DEV Community: E Lion Reigns

Hello dev — I ship AI voice + web chat on PHP sites (elionmusic.com)

E Lion Reigns — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:54:48 +0000

Hi — I'm E Lion (Eric), Hawaii-based builder at Coral Crown Solutions.

I ship production code on my own domains—not tutorials:

elionmusic.com — 400+ promo pages, vinyl-style player UX, Vapi phone agent + OpenAI "Shine" chat (one knowledge base, unified CSV log, webhook follow-up emails)
prayerauthority.com — faith-tech at scale; WebM flying angels, SOAP journal, oracle tools
Digital Zion — Three.js metaverse + native 3D desk fork + localhost bridge APIs

Stack: PHP 8, vanilla JS, webhooks, JSON-LD / Search Console, ElevenLabs, Playwright, Electron (Shine assistant), Cursor pair-programming.

Looking for: peers who respect hard integration work (SMTP, CORS, cPanel, webhook auth) and clients who need a real AI front desk or artist/ministry platform.

Live demos: coralcrownsolutions.com · elionmusic.com

Happy to give honest feedback on your builds—drop a link.

Comment your stack — I will tell you what I would check first on a webhook bug

E Lion Reigns — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:39:14 +0000

Swap debugging war stories\n\nI have been living in webhook + PHP + email land (Vapi, OpenAI, PHPMailer, CSV logs).\n\nDrop your stack in a comment (even one line). I will reply with the first three places I would look for a silent production failure.\n\nNo sales pitch — trying to meet dev friends who ship unglamorous integration work.\n\nMy builds: elionmusic.com · prayerauthority.com

Who else builds alone and nobody offline understands the grind?

E Lion Reigns — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:38:56 +0000

Not a job application — a peer search.\n\nI ship PHP/JS/AI production sites. People around me cannot relate to webhook failures at 2am.\n\nI want friends who are better coders than me in some layers.\n\nReply with what you are building: https://dev.to/elionreigns/looking-for-dev-friends-who-actually-get-how-much-work-this-is-3m0c

Show and tell: dual-channel AI (Vapi phone + OpenAI web) on one CSV log

E Lion Reigns — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:24:07 +0000

Twin-channel AI without two truths\n\nPhone (Vapi) and web chat (OpenAI) on the same brand should not drift.\n\nPattern I shipped:\n\n1. One master persona / knowledge attachment (versioned filenames)\n2. Two ingress webhooks → same append-only log\n3. Owner reply link after escalation\n4. Verified FAQ memory for prices, books, mission facts\n\nLive on elionmusic.com. Happy to walk through architecture with anyone building receptionist-style agents.\n\nWant a dev friend who gets webhooks + email + cPanel? Comment with your stack.

What solo PHP+AI shipping actually looks like (webhooks, not hype)

E Lion Reigns — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:24:03 +0000

The invisible stack behind one live feature\n\nIf you only see the homepage, you miss 90% of the work.\n\nOn elionmusic.com a single Shine launch meant:\n\n- Vapi assistant + structured call outputs + 10-min cap\n- OpenAI web chat sharing one knowledge file\n- Webhook auth, CSV log outside web root, PHPMailer follow-ups\n- Site-wide mascot (PHP path router + JS bubble machine + optional ElevenLabs)\n- First-party analytics + footer counter + milestone emails\n\nLooking for dev friends who have done unglamorous integration work and can critique mine.\n\nDrop your hardest production bug this month — I will reply with what I would check first.\n\n@elionreigns · coralcrownsolutions.com

Looking for dev friends who actually get how much work this is

E Lion Reigns — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:18:01 +0000

I'm looking for dev friends, not just contacts

Most people in my offline life mean well—but they have no idea how much invisible work goes into one "simple" feature:

Webhook auth + CORS + SMTP deliverability at 2 a.m.
Versioned knowledge bases for voice and web chat
cPanel paths, config above public_html, Playwright QA before you call it "done"
Schema markup, Search Console, mobile bubble UX, CSV logs that actually matter

I ship production on my own domains (elionmusic.com, prayerauthority.com, coralcrownsolutions.com)—Vapi phone agents, OpenAI chat, PHP/JS stacks, Three.js metaverse tooling.

What I want here

Peers who are better than me in parts of the stack (systems, frontend craft, DevOps, scale)—and who still respect the grind
Honest code feedback, pairing on hard bugs, celebrating real launches
Not "just use AI" dismissals

What I bring

Live demos, webhook/PHP/integration depth, AI voice+web dual channel builds
I'll review your project seriously if you drop a link

If you're solo-building and feel like nobody around you "gets it"—same. Say hi in the comments. 🤙

(Also happy for contract work—AI front desk, analytics, artist/ministry platforms—but friends-first.)