CallSitter
bot that answers my calls and wastes scammers' time
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Anyone else get a lot of dumb scam calls?These days I mostly get them on my mobile. I used to just ignore them, but then I got fed up and built a bot that answers my calls and wastes their time.It runs on OpenAI Live 1. Jev classifies each call as spam, scam or genuine and steers the bot accordingly.Works like a charm. All my calls go to the bot now.I can also steer it from Telegram mid-call.In this one the bot ended up accusing the scammer of being an AI :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpuTzRg8_fU
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HN · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 37%)
- Security
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Commercial product
Similar launches
See all 252 similar launches →Could you build this?
Yes Connecting inbound phone calls via Twilio to OpenAI's Realtime/Voice API to waste telemarketers' time is a well-documented weekend integration project.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Answering calls verifies active number and increases spam, Automated dialers bypass engagement tactics, Repository returned a 404 error
Feature requests: Answer calls as a fake business to trick data brokers
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 252 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #114 of 253 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 352 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Call Screener · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- answer4me · ph · 2026-09-30 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Sato Bot · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- BotForCreators · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- ClawCall · ph · 2026-10-08 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Squelch · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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- External ID
- 50140472
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- CallSitter
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.63
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- AI summary
- call answering bot to waste phone scammers' time
- Manually corrected
- No