I'm working on a tool to do evals for voice agents. The way it works is that you simply post your recordings, tools, instructions, etc and we do a diff to spot if something changes, then we mark a note on the change and run evals.
The main idea is that you don't need to configure anything, simply send us the data and we should figure out evals for you.
If anyone is building with realtime voice send me an email at username at Gmail and I'll try to help you improve your tool for free (In exchange I get to talk to real users)
Hi everyone, this is a very early version of what I am building: an AI accountability coach.
I know many of you will be skeptic, but in reality one of the hardest things to do is to remember to keep track of progress. A simple automation which calls me after my gym sessions and logs everything in a virtual diary could be a great help.
It's built using elevenlabs, twilio, openai (for the extraction logic) and gemini (for the call).
It's still a beta as I have some fixing to do, but it's free for the first 30 days, so feel free to try it and share your feedback with me!
I'm an entrepreneur and since I'm not breakeven yet I'm looking for part-time work. Rather than coding I would like to help with marketing. I'm fairly good with Google ads, landing pages, seo etc.
The biggest issue I have with MCP is that some companies like notion expect every single user to host and run their own MCP. It would be so much easier for everyone if they would simply host it themselves and give access on MCP.notion.so like stripe and others do.
I'm building https://rispose.com which is a tool to embed chatgpt on any site.
It's super cheap and it's growing nicely.
Rispose is the first tool I build which isn't tightly coupled on another provider.
I can easily swap OpenAI for another provider or even host my AI. This IMO is something really interesting and something before was relay hard to achieve (most tools are built on top of bigger platforms).
Airbnb is, in my opinion, one of the companies with the biggest negative societal impact.
Airbnb complementary destroyed some great places and rural cities around the world, because of them:
- Food/Restaurant prices go up
- Food/Restaurant quality goes down
- Real estate price goes up
- Dirtiness goes up
- Bugs and other animals thrive
- Quality of shops goes down, everything is disposable
- Quality of building/materials goes down, why install a wooden window if it's for an airbnb?
You could argue that it's not because of Airbnb but because of tourism, but I don't think so, Hotels are heavily regulated, they have strict cleaning rules, max occupancy and are built to host a certain amount of people, mass tourism wouldn't be possible without Airbnb.
Airbnb is great for smaller places though. I was looking at some smaller Italian cities and there are mostly traditional b&b's, plus a couple of hotels. So the Airbnb's blend in well, and I think it is too small to really destroy the city itself.
> mass tourism wouldn't be possible without Airbnb.
Have you not travelled before Airbnb is a thing in a place? There were always similar alternatives?
The blame game with Airbnb is the most ridiculous thing ever.
Completely unfounded to try to blame so many things such as the housing crisis. Oh, that is just Airbnb. Just ignore that you still have problems due to taxes, government policies in places where there's virtually no Airbnb offera.
Hotels being regulated generally means nothing in places where there's a lot of tourism because you still get extremely poor services and experiences at times and Airbnb and other similar BnB services (this is not new, come on, is everyone <30 years old?) have provided much needed competition improving quality, which has otherwise been going downward steadily (cleaning, breakfast, bathrooms, etc).
You seem to dislike supply so youd problably want to ban low cost airlines so that less of the "rubble/mass tourists" would travel, right?
There is a massive difference between a bed-and-breakfast and what AirBnB offers. Old-style B&Bs are (family) businesses, open all year round, and registered with tourism entities, much like a hotel.
Vacation home rentals have been a thing for decades. As far back as the 1980s my family would book houses for vacation, usually in areas where lots of houses booked out that way.
In vacation destinations there are real estate companies that specialize in this. In the old days you would contact the local chamber of commerce for a referral, or look them up in the phone book. After that, there were websites like VRBO (still around, still works well). Now they put their stock onto AirBnB as well.
AirBnB did not invent short-term rentals. The parent is right that housing supply issues have a much deeper root cause than AirBnB.
Vacation rentals are just as far from what AirBnB (originally) offered as a B&B. Usually handled by a property manager, entire home, nice location / popular holiday destinations and facilities as it is someone's second property. Much higher prices. This is a far cry from an "air bed" in a corner of a standard urban family apartment in São Paulo, which you'd find by the thousands in the early years before regulations caught up.
I think you're underestimating how much AirBnB as a platform opened up this market to the average traveller, including business travel, and yes, absolutely contributed to the housing crisis, though I wasn't even making a point about that.
Experience wise for the customer, because I've been in both, not that much. Also there's a lot of Airbnb that are family businesses and BnBs that aren't so that's just a romantic moot point.
There's interest in painting these strawmen by people who didn't use the service or just tried to get cheap stuff and didn't pick good places, which can happen with booking.com or google maps. The govs love blaming their failings on apps and regulations mean market capture by certain entities.
It's funny how you can call for Airbnb's to be banned to solve the housing crisis but you can't call for stopping hotels being built everywhere which are then used to house refugees/socially disadvantage people in a beautiful money making cycle for government contractors, to just name one thing happening in at least a few European countries.
I run a small but fairly successful "embed chatGPT on your site" widget https://rispose.com
I'm acquiring customers by:
- Offer a 100% free unlimited solution (with branding) I get a lot of daily clicks from people coming from my customer's website
- Offer a really good price. My competitors are about 5X more expensive. I'll eventually maybe raise my price, but for now I have a lot of people switching to my tool
- Affiliates. This is something new I'm still testing.
In summary a good free product which links back to you get's you millions of requests per month!
I've seen a number of products like this and I'm somewhat curious: how do you handle the security side of things? Do you have a server to shield the API keys and proxy all requests?
The main idea is that you don't need to configure anything, simply send us the data and we should figure out evals for you.
If anyone is building with realtime voice send me an email at username at Gmail and I'll try to help you improve your tool for free (In exchange I get to talk to real users)