We're super excited to finally announce a project we've been working on diligently since the middle of last year!
The BYC EggCell
Background: Over the years we've realized that a HUGE part of what makes BYC the largest and fastest growing community of chicken enthusiasts in the world is the wonderful sociality shared by our members. We've witnessed hundreds, if not thousands, of life long friendships develop on our forum. Unfortunately, textual communication can only do so much. While we all love spending time on the forum typing away to our friends, there is just too much we loose out on by missing tonality in voice communication.
For this reason we've developed and are officially announcing "BYC EggCell"!!!
We were hoping to make the announcement earlier in the year, but wanted to make sure all the patents were finalized.
The final units are still in early stages of production and won't be available for sale until early July. We'll start with a limited production run and will offer the first units to the Golden Feather Members. From there we will offer the phones to the rest of our community based on a calculation of how long you've been a member and how many posts you've made (NOTE: This will not include posts in the "Random Ramblings" section of the site)
In an effort to keep the price of the phone as low as possible, we're working with the BYC Sponsors on a program that will allow them to display super special deals that will only be available for EggCell owners. In exchange for this advertising opportunity the price of the phone will only be about $15! Note: We will have an option for those that don't want to have the advertising to pay the difference.
The phone will be tied to your BYC account so whenever you get a call from a BYC friend their Avatar & username will show up on the screen. If you receive calls from non-BYC members, the phone's caller ID will function like any other cell phone.
BYC EggCell Rate Plan:
Nationwide Local & Long Distance throughout the US and Canada.
$25 - 300 Anytime Minutes / month
$40 - 600 Anytime Minutes / month
$65 - 1,500 Anytime Minutes / month
$105 - Unlimited Anytime Minutes / month
Unlimited BYC member to BYC member calling worldwide.
FREE Night and Weekend Minutes are included with all packages. (Nights and Weekends starting at 6PM)
All phones require a 1 year agreement
Included Calling Features:
Voice Mail
3 Way Conference Calling
Call Waiting
As mentioned above, the final units are still in production, but here is the prototype that I've been using for the past few weeks:
Once the items are available for pre-order we'll send out a note to all the GFMs and then to the entire community.
As always, if you have any questions, please post them here!
The BYC EggCell
Background: Over the years we've realized that a HUGE part of what makes BYC the largest and fastest growing community of chicken enthusiasts in the world is the wonderful sociality shared by our members. We've witnessed hundreds, if not thousands, of life long friendships develop on our forum. Unfortunately, textual communication can only do so much. While we all love spending time on the forum typing away to our friends, there is just too much we loose out on by missing tonality in voice communication.
For this reason we've developed and are officially announcing "BYC EggCell"!!!
We were hoping to make the announcement earlier in the year, but wanted to make sure all the patents were finalized.
The final units are still in early stages of production and won't be available for sale until early July. We'll start with a limited production run and will offer the first units to the Golden Feather Members. From there we will offer the phones to the rest of our community based on a calculation of how long you've been a member and how many posts you've made (NOTE: This will not include posts in the "Random Ramblings" section of the site)
In an effort to keep the price of the phone as low as possible, we're working with the BYC Sponsors on a program that will allow them to display super special deals that will only be available for EggCell owners. In exchange for this advertising opportunity the price of the phone will only be about $15! Note: We will have an option for those that don't want to have the advertising to pay the difference.
The phone will be tied to your BYC account so whenever you get a call from a BYC friend their Avatar & username will show up on the screen. If you receive calls from non-BYC members, the phone's caller ID will function like any other cell phone.
BYC EggCell Rate Plan:
Nationwide Local & Long Distance throughout the US and Canada.
$25 - 300 Anytime Minutes / month
$40 - 600 Anytime Minutes / month
$65 - 1,500 Anytime Minutes / month
$105 - Unlimited Anytime Minutes / month
Unlimited BYC member to BYC member calling worldwide.
FREE Night and Weekend Minutes are included with all packages. (Nights and Weekends starting at 6PM)
All phones require a 1 year agreement
Included Calling Features:
Voice Mail
3 Way Conference Calling
Call Waiting
As mentioned above, the final units are still in production, but here is the prototype that I've been using for the past few weeks:
Once the items are available for pre-order we'll send out a note to all the GFMs and then to the entire community.
As always, if you have any questions, please post them here!
- 2007 - BYC Expanding - BackYardCows.com
- 2008 - BYC Hacked!
- 2009 - Server Upgrade Good News / Bad News: Post Counts Lost
- 2010 - New BYC Store Product - The EggCell!
- 2011 - NEW BYC Program & Partnership - Sell Your Extra Eggs!
- 2012 - New Forum Section - Exotic Backyard Animals
- 2013 - Big Announcement: BYC & Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Partnership - BeakBook
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