Holdless
We wait on hold with the IRS so you don’t have to
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Reaching a person at the IRS means hours of redial and hold music. Holdless does the waiting and gets the IRS to call you back — then connects you to a live agent. $50 per callback, and you pay only when we schedule one.
PH · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: automated accounting and tax software · 146 launches, 12 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Government
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Finance
- Personal Finance
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Could you build this?
Partial The web frontend and booking flow are trivial, but building reliable telephony infrastructure to handle automated redialing, IVR navigation, hold music detection, and human-agent detection against the IRS phone system is difficult.
What it would actually take: The backend requires Twilio or Telnyx SIP trunks integrated with custom audio processing or speech-recognition pipelines (like whisper or dual-tone audio classifiers) to reliably detect hold music transitions and IRS IVR prompts. The hard part is managing large pools of telephone lines, circumventing IRS automated hangup/blocking heuristics, and instant three-way call handoff when an IRS agent speaks. Telephony infrastructure and signal/audio classification experience are required.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 283 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #74 of 284 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 224 days after the earliest competitor.
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