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Opened Vapi.

Pasted a prompt.

Posted “We built a 24/7 AI receptionist that books appointments.”

No tools. No calendar. Can’t even book the thing they advertised.

This sub is slowly turning into cosplay for people who discovered voice AI last Tuesday.

If your agent dies the second someone tries to schedule something, you don’t have a product. You have a broken demo and a coping mechanism.

so my boss (the owner) watches the cameras pretty much 24/7 and will call me if he thinks i’m not talking to customers enough. the thing is, a lot of the people who come into our bar, especially couples, are there to have a drink and spend time with each other. i don’t want to be the bartender who’s constantly interrupting private conversations just to force small talk.

i’m always attentive, i’ll greet people, check in on them, joke around if they’re open to it, and if someone wants to chat i’ll happily have a conversation. but i also feel like part of good service is reading the room and knowing when people just want to be left alone.
how do i explain that to my boss without sounding like i’m just trying to avoid talking to customers? or am i looking at this the wrong way?

so my boss (the owner) watches the cameras pretty much 24/7 and will call me if he thinks i’m not talking to customers enough. the thing is, a lot of the people who come into our bar, especially couples, are there to have a drink and spend time with each other. i don’t want to be the bartender who’s constantly interrupting private conversations just to force small talk.

i’m always attentive, i’ll greet people, check in on them, joke around if they’re open to it, and if someone wants to chat i’ll happily have a conversation. but i also feel like part of good service is reading the room and knowing when people just want to be left alone.
how do i explain that to my boss without sounding like i’m just trying to avoid talking to customers? or am i looking at this the wrong way?

I needed my agents to ingest webpages without burning tokens on HTML parsing, so I built a scraping platform which strips pages down to clean mark down plus a hierarchical link tree so your agent can browse and reason.

what it does:
/read → page → markdown + metadata + cleaned HTML

/links → page → full link topology (internal, external, social)

No credit system. No usage tiers. Just an API that works.

Why it's different from Firecrawl:
- Runs on Cloudflare Workers (no headless browser overhead for HTML pages → 5-10x faster)
- Entire stack is open source: dashboard, workers, auth, all of it
- Outputs are specifically optimized for LLM token budgets

try it out on the site, or npm i squidcrawl, npx create-squidcrawl, or hit the API at api.squidcrawl.dev