Finished Building an AI Caller, Unsure About Launching – Advice?
I made an AI caller, where one can talk with AI on a phone number.
Had tweaked it to a use case: where I can delegate the AI to call someone on my behalf & hold the conversation.
Once the call is done, it summarizes the conversation & sends it to my WhatsApp/Slack/other.
Example,
- Call friendName and see if he is available to meet at X time at Y Place on Z date.
- Call employee1 and check if has completed task1 & task2? Check what is he planning to finish this week.
Not sure, if this would be useful for others & is it a good idea to pursue.
Do you think I should launch this?
Why don't I launch it already and check? I have built the code, but it doesn't have Login/Signup and other boilerplate stuff.
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nice! What's the tone like, does it sound like a robot or does it have varying tones and pauses like a human would? Also, adding an option to clone their own voice would be a great feature or additional product to add as an option.
For the voice part, I am using elevenlabs, so it is quite good. Can offer voice cloning using elevenlabs API.
Hmm... I wonder if you are interested in shifting to B-side development, such as conference AI robots, AI telemarketing robots, AI food delivery communication robots, and many other scenarios that require phone communication
I can enable it to do all of those. Who should be the right person I should connect with if I want to market it to such businesses? Founder? CMO?
Usually, at the beginning, it involves finding the email addresses of these companies to send marketing emails, offering free trial options. After generating revenue, the next step is to build your own sales team.
If you have enough of an idea to test in the wild, then yes you should launch it. Sounds like you need to make a few tweaks to make that possible but that shouldn't take you too much time. It's generally best to start with some people in your orbit that will give you candid feedback. Test and iterate. You may find that people don't pick up the phone but maybe a sms text version would work better. Entrepreneurs are generally only OK at predicting what people will want/use. Give users enough of a function to mess around with and they will tell you where to go with it (or not go with it).
Yes, I am getting the code wrapped around with authentication and other boilerplate stuff & launching it soon to get more actionable feedback.
I love this. Have you looked into setting it up on event listeners and an API to receive and answer calls, rather than place them? There are a ton of legal questions raising around AI "robo calling" but it doesn't appear anyone is complaining about inbound reception AI. If the dumb prerecorded automated answering services could intelligently field and connect calls, it would make good instantly on all the broken promises of automated reception services.
Probably a ton of enterprise traction to be gotten there if you can find product market fit. 🤷🏻♂️
Just a thought! Great stuff, would love to check it out when you're ready to share!
Very interesting idea. Haven't thought about this use case where AI receives the call and talks on behalf of you.
Would try this out.
I think I will wrap the current code around a boilerplate and launch it soon here on IH.
Thanks!
Well if it works like you described it only make sense to add basic signup and beta test. Post the link here, I'm sure many of us would want to check it out!
Good idea. Will get this done.
Try to approach the call center. There are a lot of call centers in China making pre-recorded calls to prospective customers but all the calls are not customized - don't even call the name etc.
Interesting idea. But currently, I have support for English language only.
Love the creativity. Is it live yet?
Nope. I'll push it to production and post it here on IH.
#1 I'm building Meet Fast for this to agree on the date/time. No AI, just old school forms.
#2 I had the same idea about delegating work and asking about the results until it's not done. This is quite useful in my job.
These 2 sound like 2 separate projects to me. Go lunch both!
For #2, how many times a day do you imagine yourself using this?
At least 1
Thanks. I'll send you a link to the demo soon :)
Thank you! But I don't think I can use it at work due to the legal questions...
Very Useful Got Some clarification ! Thanks