Voice Agents for Non-Tech Startups Pay Better: A Dev's Full IoT Sales Automation Story
According-Invite9092 · reddit · 2026-10-11
A developer with 3 years of SaaS experience shares how he built an AI voice agent at an IoT company: it auto-called inbound leads, used an LLM to score qualifications, and routed leads by salesperson workload and deal value, with quotes sent via WhatsApp CRM integration. Key lessons: he removed 30 unneeded features after using the tool as a real salesperson, and argues building agents for non-tech startups is more lucrative than tech-focused products.
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