Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-08
Relay, the AI assistant with a phone line
Relay presents a personal AI assistant that searches the web, browses GitHub, edits files, chains tools together, and makes phone calls.
Why it surfacedThis is more ambitious than a chat box: its homepage describes an assistant that can research a product, call a store, check stock, and reserve an item in one flow. It is also presented as open, private, and self-hostable through Ollama, with paid tiers tied to message and phone-call limits.
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The Fax Is Thinking
August 8’s newborn domains include a chatbot that replies only by fax, an Elmira tax analysis built from 1,689 sales, a map protecting Jeju divers’ precise fishing grounds, and 58 boxes catalogued into one uncle’s 1,113-book library.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-08 Domain Arrivals issue.