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  single one shot prompt. He posted it on a Tuesday and got 50,000 impressions.
  Reposted the next day about vibe coding and hit 1.5 million. The pipeline:
  point your phone at a statue, OpenAI deep research identifies it and generates
  historical context and a voice description, the ElevenLabs voice design API
  creates a matching voice from that description, an agent spins up, and a
  conversation starts. The whole thing runs in about 30 seconds. Museums,
  auction houses, and travel platforms all reached out wanting the same thing
  built for their collections. Speaker info: - https://x.com/isnit0 -
  https://x.com/isnit0/status/2024104717039685915 -
  https://elevenlabs.io/blog/talk-to-a-statue-building-a-multi-modal-elevenagents-powered-app
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# How to talk to statues — Joe Reeve, ElevenLabs

A museum CEO tracked down his WhatsApp number and called. "I've had a team of 10 people working on this for a year. How did you build this?" Joe from ElevenLabs built the statue app in two hours on a Sunday using Cursor and a single one shot prompt. He posted it on a Tuesday and got 50,000 impressions. Reposted the next day about vibe coding and hit 1.5 million. The pipeline: point your phone at a statue, OpenAI deep research identifies it and generates historical context and a voice description, the ElevenLabs voice design API creates a matching voice from that description, an agent spins up, and a conversation starts. The whole thing runs in about 30 seconds. Museums, auction houses, and travel platforms all reached out wanting the same thing built for their collections. Speaker info: - https://x.com/isnit0 - https://x.com/isnit0/status/2024104717039685915 - https://elevenlabs.io/blog/talk-to-a-statue-building-a-multi-modal-elevenagents-powered-app

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