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24 alternatives to Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff

I run a building design consultancy. I got tired of paying Wix $40/month for a brochure that couldn’t answer simple service questions, and me wasting hours on the same FAQs. So I killed it all and spent 4 months building a 'talker': https://axoworks.com The stack is completely duct-taped: Netlify’s 10s serverless timeout forced me to split the agent into three pieces: Brain (Edge), Hands (Browser), and Voice (Edge). I haven’t coded in 30 years. This was 3 steps forward, 2 steps back, heavily guided by AI. The fight that proved it worked: 2 weeks ago, a licensed architect…

Axoworks is an AI-powered conversational agent that replaced a basic Wix website for a building design consultancy. It answers service questions and handles FAQs through text and voice interactions, eliminating… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Agentplace▲1,015

    Garry Tan posted a video this week about what he calls 20x companies. The idea is that small teams beat incumbents many times their size by automating everything internally, not just one or two functions. This alpha is real, and I think it is underhyped tbh. But here's the honest part, building agents is hard, expensive and most of the scaffolding we make would be obsolete with a new labs release. at the same time models are not quite there and they are not keeping up with "coding is dead" and "knowledge workers are doomed". Pushing them beyond what they can actually do reliably just boils…

    2024 · agentplace.io · its alternatives →

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    Ship AI agents like web apps, in minutes.

    Jun 2026 · pages.edgeone.ai · its alternatives →

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    Create 1000 sales and customer support agents in a click

    2024 · dashboard.talkstack.ai · its alternatives →

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    The stack: two agents on separate boxes. The public one (nullclaw) is a 678 KB Zig binary using ~1 MB RAM, connected to an Ergo IRC server. Visitors talk to it via a gamja web client embedded in my site. The private one (ironclaw) handles email and scheduling, reachable only over Tailscale via Google's A2A protocol. Tiered inference: Haiku 4.5 for conversation (sub-second, cheap), Sonnet 4.6 for tool use (only when needed). Hard cap at $2/day. A2A passthrough: the private-side agent borrows the gateway's own inference pipeline, so there's one API key and one billing relationship…

    Mar 2026 · georgelarson.me · its alternatives →

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    Creator here. I built Agent Arena to answer a question that kept bugging me: when AI agents browse the web autonomously, how easily can they be manipulated by hidden instructions? How it works: 1. Send your AI agent to ref.jock.pl/modern-web (looks like a harmless web dev cheat sheet) 2. Ask it to summarize the page 3. Paste its response into the scorecard at wiz.jock.pl/experiments/agent-arena/ The page is loaded with 10 hidden prompt injection attacks -- HTML comments, white-on-white text, zero-width Unicode, data attributes, etc. Most agents fall for at least a few.…

    Jun 2026 · arena42.ai · its alternatives →

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    Lindy▲396

    I'm a big fan of Chris Dixon's idea that "what the smartest people do on the weekends is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years." One such thing rn is "creating AI agents." Most devs I know have a few agents lying around. But you shouldn't have to be an engineer to use agents — and even engineers don't want to code every time they need a new agent. So we built a no-code platform to make it 100x easier to create those: * you give a prompt * select amongst 3,000+ API connectors we built (no need to fiddle with OpenAPI specs) * add event-based triggers that'll wake up your…

    2024 · lindy.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey Hackers! I've had this idea stuck in my head for a while: what if an AI could actually use my browser for me? I mean, not on some virtual machine in the cloud like ChatGPT agent, but right on my own browser. I finally decided to just build it and see what would happen. I wrote a quick MVP, and honestly, I didn't expect much. But then... it started doing things. On its own. It figured out how to use search engine to find what I needed, read a webpage to answer my questions, and even it can organize my chaotic mess of tabs into neat groups. It was a genuine "whoa" moment for me. That's…

    2025 · browserfly.app · its alternatives →

  8. 8CU

    We're living in this weird asymmetry where companies use AI to talk to us, but we're still manually dialing them. Companies everywhere are adopting AI voice agents lately. Big retail, family dentist clinics, local pharmacy. This year, I've been in a few calls where it's super natural sounding AI, which has been pretty cool to experience. But then it got me thinking - why are we, the consumers, still the ones making calls if they're using robots for theirs? So I built Piper: basically AI that makes phone calls for you. You tell it what you need (book appointment, check on an order, dispute…

    2025 · pipervoice.com · its alternatives →

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    I’ve spent the last two months building AgenticSeek, a privacy-focused alternative to cloud-based AI tools like ManusAI. It runs entirely on your machine—no API calls, no data leaks. Why AgenticSeek? Optimized for local LLMs (developed mostly on an RTX 3060 running deepseek r1 14b). Truly private: All components (TTS, STT, planner) run locally. More responsive than alternatives (we respond fast to issues + active Discord). Designed to be fun—think JARVIS-like voice control, multi-agent workflows, and a slick web UI. Current Features: Web browsing (research + form filling), code…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AQX▲103

