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Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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156 points Sean-Der | 1 comments | 12 Oct 25 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

Alt link: https://mrchristmas.com/products/santas-magical-telephone

Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7QJxZWFQg

The first time I talked with AI santa and it responded with a joke I was HOOKED. The fun/nonsense doesn't click until you try it yourself. What's even more exciting is you can build it yourself:

libpeer: https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer

pion: https://github.com/pion/webrtc

Then go do all your fun logic in your Pion server. Connect to any Voice AI provider, or roll your own via Open Source. Anything is possible.

If you have questions or hit any roadblocks I would love to help you. I have lots of hardware snippets on my GitHub: https://github.com/sean-der.

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fukka42 ◴[13 Oct 25 22:23 UTC] No.45573970[source]▶
> Generous Talk Time: 60 minutes of talk time included, and additional minutes are available for purchase for extended holiday entertainment throughout the season

So the thing costs a 100 dollars and then you can only use it for an hour before needing to pay more?

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turtletontine ◴[13 Oct 25 22:32 UTC] No.45574042[source]▶
I think the bet is that kids are quite good at begging and pestering their parents to spend money on things, and kids will want to talk to Santa for more than 60 minutes. Just my guess
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1. hattmall ◴[13 Oct 25 23:08 UTC] No.45574298[source]▶
Idk, I feel like the overlap of kids that want to talk to Santa and have the attention span to play with a single toy for 60 minutes is narrow. I'm a lot more concerned with Santa promising gifts that don't arrive!