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.
So it supports chat as well? Could I call it through a messaging app and simply explain what I need by voice? If so, it's essentially a full-fledged assistant. There are entire companies that provide low-cost virtual assistants, and this could replace them.
Congrats! The bit that impressed me: I gave it a genuinely hard technical question and Auto answered on a cheap fast model rather than the priciest one, and naming the chat got routed to something cheaper still. Most tools just run everything on one expensive model.
One curiosity: starting a new conversation looks ~3x pricier than continuing one, which on the free plan is ~6 handoffs a day. Since the product is built around lots of small handoffs, that seems worth a look. Happy to share numbers.
I think this is really great, but the aspect of trust remains a bit of a pain point.
"Remembers your people and relationships" is the feature that makes this feel genuinely personal but it's also the feature that raises the most questions about what's being stored and for how long. If Zinley is building a relationship graph from your calls and emails, where does that data live, who can access it, and what happens to it if you cancel the subscription or the company shuts down? That's not a hypothetical concern for something that's actively learning about your professional relationships.
How much does Zinley learn from previous conversations before it starts feeling genuinely personalized?
How much does Zinley learn from previous conversations before it starts feeling genuinely personalized?
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?
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 411 upvotes and 107 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 (657.5k followers), Artificial Intelligence (475.2k followers) and Virtual Assistants (16.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 263.7k 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