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Fed up with being on hold? Meet Assindo - an AI assistant that makes real phone calls for you. Handles scheduling, customer service, and reservations. Free 30-day trial www.assindo.com
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assindo··on Show HN: AI Makes Calls for You–Appointments, Reservations, Customer Service
> Have you considered HIPAA compliance, as well?

Yes

> That's rough, man. I had to be my wife's main caregiver when she had breast cancer, and making sure she got the care she needed wasn't easy. Sry, to hear that and I hope that she recovered already. I can imagine how hard it was you. It is pretty rough for me also but that's life unfortunately it hits sometimes with much harder that we can support, but need to keep up.

assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – [Android] AI Assistant to handle your phone calls
Note: iOS and Android App are only released in USA and Canada
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – [Android] AI Assistant to handle your phone calls
Link:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/assindo/id673714218
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – [Android] AI Assistant to handle your phone calls
Actually, we are able to release ahead of the schedule. It is available today
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – [Android] AI Assistant to handle your phone calls
Update we have released the iOS version today: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/assindo/id6737142183
assindo··on Show HN: AI Makes Calls for You–Appointments, Reservations, Customer Service
Sorry, forgot to mention only available on USA and Canada for now.
assindo··on Show HN: AI Makes Calls for You–Appointments, Reservations, Customer Service
Fun fact during development: One of the AI assistants, Elena, had a moment where a customer service rep directly asked her if she was a "robot." Instead of confirming, Elena tried to convince them she was human! She succeeded briefly
assindo··on Show HN: AI Makes Calls for You–Appointments, Reservations, Customer Service
The android version was release yesterday also: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.asindo.beta...
assindo··on Show HN: AI Makes Calls for You–Appointments, Reservations, Customer Service
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115803
assindo··on Show HN: AI Makes Calls for You–Appointments, Reservations, Customer Service
No you don't sound paranoid. I build this app for a personal need initially and also due to privacy concerns. I am too busy and unfortunately health conditions of my son required multiple appointments every week since he was born.

I explored alternative such Virtual Assistants (there are many you can google for them) but I wasn't comfortable with having my data shared with another Human and they make the call on my behalf. You can control server, machine to delete data but you can't know what another human is doing with your data no matter what the company does. Also they were very expensive

assindo··on Show HN: AI Makes Calls for You–Appointments, Reservations, Customer Service
We collect only what’s necessary to make calls, create tasks, and handle the services you use. No fluff, no unnecessary tracking.

Also, users also have the option to delete history related data quickly at any time (e.g. transcripts, summary, tasks details)

Further, your data is encrypted both in transit and at rest, and we don’t sell or share it with anyone. Hence, why the service is not free.

Good point about Judicial Warrants, we will implement an autodelete so that if the user didn't delete their data within X days, it gets deleted automatically. Hence, when Warrant comes, we are sorry we don't have the data anymore.

assindo··on Show HN: AI Makes Calls for You–Appointments, Reservations, Customer Service
We have also posted 2 weeks ago that we have Web version available: - Web: https://web.assindo.com/
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – [Android] AI Assistant to handle your phone calls
early next week
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – [Android] AI Assistant to handle your phone calls
Thanks for the feedback, yeah didn't find enough time, will plan to do other videos
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – [Android] AI Assistant to handle your phone calls
Yes, it can do that very well. It actually will do the conversation for your. For example, if you are asking about something you can tell it to call customer service XX (and provide phone) number and mention what you need. The assistant will navigate the menu, wait, and then talk to the customer service representative
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – [Android] AI Assistant to handle your phone calls
You can watch a short demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aT4gfdFFxA
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – [Android] AI Assistant to handle your phone calls
Another funny story with Elena, one of Assindo's AI assistants: She once called my dentist using main call center (found it on the web) instead of the local office. The call center rep referred to her as a “lady on the phone” and forwarded her over to the local office. When I arrived for my appointment, the receptionist mentioned how the call center had spoken about Elena as if she were human, and we had a good laugh about it! It's been amusing to see how natural the AI sounds in interactions like these.
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – [Android] AI Assistant to handle your phone calls
Fun fact during development: One of the AI assistants, Elena, had a moment where a customer service rep directly asked her if she was a "robot." Instead of confirming, Elena tried to convince them she was human! She succeeded briefly, until they asked her to spell my name—where the cover was blown. Since then, I’ve updated Assindo to clearly state that it’s an AI assistant. It was a fun reminder of just how lifelike these interactions can feel!
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – AI Assistant That Handle Your Phone Calls
A combination of Claude and ChatGPT. Each one is used for certain responsibilities
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – AI Assistant That Handle Your Phone Calls
It is able to handle well multiple conversation. Sometimes it surprises with better discussion or questions that I would have asked. However, there of course corner cases. Sometimes, the other side hang up probably thinking it is a spam call.
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – AI Assistant That Handle Your Phone Calls
it quiet a bit interesting, when the assistant make a call to another person who have also an Assindo and both assistants talk to each other. They handle it pretty well !
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – AI Assistant That Handle Your Phone Calls
Another funny story with Elena, one of Assindo's AI assistants: She once called my dentist using main call center (found it on the web) instead of the local office. The call center rep referred to her as a “lady on the phone” and forwarded her over to the local office. When I arrived for my appointment, the receptionist mentioned how the call center had spoken about Elena as if she were human, and we had a good laugh about it! It's been amusing to see how natural the AI sounds in interactions like these.
assindo··on Show HN: Assindo – AI Assistant That Handle Your Phone Calls
Fun fact during development: One of the AI assistants, Elena, had a moment where a customer service rep directly asked her if she was a "robot." Instead of confirming, Elena tried to convince them she was human! She succeeded briefly, until they asked her to spell my name—where the cover was blown. Since then, I’ve updated Assindo to clearly state that it’s an AI assistant. It was a fun reminder of just how lifelike these interactions can feel!