functional_dev's comments

On: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

[functional_dev]

Building a cheaper alternative to Twilio Voice Intelligence. Record phone calls, transcribe, generate AI summaries, enable semantic search over transcripts — $0.30/hour vs Twilio's $1.50/hour.

Stack is 15+ Go microservices on k3s. Cross-lingual semantic search is fun. Spanish query returns English calls with no translation code.

https://audiotext.live/

On: I Hate Go, but It Saved My Startup: An Architectural Autopsy

[functional_dev]

That is strange. Just tried it on Firefox (Desktop), and it loaded fine. Any tips how to identify what is the issue?

On: I Hate Go, but It Saved My Startup: An Architectural Autopsy

[functional_dev]

What browser are you using? It loads up for me fine. Could you help me to debug that, please?

[canadiantim → functional_dev]

So it’s funny on chrome and safari I only get the html, no css.

But on brave it loads perfectly.

I’m on an iPhone 16.

I will add that I do appreciate the perspective your article gave me, so thank you for writing and sharing! Will have to finally actually explore Go

[functional_dev → canadiantim]

It's probably SRI. I disabled "Email Address Obfuscation" in Cloudflare. It was probably misfiring.

[functional_dev → canadiantim]

Thanks for follow up!

I suspect this is cloudflare doing some auto-minifying. It injects the "integrity" tags and something does not match. I will try to turn it off.

Thanks again!

On: I Hate Go, but It Saved My Startup: An Architectural Autopsy

[functional_dev]

Could be both. I have used LLMs quite heavily on Rust (at work) and Haskell at leisure. And it is much harder to MOVE FAST.

On: I Hate Go, but It Saved My Startup: An Architectural Autopsy

[functional_dev]

English is not my first language, and you nailed it. I used LLM to "polish" it. Probably too much. But I am open for questions if you like :)

On: I Hate Go, but It Saved My Startup: An Architectural Autopsy

[functional_dev]

Author here. I’m a huge FP snob (Rust/Scala) so using Go for this project kinda hurt at first.

But as a solo founder, I needed speed. The main thing I learned is that LLMs write amazing Go code. It's so simple and boilerplate-heavy that the AI almost never hallucinates.

Ended up building a distributed audio ingestion system that undercuts Twilio by like 80%.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or other things.

[honeycrispy → functional_dev]

Rust isn't functional. It's an expression language.

[functional_dev → honeycrispy]

You are technically right, that is not a functional language. But it borrows many things from functional world :)