Helping your local shawarma spot pick up every call and remember you as their #1 late night customer. Cardamom is an AI voice line for takeout-heavy restaurants that answers inbound phone calls, connects directly into the restaurant’s POS system, and ties every order to a customer’s phone number so restaurants can track returning customers, offer rewards, and build a real customer data layer from their calls.
Hey, Sahil here, CTO. I built and sold a company in my sophomore year, my open-source tool hit 110k installs, and somehow the hardest thing I've built is making AI understand "same as last time" from a noisy restaurant kitchen.
Hey Product Hunt! We're Zach and Sahil, and we're building Cardamom, an AI voice line that answers all incoming phone calls for takeout heavy restaurants.
Zach started running restaurants at 17 and owned his own by 19. He worked in five restaurants under Michelin chefs. One common theme across the restaurant industry is what's called "organized chaos", when a situation appears completely chaotic but actually has an underlying structure.
We spoke with 32 restaurants in the Washington, DC area and found that while most were surviving on organized chaos, key details were slipping. At a busy Indian restaurant near our college, phones rang off the hook and went unanswered. Even when they picked up there phone, they're order was quickly inputted in Toast or Square and hung up, no record of who called.
We felt there should be a smarter, more data-friendly way for takeout-heavy restaurant owners to handle incoming phone orders and build a real understanding of their returning customers.
Cardamom is an AI voice line that connects directly into the owner's POS and gives takeout-heavy restaurant visibility into their returning customers, a layer of data that is lost in every POS.
Cardamom launched on Product Hunt on May 8th, 2026 and earned 61 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #42 on the daily leaderboard. Helping your local shawarma spot pick up every call and remember you as their #1 late night customer. Cardamom is an AI voice line for takeout-heavy restaurants that answers inbound phone calls, connects directly into the restaurant’s POS system, and ties every order to a customer’s phone number so restaurants can track returning customers, offer rewards, and build a real customer data layer from their calls.
Cardamom was featured in Customer Communication (12.7k followers), Artificial Intelligence (467.7k followers) and YC Application (36 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 96.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Cardamom?
Cardamom was hunted by Sahil Jagtap. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Sahil Jagtap
Hey, Sahil here, CTO. I built and sold a company in my sophomore year, my open-source tool hit 110k installs, and somehow the hardest thing I've built is making AI understand "same as last time" from a noisy restaurant kitchen.
Drop any questions, we're both here all day.
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