Handling a hotel booking call.

- Negotiates with the customer. - Generates Payment link in realtime. - Sends payment link to whatsapp - Handles technical glitches.

Demo of a AI agent handling a hotel booking call, end to end.

- Negotiates with the customer. - Generates Payment link in realtime. - Sends payment link to whatsapp - Handles technical "system down" issues.

This is very cool. In the age if bloated JS frameworks and Bulky Desktop sites loaded on Mobile devices, its refreshing to see someone putting efforts to make the pages fit in a single MTU.

However, just page size is half the story.

Look at the screenshots below -

#1 - Here you can see this page (9KB) - 110ms - https://i.imgur.com/qeT2Az0.jpg

#2 - Another page, 29 KB in size - 42ms. https://i.imgur.com/tWsLGr1.jpg

Both on same network (Internet), same computer.

1st one (This article) is served by Netlify and AWS (Static hosting).

2nd is an ecommerce store on Dukaan (ecommerce platform for India), I am affiliated with.

Tangential: is there a law for websites like there is for countries?

If a country includes the word "Democratic" in the name, it probably isn't.

If a website says "We value your privacy", it probably doesn't.

Yeah, it's just waiting on the server for most of that time in the first screenshot. Static (or cached) sites are going to be a lot faster than sites that have to re-render things every time.

endtimes.dev is on netlify I believe and a static site, correct ?

Oh, maybe. I don't know. I'm just saying the waterfall is green, so it's waiting on the server most of the time, and I'm not sure why else that would be other than location.

Trying it myself, I can't reproduce that though. The first takes 40ms to connect to the server and 3ms downloading the page. The second take 40ms to connect, 40ms downloading the HTML, and then another 2000–3000ms downloading all the other assets.

We serve thousands of custom domains for our SaaS customers.

The end users of these domains are globally distributed and served from 14 different data centre locations across the world.

To do the geo IP matching we tried a lot of things, third party services etc but couldn't find one that works well and are priced well.

For example, the hosted DNS service we use also have a IP based filter chain feature but are priced around $22 per domain per month as add-on.

At the end, we built a anycast based solution that was very painful to setup but works fine now and can use a single A record that works across the world. We had a get a ASN, a /24 block and hell lot of back n forth with a government run org to set it up.

A "hosted" scriptable DNS server which takes the location as input and output IP of nearest edge server as output is the exact thing I needed. So yes there is definitely a niche market for it.

I still have to explore and see how closely bunnydns is able to get the source IP/location (tricky) and how does health check etc could work but definitely something I would explore and consider.

We don't strictly use an IP DNS database to figure out the location, but a series of factors that make it much more accurate than standard GeoDNS. Something we've had to do to improve our own routing for the CDN. We're constantly looking for feedback and how to solve problems, so make sure to reach out. Your feedback is what allows you to improve.

Not sure if you've used AWS's R53 but they can do Geolocation and Geoproximity DNS routing.

Interesting concept, sounds promising.

Have you checked taiko ? https://github.com/getgauge/taiko

Neat! When we were looking around, we didn't find this one, thanks.

Can it also do stuff like this:

  read ${sender} from row "Test email" column "Sender"

By the way, that works using cartesian lookup.

I tried building commerce systems in a few Vue/Nuxt js sites and figured out that building the backend part of that is in a very bad shape right now.

You either have to custom code everything or use woocommerce or Magento APIs.

Getting woocommerce or wordpress system to work as API is very difficult and poorly implemented with multiple plugins to manage register, cart, orders, payments etc.

Implementing a full blown Magento install for this is just overkill.

I looked into couple of hosted SaaS in this space and they were too new with limited functionality.

Glad this space is picking up. All the best.

Thanks subhashchy. Our opinion is that there are a lot of products that get you "half way", but that still leaves the last few miles to trudge through to have a complete solution. Let me know if there's anything that you think Commerce doesn't provide that would still be missing on your end - we want to make sure we're not just bikeshedding things to death without any outside input.