Most AI waits inside a chat. Zinley is reachable by you and the people around you. With its own phone number and email, it answers calls, handles email, books things, and gets work done within your rules. It remembers your people and relationships, then reports back in your language. Not another chatbot. A second you that shows up.
Most AI waits in a chat box. We built the opposite.
Zinley is your personal extension — own phone number, email, and computer. It answers calls, handles email, books stuff, follows up, and gets work done inside your rules. Remembers your people. Reports back in your language.
Not another chatbot. We extend you so the people around you can actually reach “you” when you’re busy.
Curious what you’d hand off first — and what would make you trust an AI with your number and inbox.
really enjoyed watching the demo. the idea of having an AI that can handle calls, emails and follow ups while keeping you in the loop feels genuinely useful not just another AI gimmick. Wishing the team a great launch!
Congrats Khoi! 🎉
You asked, so here's my answer.
What I'd hand off first: inbound email triage and scheduling. I run LemmeBuyIt, a shopping and product intelligence platform, mostly solo, and the interruption tax is worse than the work itself.
Every "quick question" email costs me 20 minutes of focus. An extension that answers the routine stuff inside my rules and only escalates what actually needs me would be worth real money. The phone number part is bolder and honestly where I'd wait.
Question: when it doesn't know something mid-call, does it improvise or does it gracefully punt to "I'll have him get back to you"? That answer decides everything for me. Upvoted!
Congrats on the launch! Can users inspect, edit, export, or fully delete Zinley’s memory about their contacts and relationships? That control feels essential for something this personal.
Rare to see an AI tool that discloses itself upfront instead of trying to pass as human. The escalate-to-human-on-uncertainty design is the right call, most agent products optimize for autonomy first and trust second. Curious how you handle the handoff mid-call when something crosses that uncertainty line, does the caller notice a pause, or is it seamless?
The biggest innovation here might be letting AI represent you instead of simply responding to you.
the own-phone-number angle is the interesting part, most AI assistants die the moment someone outside your chat needs to reach them. curious how it handles calls it shouldn't answer for you though, like how granular the rules are before it hands something back to the human
It would be awesome if Zinley could recognize recurring requests and proactively automate similar tasks.
@jasonzinley Congratulations. And happy product launch.
the caller-ID angle is what worries me more than prompt injection - if part of how Zinley decides "is this a known relationship" leans on caller ID or the from-address, both are trivially spoofable. someone who's done a bit of recon on you (knows your assistant's name, knows a real contact's number) could call in pretending to be that trusted contact and get bumped into the more autonomous tier before Zinley ever has to guess anything risky. is there any out-of-band verification for "this really is the person Zinley thinks it is," or does trust level still ultimately trace back to caller ID/email address matching a stored contact?
Congrats @jasonzinley@peter_bakas How does Zinley adapt its tone when talking to family, customers, or business partners?
Congrats on the launch. Interesting concept. How do you police the phone number to prevent abuse by unknown actors?
Additionally, is there any handling for multiple projects? Or would that require multiple numbers? If so what is the mechanism for assigning numbers?
Congrats on your launch, I think this is a product that interests me, I want to ask how Zinley focuses on the rules. And can ai change the rules from time to time?
Congratulations on launching. I have some use cases in mind altogether.
What were some use cases that your initial users used it for that surprised you??
This caught my attention. We live in times of dramatic distractions. Products that reduce communication overload instead of adding another inbox will always find an audience.
How do you handle sensitive conversations where privacy and accuracy matter more than speed?
Busy professionals would rely on something like this every single day once trust is established. Congrats on shipping this. Good stuff.
Can Zinley negotiate meeting times or bookings completely on its own within predefined limits?
Trusting an AI with email feel natural but handling over a phone number feels like ultimate test . I'd start with filtering out spam/cold calls before letting it talk to actual clients.
Also how it handles edge cases when someone speaks off-script on the call ?
About Zinley on Product Hunt
“Your Personal AI Representative for calls, email, and tasks”
Zinley launched on Product Hunt on August 2nd, 2026 and earned 295 upvotes and 78 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Most AI waits inside a chat. Zinley is reachable by you and the people around you. With its own phone number and email, it answers calls, handles email, books things, and gets work done within your rules. It remembers your people and relationships, then reports back in your language. Not another chatbot. A second you that shows up.
Zinley was featured in Productivity (657.4k followers), Artificial Intelligence (475.1k followers) and Virtual Assistants (16.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 263.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Rohan Chaubey
Hey Product Hunt 👋
Maker here.
Most AI waits in a chat box. We built the opposite.
Zinley is your personal extension — own phone number, email, and computer. It answers calls, handles email, books stuff, follows up, and gets work done inside your rules. Remembers your people. Reports back in your language.
Not another chatbot. We extend you so the people around you can actually reach “you” when you’re busy.
Curious what you’d hand off first — and what would make you trust an AI with your number and inbox.
Here all day. Roast us.
— Khoi + team