
Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff
[Repost: Sank Sunday with zero comments. Trying the weekday crowd.] 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 attacked the bot, trying to prove my business model harms the profession. The AI (DeepSeek-R3) completely dismantled his arguments. It was hilariously caustic. Log: https://logs.axoworks.com/chat-architect-vs-concierge-v147.h... A few battle scars: * Web Speech API works fine, right up until someone speaks Chinese without toggling the language mode. Th
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