposed
over
the
internet
and
I
will
use
this
to
call
anger.
You
probably
use
that,
as
before
this
set
basically
gives
me
an
l
that
I
can
use
from
the
internet
with
where
the
pharmacy
is
located.
E
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Is
this
yeah?
That's
that's
an
animal,
and
literally,
if
I
go
over
here,
you'll
see
you'll
see
a
lot
of
interaction
that
the
application
had
with
monster
yeah
so
that
that's
the
simplest
demo
I
wanted
to
show
you,
but
I
want
to
show
you
something
a
little
more
cool
than
that,
but
I'm
going
to
go
ahead
and
close
all
this
stuff
because
I
don't
need
it.
D
Okay,
I
just
don't
need
this
one,
so
the
second
demo
I'm
going
to
show
you
is
so
it's
a
use
case
where
you
can
connect
a
phone
number
with
a
was
what
you
call
an
intent
analysis
tool
and
okay
for
this
demo,
I'm
gonna
use
dialogflow
the
you
don't
have
to
do
any
programming
for
this
use
case.
So
once
you
it's
pretty
good,
so
you
can
literally
build
your
chatbot
the
way
you
normally
do
it
on
dialogflow
you
get
the
project
ID
and
you
just
plug
that
in
here.
D
Yeah
for
sure
I
can
tell
everybody
what
it
is
so
yeah
yeah
and
in
10
analysis
engine.
Basically
it
lets
you
do
have
a
natural
voice.
Conversation
natural,
not
voice.
Sorry,
once
you
have
a
language
conversation
in
the
past,
we
have
to
Echo
the
things
that
people
could
say
and
you'll
see
the
demo
yeah
you
can
now
do
so.
For
example,
if
I'm
asking
for
an
address,
I,
don't
have
to
say
the
exact
same
word:
I
can
use
a
variation
of
that
and
I
can
train
this
thing
to
yeah.
D
So,
for
example,
if
let
me
get
out
of
here
so
I
have
all
this
intense
from
here.
I
have
a
bunch
of
different
things.
This
is
a
bot
that
supports
like
a
restaurant
sort
of
thing.
Every
single
item
you're
seeing
here,
are
actions
that
the
customer
has
an
intention
to
execute
yeah.
Okay.
So
if
I
want
to
ask
the
boss
for
an
address,
I
have
an
intent
that
covers
that
intent.
D
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Images,
if
that's
what
you're
looking
for
and
they
remains.
Let
me
go
ahead
and
switch
over
this
app
to
show
you
how
this
looks
like
okay.
So,
instead
of
using
this
URL
I'm
going
to
switch
over
to
the
Ros
AI
demo,
that's
the
dialogflow
application.
Okay,
I'm
Gonna
Save
that
boom
and
because
this
is
a
live
stream
and
I
want
to
make
sure
that
we
have
something
that
is
risky.
We
created
that
we
created
an
app
just
for
this,
just
so
that
you
can
have
a
visual
of
what's
Happening.
Oh.
D
A
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B
D
Know
if
you
have
any
questions,
but
that
is
that's
some
of
the
basic
things
you
can
do
with
Foster.
There's
some
use
cases
where
you
can,
you
can
use
an
API,
you
can
trigger
a
call
and
your
phone
will
ring.
You
can
hear
the
same
thing
so
I
just
show
you.
There
is
a
feature
we're
working
on
a
feature
for
SMS.
We
literally
just
started
drafting
those
apis,
but
you
could
also
another
thing
you
can
do.
A
funnel
say,
which
is
a
little
difficult
to
demonstrate
here.
D
Is
you
could
also
like
if
you
have
an
office
and
you
have
everybody,
you
have
a
number
of
people
that
you
want
them
to
be
able
to
call
each
other
using
a
cell
phone.
You
can
do
that
also
with
chronoster
and
then
many
other
cool
features,
but
I
just
wanted
to
go
ahead
and
show
some
of
the
ones
I
think
are
a
bit
more
exciting
ones.
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Yeah
this
is,
we
are
launching,
and
this
is
actually
one
of
the
things
that
that
you
don't
have
something
like
this
in
Twitter.
