Show HN: Minutes – Save up to 20% of salespeople's time

What Minutes is doing can be described in 3 steps: 1. Taking your audio or video and transcribing it to text 2. Taking the most important and relevant information and creating a summary, including key points and the next tasks 3. Creating a follow-up email, including the summary points and next steps

Story behind it: As an entrepreneur who handles sales and marketing, I noticed a common challenge: the amount of time managers spend on creating call summaries and writing follow-up emails. Not only is it time-consuming, but it's also often a hassle to ensure accuracy. To tackle this issue, I decided to delve deeper and spoke with several sales directors. Turns out, this problem is widespread, and even salespeople themselves dislike the administrative burden it brings. Inspired by these insights, I created Minutes.

Call to action: Here's where you come in. Sign up for Minutes using the code "minutes_alpha," and you'll receive 60 free transcription minutes to play with the service. I genuinely value your feedback and insights, as they will help us refine Minutes and tailor it to the specific needs of sales teams everywhere.

Thank you for your support, and I'm eagerly looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Warm regards, Bogdan, founder of Minutes

Show HN: Minutes – Save up to 20% of salespeople's time
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Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/jojo-transcribe/id1659864300?m...

And open source: https://github.com/schibsted/WAAS

This is just the voice to text part

* Agendas: I do not take a meeting request without an agenda. 50% of the time this eliminates the meeting because either it's a few questions than can be an email, or they cancel the request because doing that is too much work. This is ideal when people are using meetings to transfer cognitive loads to other people.

* Time cap: All sales calls are capped at 30 minutes, no exceptions.

* Know yourself: I do research on the product/company beforehand in my own time, and know my needs so that during the call we can skip the parts I don't care about. This alone takes 60 minute meetings generally to the 30 minute mark.

* Take charge: I never let the salesperson lead the call. They're not the most important person on the call, I am. I'm the one with the need and the money.

* Limit the scope: I skip all the prelim questions where they "learn about your business" which is just looking for other opportunities to pitch me things. I know my business, I know my need, let's talk about how your product fits that.

While generally in the first few minutes it's a bit unsettling for the salesfolks, generally when I explain that my goal is to make this as quick as possible, the vast majority wind up appreciating my approach as they get off the meeting in 20 minutes most of the time.

The problem isn't how much time salespeople waste on summaries, it's how much time they waste overall. Too much glad-handing and not enough focus. I'd much rather see a tool like this help salespeople cut their pitches in half than simply making a summary email I'll ignore.