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New comment by rplevy in "TestVoice – Buy a number, build an IVR or Voice Agent testbed in minutes"

rplevy — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:29:04 +0000

A friend built this service to solve the following problem: if you’ve ever built a voice agent or chatbot that needs to call into real phone systems, you know how painful testing can be. https://testvoice.ai/ makes that process simple. You can buy a real phone number, build dialplans visually, and make or record real calls in just a few minutes.

It’s designed for developers working on voice AI or IVR traversal. You can map call flows, test how your agent handles prompts, and verify latency or routing. All from a web interface. Under the hood it runs on Freeswitch , postgres, python/ Fastapi, and nextjs, and includes features like call recording, versioned dialplans, and IVR traversal testing.

TestVoice – Buy a number, build an IVR or Voice Agent testbed in minutes

rplevy — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:29:04 +0000

Article URL: https://testvoice.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45644301

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by rplevy in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)"

rplevy — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 19:35:30 +0000

Location: San Francisco

Remote: Open to Remote or Local

Willing to relocate: most likely no

Technologies: Clojure, ClojureScript, Node.js, Javascript

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FOqegZEXraugbl4eL7Gl0uuEnYZ...

Email: rplevy at gmail

New comment by rplevy in "Inside the Saudi 9/11 Coverup"

rplevy — Sun, 15 Dec 2013 21:25:49 +0000

Importantly, both Awlaki and his teenage son who was later targeted in another drone strike, were both American citizens. You can argue as much as you like in favor of the joys of murder and assassination as a way of organizing the world, but there is no conceivable argument that this is constitutional.

New comment by rplevy in "Bitcoin for the Befuddled – Our fancy new book and website"

rplevy — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 04:59:49 +0000

Cicada 3301 is fascinating. Taken at face value (and that's a huge assumption to make) it appears to be a self-styled "cypherpunk freemasonry" of sorts. Care to cite or summarize the evidence and case for a satoshi/cicada link (other than "hey wouldn't that be so awesome if...")?

New comment by rplevy in "Introducing HipHip (Array): Fast and flexible numerical computation in Clojure"

rplevy — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 18:28:39 +0000

I don't know why no one has answered this (it is brought up a few places in this thread) but if I had to guess why they didn't want to go this route I would say it's the trade-off of not not having your data be native. They presumably have a somewhat highly involved pipeline/topology of computations that data flows through. In the interests of good readable and maintainable code, having a nice declarative data representation is a big plus, and doing the computation with native Java data structures is apparently fast enough for their needs.

New comment by rplevy in "Pedestal: An open source tool set for building web applications in Clojure"

rplevy — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 05:06:46 +0000

> Adding data-structures to a Lisp ruins it.

By this standard, Common Lisp is a "ruined" Lisp. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp#Data_structures

In Clojure the data structures work consistently across the language, which to me is one of many reasons why Clojure is a better Lisp than Common Lisp (but CL has its place).

> Moreover, those Lisp experts I have learned from didn't even mention Clojure.

On the contrary, Clojure is and has since its inception been praised and often adopted by prominent users of Scheme and Common Lisp (the list is too long, but for example the late Daniel Weinreb declared Clojure the future of Lisp). The Clojure conference in Portland this last few days is a perfect example of the cross-fertilization between the Racket/Scheme logic programming subcultures and the Clojure logic programming subcultures.

New comment by rplevy in "Pedestal: An open source tool set for building web applications in Clojure"

rplevy — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:29:50 +0000

Datomic is not the default (it's database agnostic-- you can use any data store or no data store).

New comment by rplevy in "Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to start saying Yes""

rplevy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:45:45 +0000

This whole "I used the language for 2 weeks so now I am qualified to change it radically" attitude is well-established in the Lisp community (yes I know Steve Yegge is a veteran lisper, but this still applies, especially to some of the other commenters). The authority on this is Brucio, the fictional author of "Lisp at Light Speed" http://replay.web.archive.org/20080722232746/http://brucio.b... Bruce's First Law of Lisp is "If it does not do exactly what you expect with zero hours consideration or experience, it is a bug in Lisp that should be fixed."

New comment by rplevy in "Steve Yegge v. Rich Hickey re: "Clojure just needs to start saying Yes""

rplevy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:18:47 +0000

"what constitutes a compilation unit, i.e., a pass over what?"

So, how is this compilation unit different from all other compilation units?

New comment by rplevy in "The JavaScript Age"

rplevy — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:31:16 +0000

I agree, JavaScript development can be maddening, even with (and because of!) helpful plug-ins like Firebug. Lispers spoiled by swank/slime in emacs may like https://github.com/ivan4th/swank-js as a JavaScript dev environment.

New comment by rplevy in "Hacker news gets 40% off on Eloquent JavaScript"

rplevy — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:44:33 +0000

The ebook is already free, but buy the book from No Starch to cut out the middleman.

New comment by rplevy in "Has Clojure development stalled?"

rplevy — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:38:44 +0000

It surprises me that important contributors like technomancy would not have some additional priority or clout. Without leiningen I doubt we would see one tenth of the explosion of interesting activity going on in the community. That said, I don't think anyone would like the results of democracy.