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Vapi
Company blog · vapi.ai/blogaiprogramming
Vapi is the company blog at vapi.ai, writing about ai and programming. Since 2024, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Vapi AI”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Vapi as a platform for building AI voice agents that make phone calls, and cite its post on raising uptime from 99.9% to 99.99%. None of the comments judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Build, test, and deploy advanced voice AI agents in minutes with Vapi. The platform for developers creating conversational voice AI.
Most-linked posts?
- Vapi AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-29
What Hacker News says?
Adding to your list: https://vapi.ai -- really nice tools. (I try to keep up with all the different layers/players in this space.)
Comment linking /
on “Show HN: An open source framework for voice assistants”Submitted We Solved Latency at Vapi as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's already happening! I went to https://vapi.ai/vapicon and the stuff that people are already building is bonkers. It would be naive to think that this technology would only be used for good. I have been working on Pion WebRTC for years though and have see lots of stuff getting built that didn't feel great. Not sure what I can do though.
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on “Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores”Submitted Vapi AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt can make/take phone calls[0], but they need to be prompted on the nature of the call, the data they need, and how to collect it. They can also output the results of the call via API. An AI agent from Masterworks recently called me using this technology. [0] https://vapi.ai/
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on “OpenClaw Is Changing My Life”Submitted How We Took Vapi from 99.9% to 99.99% Reliability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA while ago, Vapi.ai was at ~99.9% uptime which was around 8 hours of downtime a year. We set a goal for 99.99% (<1 hour/year), and quickly learned that getting there meant 100 small changes, not one big one. Some highlights from what we did to achieve this goal: - When our primary database on Neon falters, traffic now shifts to Aurora in under five seconds, keeping calls alive. - Every external dependency has a bac…
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on “How We Took Vapi from 99.9% to 99.99% Reliability”