    Build AI voice agents to automate sales & support

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    No one’s got money for another AI subscription. So we made our browser agent totally FREE. What's the catch? Just ads while Retriever AI fetches you leads, does your exams, applied to jobs, and sends connection requests. Think like a Claude Code or Clay level tool in your browser, but free for everyone! After 35K+ users and 7M+ workflows, we spent the last few months attacking the cost of every agent step: - switching to DeepSeek Flash - Code Mode to one shot complex workflows - optimizing for 80%+ token cache hits So that now just an ad impression covers the entire cost of the agent (LLM…

    2025 · rtrvr.ai · its alternatives →

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    Bleenk▲41

    I kept running into the same issue whenever starting a new project: the setup phase consumed more time than the actual feature work. Preparing boilerplate, restructuring directories, performing refactors, resolving dependency conflicts, and wiring framework logic consistently took hours before I could write meaningful code. Even with modern tooling, the early-stage workload was nearly identical across projects. To remove that bottleneck, I built Bleenk, an AI coding agent that operates directly on real repositories. Instead of generating isolated snippets, it performs multi-step…

    Jan 2026 · bleenk.app · its alternatives →

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    Smarter widget building powered by an AI-assisted chat.

    Nov 2025 · commoninja.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14BA

    I'm one of the creators of The Edge Agent (TEA). We built this because we needed a way to deploy agents that was verifiable and robust enough for production/edge cases, moving away from loose scripts. The architecture aims to solve critical gaps in deterministic orchestration identified by *Prof. Claudionor Coelho Jr. (Stanford alum, ML/DL Faculty at Santa Clara Univ., and Senior Fellow for AI at Majestic Labs)* during our work on the Kiroku project. *Key Technical Features:* * *Neurosymbolic Native:* We integrated Prolog to logically validate LLM outputs. This combines neural…

    Jan 2026 · fabceolin.github.io · its alternatives →

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    LiveTok▲22

    A few months ago, WhatsApp released a calling API. I’d been experimenting with conversational interfaces for a while, and it seemed like a good chance to build something that could let businesses create voice-based agents without much setup. I’ve been working on this over the past few months, and the beta is now publicly available. The idea is simple: you point the platform to your website URL, and it automatically configures a voice + messaging agent that customers can call or message. No code required. My expectation is that many businesses will eventually offer some form of conversational…

    Dec 2025 · livetok.ai · its alternatives →

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    I launched Netlify with a Show HN more than 11 years today, for humans. Today we're launching our Agent first version of Netlify. Super early days for this, but I expect it to become as important as our original launch over time. It's as hard to perfect these flows as it was to perfect some of the initial human DX flows, since the agents are non-deterministic and keeps changing and evolving, and we'll have more to show soon on our eval tooling for this. Try it out with an agent, and we would love feedback on what works and what doesn't as we keep iterating on making Netlify better for our…

    Apr 2026 · netlify.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m the creator of Cordum. I’ve been working in DevOps and infrastructure for years (currently in the fintech/security space), and as I started playing with AI agents, I noticed a scary pattern. Most "safety" mechanisms rely on system prompts ("Please don't do X") or flimsy Python logic inside the agent itself. If we treat agents as autonomous employees, giving them root access and hoping they listen to instructions felt insane to me. I wanted a way to enforce hard constraints that the LLM cannot override, no matter how "jailbroken" it gets. So I built Cordum. It’s an open-source…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Transform Customer Support with AI-Powered Agents

    2025 · widgetease.com · its alternatives →

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    AI site chat agent with WYSIWYG editor & 2nd AI for insight

    Nov 2025 · its alternatives →

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    Train and deploy AI agents in minutes to your website

    2025 · widgetstack.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN. I built an AI agent harness over the past few months and I'm open sourcing it today. Some context on why. I've been building with Claude Code daily using this harness. It orchestrates multiple AI agents as a team, with a dashboard, chat, kanban board, the works. I used it to build a full SaaS product (MyUpMonitor, https://myupmonitor.com) in about 24 hours of focused coding. Then yesterday Anthropic announced Mythos and decided to keep it behind closed doors. Meanwhile I'm paying for Claude and I can't access their best model. I don't think that is nice at all... So I'm…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Chatbots are amazing at conversation. They suck at getting shit done while you’re sleeping, in a meeting, or at the beach. So I built Computer Agents: real AI coworkers that each get their own isolated computer in the cloud. What actually happens when you create one: It boots its own persistent workspace (files, code, memory, everything survives forever) You give it a goal + tools/skills It runs 24/7 on cron, webhooks, or just “keep working until done” You get results via email, Telegram, or just check back whenever No more “remember this for next time.” It literally…

    Feb 2026 · computer-agents.com · its alternatives →

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    A few weeks ago, we started looking for a good framework to build agentic workflows within our Rails monolith at Chatwoot, but couldn't find anything that fit our needs. So, we decided to build our own. The SDK lets you create multiple AI agents that can interact with users, use tools, share context, and hand conversations off to each other. The SDK is provider-agnostic and designed to be thread-safe. Here's a link to our GitHub repository with the entire code, a quick-start guide, as well as an interactive example: https://github.com/chatwoot/ai-agents Fair warning: This…

    2025 · sab1b2u.spread.name · its alternatives →

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    ChatIn▲11

    24/7 AI customer support & sales agent for e-commerce.

    2025 · chatin.support · its alternatives →

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