Small business and freelance operations
AI phone receptionists & voice agents
Tools that answer or place phone calls with AI voice agents to book appointments, qualify leads, navigate IVR menus, or assist during live calls, plus some adjacent phone utilities like temporary numbers and spam blocking.
Built for: Small service businesses and sales teams
Projects since May 04
142
Different builders
134
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▲ +25%
AI is the core
61%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (30%), mobile app (23%), ai agent or bot (23%) · from r/SideProject, r/SaaS, r/IMadeThis, r/vibecoding
Latest
- ParrotVoice — Lets a computer act as a phone's Bluetooth headset so a voice AI can answer and place calls on the user's existing phone number.“I built a way to let AI answer and make calls on my own phone number. Works with any iPhone call app (WhatsApp, WeChat, FaceTime)”
- Origin — Places translated phone calls to regular phone numbers, translating speech both ways and showing captions on an iPhone.“I built Origin, an iPhone app for translated phone calls”
- VoiceGremlin — Places phone calls to a voice agent via API and reports pass or fail based on a natural-language test prompt.“I built a testing tool that talks to your AI phone bot so you don't have to”
- Answers inbound phone calls over SIP with a voice agent that holds a live spoken conversation.“watching a phone agent answer its first real call”
- Eliza — Answers incoming salon phone calls with a voice AI and books appointments.“I built an AI phone receptionist for salons. Almost every expensive bug was in the plumbing, not the AI.”
- Runs AI-driven text conversations with sales leads from the owner's own phone number, with live takeover and calling from the same number.“I built AI that texts leads from my own phone number and lets me take over the conversation”
- TalkToMe — Lets an AI agent place voice calls to its user so they can talk through tasks and give direction.“I built a way for my AI agent to call me”
- ShieldAI — Blocks spam and unwanted phone calls on Android.“ShieldAI Bloqueador de llamadas de spam - Hazte cargo de tus llamadas”
- NumBan — Extracts the callback number from a scam voicemail, identifies the carrier or organization controlling it, and files abuse reports until the number goes dark.“I built an app that goes after the callback number in scam voicemails, not the spoofed caller ID”
- molebot — Runs a phone-based personal agent that reads messages, calendar and files and nudges the user about unanswered replies, with a waitlist for early access.“Launch a waitlist against meta’s muse on friday. 150+ signups, 20% conversion, zero ad spend. here’s what seems to work and what does not”
- Runs a personal AI agent that handles UPI payments and conversations in Hinglish.“Meta's Muse isn't available in India, so I built a personal AI agent that handles UPI and Hinglish”
- Detects two claps and opens the default Android voice assistant.“I made something...”
- jev-call-router — Routes incoming phone calls to the right department by classifying a caller's spoken intent in plain English, falling back to a live operator on low confidence.“I built a tool that replaces "Press 1 for Sales, 2 for Support" phone trees with natural voice”
- Klikless — Listens to healthcare staff-patient calls in real time and surfaces relevant information for the staff member.“Klikless”
- TalkPilot — Listens to live calls and shows suggested next lines on screen while the conversation is still happening.“Launching my app on Product Hunt Tuesday. Would love feedback before I do! :)”
- Provides temporary phone numbers from over 60 countries that users can receive OTP verification codes on, with temporary email addresses and monthly number rentals also offered.“First app works decently second one flopped”
- DopamineOS — Simulates a fake phone interface with feeds, streaks and markets inside an iPhone app, then goes silent when the phone is put down.“I made a free satirical fake iPhone OS — looking for reactions to the weirdest screens”
- Vestrum — Combines a CRM with auto, progressive and predictive dialers, shift management, appointment scheduling and an built-in email inbox.“A new take on all in one crm”
- The Waiting Room — Simulates a phone customer service hold line with a looping phone tree, a wait estimate that only rises, and minigames during hold.“I made a chill game where you try to reach a human at customer service 😉”
- Sympel — Monitors Yeastar P-Series PBX phone systems on behalf of managed service providers.“Building was easier than finding customers for my B2B-Saas”
Most discussed
- Bailoutt — Places AI-driven fake calls and sends reminders to help users escape unwanted situations.“Made my first sale.”
- Answers phone calls for restaurants and bars using an AI voice agent.“I vibe coded an AI startup to real clients. Then it crashed. Now my team wants to quit”
- Provides a hosted PBX phone system with an Android dialer app and a billing system.“Built my Product but now stuck on getting customers”
- Answers a law firm's overflow and after-hours phone calls with an AI voice agent that collects case details, books, reschedules, or cancels consultations, and emails the team summaries and urgent alerts.“What 8 months of AI-handled intake calls actually looked like”
- Places automated calls with a bot and tracks contacts in a built-in CRM.“3 Month of Work now Waiting game for 1st Customer”
- Calls local service businesses by phone to collect price quotes after a user texts a request, then texts the options back for comparison.“I built a voice AI Agent that can call and obtain quotes on your behalf”
- Answers business phone calls when no one is available and collects the caller's information.“how bad are missed calls actually for small businesses”
- X1-AI — Handles phone calls with AI voice agents that book appointments and converse with customers.“I paused building my first SaaS to pay my bills. It's the hardest thing I've done.”
- Sentinel Factory — Builds a customer-service AI agent from a business URL that answers questions and books appointments via website widget and WhatsApp.“Built an AI agent platform solo in 2 months — paste a URL, get a working agent in 60s”
- Sympel — Monitors Yeastar P-Series PBX phone systems on behalf of managed service providers.“Building was easier than finding customers for my B2B-Saas”