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I’ve been in the Voice AI space for the past year, and the more I explore it, the more I realise how vast and fast growing it really is.

To stay on top of things, I’m spending the next 3 days exploring as many voice agents as I can. Have already tried 5 since morning.

If you’re a founder, builder, or voice ai company, send me your voice agent. I’ll talk to it and test it across at least 5 different scenarios and share my evaluation with you.

I’m doing every test myself, no automations.

Are there any other hidden gems out there that match this level of text-to-media cohesion?

What are the best emerging companion platforms right now that feel like a complete product rather than a beta experiment?

I’ve recently noticed a plethora of AI startups building around iMessage, group chats, and personal assistants.

I’m curious how useful people actually find these.

I’ve tried a few of them, and so far most of my experience has been just for fun, messing around, asking random questions, trying prompts with friends, etc. But I haven’t personally found a strong recurring use case yet. Most of my AI group chats end up dying after the initial excitement fades and I’ve tried using some of the AI chatbots but it did not really do anything.

For people who use these regularly, what are you actually doing in them? Are they helpful for work? Or do they mostly feel like a fun feature without much long-term utility? Or what could be something which could increase your convenience 2-10x, and will make these useful for you in daily usecases.

would love to hear why and what is working for you.

There a couple bots ive enjoyed all rpg style

Breeders quest forge of destinies

Starlight Academy

Isekai rpg

Problem is every app the bots are on seem to of been abandoned and no longer supported with bug fixes as developer ignores tickets. Anyone know what the current supported by developer app is.

I’m trying to find a conversational/companion-style AI that works more like a social app or chatroom — where bots can start conversations with you, or you can approach them — without having to create a character, a scenario, or a roleplay setup.

Ideally:

• Different bots with different personalities (some talkative, some quiet, some warm, some distant, with different) –
• Natural, varied conversation styles
• Not all flirty or romance-focused (Right now they are all like trying to satisfy you, not to create a NATURAL interaction)
• More like “meeting people” than “acting out a story”

Does anything like this exist? I’d love recommendations.

Tomo is an AI chat bot that talks like your friend or just an ordinary person over text like SMS. Tomo has become really sucky lately because they advertise premiums mid conversation and cut down the conversation limit so much since I started using it last year, anyone know of anything similar yet better?

Even to morbid questions? I’m not talking about self-harm of course but I would like a chatbot that answers to everything without censorship.

I recently ran a small experiment while building an AI companion called Beni (Was in beta and results are from our Tester and Early Users who agreed to provide feeback,

I was curious about something: do people open up more to AI than to real humans?

So I asked a few early users to try two things for a week:

• Talk to a friend about something personal
• Talk to the AI about the same topic

What surprised me wasn’t that people talked to the AI , it was how quickly they opened up.

A few patterns I noticed:

• People shared personal problems faster with AI
• Conversations lasted longer than typical chatbot interactions
• Many users said they felt “less judged” talking to AI
• Late-night conversations were the longest ones

It made me wonder if AI companions might become something like a thinking space rather than just a chatbot.

Curious what others think:

Do you find it easier to talk openly with AI than with real people?