Show HN: ByePhone- An AI assistant to automate tedious phone calls
byephone.ioI have a bit of phone anxiety, and have a ton of dread around making phone calls to restaurants, banks, doctors, and so on and on.
I thought: AI could do this with a web form turned into a prompt.
Stack started out simple -> using 11labs for voice + claude + twillio, but it actually got rather complex (even though I tried vibe coding most).
First off, finding the phone numbers quickly is hard. This is done by scraping the web with some basic duckduckgo search and structure with openai calls.
Second, collecting the right information. I’m still struggling a bit with this but the architecture is that: A) user puts in call objective and business name B) if keywords are detected spin up one of the default form categories C) if not, get structured json from gpt-4o-mini and turn into react form
The cost of making a single call spun out of control, but luckily sonnet can handle a lot of the calls and I’m ok paying for twillio.
Ended up taking months to build my week-long project because of course.
It’s still WIP so feel free to email me: galcohavy@ucla.edu with any ideas or issues u ran into.
\ Still on roadmap: scheduling phone calls, and changing your agent voice beyond just gender should be done within a few days