[pritesh1908]

Hey HN, sometime back someone on HN asked for an open-source alternative for Vapi or Retell and we replied there (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45884165) That thread just confirmed otehrs running into the same problems we had been dealing with. Now Dograh is more mature.

We are happy to share some technical details for anyone interested. A lot of Dograh’s internal work went into extending the functionality of the pipeline by including custom Frames and Processors, creating a ReactFlow based visual agent builder and creating an Engine that can parse that Agent JSON and call conversational LLM loops with function calling. Also we enhanced the functionality by creating easier access to extracted variables, call transcripts and recordings - things that are needed in any production deployment.

One thing we are still trying to understand better: how teams handle long-running conversations while keeping context tight and cheap. Would love to hear how others have approached that.