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I built an LLM powered receptionist for website chats

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I built Receptionst after noticing a pattern across my own projects. Visitors would open the website chat widget, ask a question and leave before I could answer. If it happened during deep work I missed it. If it happened overnight I never saw it at all. It became obvious that I could not respond instantly which meant I was losing leads without realizing it.I wanted something lightweight that acted like a receptionist by giving instant LLM powered answers based on my own content and by collecting lead details when visitors showed intent. I kept the scope narrow so setup is simple. You connect your site, add the info you want it to know and it starts responding with context from your docs, pricing pages and FAQs.I am happy to answer questions about the tech choices, the prompting, or the things I would do differently.

HN · launched Nov 24, 2025 · 11 upvotes (top 46%) · 0 views

Niche: ai chatbots and conversational agents · 372 launches, 28 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • B2B
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Yes This is a straightforward embeddable JavaScript chat widget backed by an LLM API call with custom website context, well within standard vibe-coding capabilities.

Discussion

6 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: other assistants

Concerns raised: sign in with Google not working in Safari, features currently minimal

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 245 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #102 of 246 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 25 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Chatlyfy · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
  • gemini-bridge · github · 2026-10-14 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Chatway · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Concierge · hn · 2025-11-04 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Reception.ai · ph · 2026-09-17 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Integral Showings · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • Hostly · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • LucidChat AI · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40

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