This
is
something
yeah,
something
we're
building
so
so
the
idea
would
be
to
make
it
super
easy
for
anybody.
Let's
say
you
have
an
e-commerce
website.
You
can
easily
install
this
configure
your
bottom
funnel,
stick
create
your
chatbot
on
dialer
flow
boom,
you're
done.
C
I
love
it.
This
is
so
cool
and
I
like
how,
even
though
you're
an
alternative
to
twilio
you're
like
hey
what
about,
if
this
existed,
not
necessarily
copying
every
single
like
feature
in
there
I
want
to
know.
If
people
have
questions,
one
person
said
where's
the
link
to
this
code.
I
know
that
you
said
this
part
is
I,
don't
know
if
they
mean
the
link
to
the
repository
or
to
the
demo,
but
probably
to
the
repository.
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Okay,
that's
a
good
question,
so
I
think
that
the
best
path
is
connect
with
me
directly.
Okay.
So
if
you
can
find
me
on
Twitter
or
you
can
find
me
on
my-
you
can
find
my
GitHub
send
me
an
email
because
I'm
currently
onboarding
people
like
one-on-one.
This
is
something
I
like
to
do.
Just
go
more
people
see
what
their
use
cases
are
and
then
I
can
get.
D
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Yes,
oh
yeah
follow
Pedro
at
on
Twitter
or
I.
Guess
your
other
stuff
too,
but
your
handle
I
believe
is
Pedro
Sanders
and
then
underscore.
Is
that
correct?
Awesome?
Yes,
oh
hey
I,
don't
know
if
you
just
missed
it,
but
Pedro
made
basically
him
and
his
team
basically
made
another
version
of
Siri
or
Alexa.
It's
so
cool.
Someone
said
this
is
this,
for
sure
is
cool?
Would
love
to
connect
with
you
on
page
wow
I
cannot
read
today.
C
Would
love
to
connect
with
you
on
on
Twitter
Pedro,
something
like
that
they
said,
but
whatever
cool
yeah
that
would
be
awesome,
definitely
reach
out
and
okay,
so
your
onboarding
flow
is
reaching
out
to
you
first,
so
that
you
can
work
with
them.
One-On-One
I!
Imagine
because
it
can
be
a
little
bit
maybe
difficult
to
get
started.
It's
not
just
like
regular
web
development.
D
Some
yeah
some
of
the
projects
are
in
fact
like
at
the
moment
we're
keeping
the
core
from
within
the
team
because
of
the
same
reasons,
but
we're
working.
I.
Think
I
mentioned
this
on
the
space
I'm
looking
at
code
spaces
I'm,
hoping
that
this
is
what
we're
looking
for.
So
we
can
make
it
super
easy
for
somebody
to
just
start
everything
up.
C
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D
To
do
I
like
to
do
this
for
several
reasons.
The
first
one
is
because
imagine
what
will
happen
if
everything
was
closed,
Source,
absolutely
everything
there
will
be
no
share
of
acknowledge
whatsoever,
so
things
that
we're
building
now
within
a
couple
months.
It
might
take
us
maybe
decades
to
get
there
right
yeah,
including
funnels
there
like
I'm,
using
a
lot
of
Open
Source
tool
to
build
this,
because
it's
open
source,
which
is
shortening
my
time
to
Market
I
hope
that
makes
sense.
A
D
At
the
same
time,
I
think
it's
it's
a
good.
It's
a
good
business
too.
That's
a
reality.
The
reality
is
that
I'm
closer
to
the
Developers
I'm
closer
to
the
community
I
can
give
you
tons
of
value
up
from,
but
a
few
people
will
that
certainly
will
go
back
because
they
might
have
a
different
use
case
or
maybe
maybe
they
want
help
with
their
infrastructure
deployment.
So
that's
also
good
for
sustainability
of
the
project.
So.
C
C
Building
building
your
project
in
public
is
one
of
the
best
ways
to
make
sure
it's
quality
and
connect
with
developers.
Bakari
is
suggesting
that
maybe
you
might
want
to
connect
with
Agora
because
their
software
defined
because
they
have
a
software-defined,
real-time
Network
I,
don't
know
too
much
about
Agora,
but
I
guess
they
have
some
kind
of
communications
API
or
something
like
that.
