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I just called your voice demo, and immediately started sending the number to my friends. What an incredibly impressive and convincing demo. I'm going to update my standard mentoring wisdom: the only thing more compelling than a great product video is a phone number that you can call to have your first voice conversation with an AI.

If HN allowed memes - and thank goodness that it does not - there would be a room full of sombre gentlemen slow-clapping for you right here.

I hope that number survives the ineveitable deluge. How many callers can your system handle simultaneously?



Thank you!! Really glad you enjoyed it

We actually have no clue... but it seems to be holding up well. We can scale up the CPU as necessary but not sure about Twilio. I guess we will find out!


I’m getting “We’re sorry: an application error has occurred”. I’m guessing you’ve hit some scaling friction.


Yep we're definitely getting a large volume right now – working on it!


It will drop me with no notice but it was still a glimpse into the future once you get past the flashbacks to bad customer service automated support lines. If though the way it says "mems" instead of "memes" irked me for some reason.


Where's the demo number? Can't seem to find it?


In the main post! It's +1-650-729-9536 :)


Yes, that was a great idea on OP's part.




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