Before getting on bolt.new hackathon contest, I have wondered how building the platform would turn out, I had no knowledge of coding, developing a webapp but just some info from my tech friend and business partner.
When I started, I had to spend days researching on every detail of the website I was going to build, and had all the details. Execution was left. I promised I would build it myself with no help or just a little assistance. With this determination, I started.
I kept getting the null error code continually, I knew there was something I was missing, so I halted the project and had to spend a few days crash coursing on coding and languages on YouTube, when I felt confident enough, I came back and continued building.
While building, I was already so much grateful for the access the bolt.new contest had given me and I felt that was all I would ask for while building, but when I was about 65% done, it hit me, I needed funding to go live.
For better context, I am Nigerian, and as a Nigerian, you don't get access to stuff like this that helps you build or investors or loans for Businesses, so I made up my mind to finish up my project as a prototype and submit for any of the categories my project fell into.
All said is the emotional part of building the project
About Temote.online
The project itself was a need I saw in the marketing space as a Social Media Marketer. I have a client who would need to reach out to the over 2000+ customers, but there's no way around it except we manually call. So I thought about setting up a call center, but that would be so cost intensive.
I had to think deeper, and with clarity, it then hit me one of those days, "AI can clone voices, AI can manage chats, can be taught information, so how about we integrate all these in one and add the functionality for calls?"
I discussed this with the Ceo of the brand, but he wasn't really interested as he mentioned many people would not want to talk to an AI agent, but I had to convince him that AI had gone more advance and because of this, it's easy to clone a human voice and give am identity to the agent for the brand and it won't have to sound like AI. He was still skeptical.
I went ahead to study and research and then I saw it was possible, but the solution was only for the European countries and the rest of the world and there was no option for African countries. So I decided if we cannot have it, then Why not build it? So I went all in to find out all that I needed to know, thanks to Bolt.new it came out presently temote.online became a reality.
How Did I build?
Prior to building temote.online, I had little experience with wix and wordpress but not practical knowledge, I haven't built any site that is active and working, but thanks to the many workshops and webinar, I learned, studied more and built the Temote platform. Towards the end was when my partner/brother had to come in to assist on the project.
In building Temote.online I needed to sync some platform's API Keys; platforms like ElevenLabs, Deepgram, OpenAi, twilio, Africastalking, Paystack, Supabase.
How the system works is this, when you register an account, you buy a number based on the region you're in, that number gets assigned to your AI agent, with the help of OpenAi you get to train your AI agent to know more about your brand or business, with ElevenLabs you create a voice for your AI agent, with Deepgram you aid transfer of information from OpenAi as text transcribed to voice through ElevenLabs' voice through the calling feature can give those information to the customer or make inquiries or whatever the campaign objective is. Technically this is how it works.
I made sure to be sure the project was fully optimized for functionality, what's left is to get access to Premuim use of the platforms linked to the project to sufficiently test before we launch.
In all this was really a thrilling experience, and I have recommended bolt.new to some of my tech friends already and many of which have opened an account and testing the functionalities already. I have found bolt.new I am going to build more solution going forward.
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