Someone
said
any
plans
to
support
SMS
I
think
you
mentioned
that.
D
Yeah,
so
in
fact
we
this
actually
this
week,
I
connected
with
a
company
that
came
into
something
real,
quick
here:
okay,
so
I
connected
with
a
company
called
Telecom
stack
because
SMS
until
now
was
super
challenging.
It's
just
super
mysterious
the
way
it
worked,
but
I
found
a
path.
In
fact,
in
my
Twitter
yesterday
that
I
show
a
quick
demo
and
it's
not
how
the
API
is
going
to
look
like,
but
it
gives
you
an
idea
that
it's
not
going
to
be
that
difficult.
C
C
D
This
okay,
this
one,
the
two
hottest
question
for
so
for
the
first
one,
I'm
gonna
tell
you
but
I,
don't
even
know
if
you're
gonna
recognize
this,
so
I
like
mango
and
mangu
is
smash
contains.
But
it's
it's
crazy
because
you
have
to
know
it's
not
just
smash
Mountain,
you
gotta
know
how
to
make
them.
You
know
how
to
remove
like
cold
water
and
what
food,
hot
water.
D
C
What
great
choices
I
think
I
know
what
mango
is?
It
sometimes
has
like
onions
on
top
of
it
now
Latina
vinyl
some
Caribbean
some
stuff,
because
I'm
Caribbean
someone
said,
could
you
please
expand
on
monetizing,
open
source
software?
I?
Don't
know
if
that's
really
the
topic,
but
do
you
want
to
ever
talk
about
that
today?.
D
Yeah
for
sure
so
I
can
give
you
a
brief
because
you're
right,
maybe
there
might
be
another
another
better
place
to
kind
of
discuss
this,
but
in
reality,
is
we're
going
for
the
ass
model,
alongside
with
the
open
sides.
That's
like
the
short
answer
to
it,
even
the
demos
that
I
show
you
today,
those
are
that's
like
the
MVP
or
the
funnel
certain
Cloud,
so
we're
building
we're
building
the
open
source
Community
we
have
everything
we
have
is
open
source.
D
C
I
love
it
and
I'm,
always
here
for
maintainers
figuring
out
how
to
make
money
or
figuring
out
their
different
business
models
and
open
source,
because
it's
like
this
big
misconception
that
it's
it
has
to
be
free.
So
thank
you.
Thank
you
for
sharing
this
Pedro.
For
honestly,
the
demos
were
on
point
I
know
everybody
was
super
excited
to
see
what
you've,
developed
and
I'm
going
to
continue
to
follow
like
your
journey
and
continue
to
see,
fonister,
grow
and
I
would
love
to
to
give
you
the
hook
up
on
on
code
spaces.
D
C
E
C
D
C
Those
are
those
are
good
ones
and
then
she,
her
new
recent
album
I
like
Virgo's
Groove,
like
she
just
came
out
with
an
album
and
there's
a
song
on
there
called
Virgo's
group.
That
I
think
is
really
good.
Oh
someone
said:
do
you
have
any
plans
on
doing
more
SDK
or
or
creating
an
SDK
in
more
languages?
Aside
from
JavaScript.
D
Yes,
absolutely
that's
a
good
question,
so
the
core
of
finals.
There
is
Bill
using
grpc
and
so
we're
looking
at
streamlining,
we're,
making
it
easy
for
you
to
generate
your
own
apis
in
whatever
language.
So
that
is
definitely
something
it's
not
I
didn't
put
it
on
the
road
map,
so
it
might
take.
I
might
take
a
quarter
or
two
before
we
get
to
that,
but
it's
certainly
something
we
know
we
want
to
have
a
sooner
rather
than
later,.
C
Awesome
awesome
all
right
y'all,
so
thank
you
for
tuning
in
to
this
stream.
I
really
loved.
It
don't
forget
to
go
ahead
and
maybe
starve
honest
there
on
GitHub
at
github.com
and
if
you're
interested
in
contributing
you
can
find
Pedro
on
Twitter
at
Pedro,
Sanders
underscore
and
I'm
gonna
say
it's
Sanders
right,
not
like
son
yeah,.