Show HN: CallSitter, a bot that answers calls and wastes scammers' time
szert · hn · 2026-10-18
A developer shared CallSitter on HN, a personal project that auto-answers phone calls and wastes scammers' time.
- Built on OpenAI Live; a classifier labels each call as spam, scam, or genuine and steers the bot accordingly
- The author now routes all calls to the bot and can intervene mid-call via Telegram
- In the demo video, the bot ends up accusing the scammer of being an AI
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