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Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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156 points Sean-Der | 3 comments | 12 Oct 25 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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zephyreon ◴[14 Oct 25 01:28 UTC] No.45575266[source]▶
My biggest concern with a toy like this is that my future kid might ask for a water park in our backyard and then Santa would respond with an enthusiastic “That’s a great idea Kyle! I’ll consult with the elves to see how I can make it happen!”
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1. prawn ◴[14 Oct 25 03:01 UTC] No.45575805[source]▶
I had an app idea that was effectively this Walmart product but Santa was always in a blizzard and/or hard of hearing, and continuously misconstrued requests. "What?! You want to order bark?" Idea being that kids love nonsense, but also the scenario pointed towards kids not expecting anything to be a real request.
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2. Sean-Der ◴[14 Oct 25 13:31 UTC] No.45579823[source]▶
lol I love that.

My kids would find it so funny hearing Santa doubling down on bringing the wrong toy.

3. butlike ◴[14 Oct 25 19:26 UTC] No.45583772[source]▶
This is the better product.