truthfultemporarily

Are you trying to learn how this works or just need a landline?

If you just need a landline, the ISP will give it to you. It’s voip anyway most of the way. Just plug regular phone into router done. Maybe needs to be a proper voip phone in which case your ISP will give you connection details. Usually that connects to a voip server running in your router.

I worked at a voip provider so I want to mention: this is not a “set it and forget it”. This is something requiring regular maintenance with pretty strict regulations from the providers side. Like email, most consumer ISPs are very wary about people self hosting it.

If you are “pretty new to networking” this is not the project to start with, because it requires solid networking fundamentals.

If you really want to go anyway, well… You need something like kamailio. You set that up, get a voip phone that you have to program to register itself. Plan a couple weekends for this because those docs are not for the faint hearted and you probably have to read the source to understand it.

Forward SIP and RTP from the internet to your server (do you have a static ip?). Then you need to find a provider that gives you a number and is willing to have residential connect to it. Then you hope your ISP is not blocking those ports.

Then you should set up some kind of monitoring system because those providers are pretty flaky and will tell you stuff is working when, in fact, it’s not.

I’m not talking about slop games, I’m talking about giving single dev games a chance. Even successful single dev games make maybe 140000k which is 70k on your bank account. Having 18k more would make a massive difference for those games.

They don’t have to vet anything, just make the first 50k free.

They could definitely lower their 30% cut for indie devs. Even just making the first 50k free would be huge (epic takes no cut for the first million).