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Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

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Re: Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

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Post by ashishact »

yujonglee wrote: post #8
nkotov wrote: post #6

Really cool - how does it compare to Granola outside of the OSS part?

Local-first, controllability(custom endpoint part), and eventually extensibility(VSCode part of the post) We're putting a lot of effort into making it run smoothly on local machines. There are no signups, and the app works without any internet connection after downloading models.

One of the things I would want to do is - As the meeting is going on - I would like to ask a LLM what questions I could ask at that point in time. Especially if it's a subject I am not expert in.

Would I be able to create an extension that could do this?

Re: Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

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Post by monkey26 »

marcofiset wrote: post #12

The only issue I have with those tools, and I have not seen a single one even acknowledge this, is that it becomes completely useless when holding meetings in a hybrid fashion where some people are remote and others are in the office with a shared mic. Almost all of our meetings are hybrid in this way, and it's a real pain having almost half of the meeting be identified as a single individual talking because the mic…

I recently tried Vibe (https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe) from a recording of a meeting taken on one side. It was able to identify the speakers. As Speaker 1, 2, etc. But still useful to see.

Re: Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

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Post by yujonglee »

yunohn wrote: post #19
yujonglee wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I learned that running a server on the Rust side and calling it from a TypeScript frontend is a good approach. For example, we run an OpenAI-compatible server using a Tauri plugin ( https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/tree/main/plugins/local... ) and call it using the Vercel AI SDK.

I’ve been thinking about ways to reuse Vercel’s AI SDK, so this is a great one - thanks for sharing!

Also you might find this interesting:

https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/blob/main/packages/util....

Re: Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

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Post by johntopia »

ashishact wrote: post #21
yujonglee wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Local-first, controllability(custom endpoint part), and eventually extensibility(VSCode part of the post) We're putting a lot of effort into making it run smoothly on local machines. There are no signups, and the app works without any internet connection after downloading models.

One of the things I would want to do is - As the meeting is going on - I would like to ask a LLM what questions I could ask at that point in time. Especially if it's a subject I am not expert in. Would I be able to create an extension that could do this?

you can definitely do that in the future. but we had that on our mind as well from multiple requests - planning to add "eli5 - explain like i'm five" and "mmss - make me sound smart" ;) (edit: grammar fix)

Re: Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

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Post by johntopia »

nashashmi wrote: post #16
marcofiset wrote: post #12

The only issue I have with those tools, and I have not seen a single one even acknowledge this, is that it becomes completely useless when holding meetings in a hybrid fashion where some people are remote and others are in the office with a shared mic. Almost all of our meetings are hybrid in this way, and it's a real pain having almost half of the meeting be identified as a single individual talking because the mic…

you might need an AI for in-person meeting first. Such tools are available to doctors who see patients. The note taking is great but I think it is skewed towards one-person summary where the name of the patient remains unknown. I wonder if the same tool can take notes if two patients are in the room and distinguish between each one. The second tool is likely hardware limitation. A multi-cam-mic with beam forming capa…

hyprnote can be used for in-person meetings as well! we have doctors like ophthalmologists or psychiatrists using it right now. and yes - definitely going to be working on speaker identification as it crucial.

Re: Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

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Post by ashishact »

yujonglee wrote: post #5
yunohn wrote: post #3

Super cool, congrats on the launch - will be trying this soon! I noticed it’s using Tauri - what are your main takeaways from building a local inference desktop app with it?

Thanks. I learned that running a server on the Rust side and calling it from a TypeScript frontend is a good approach. For example, we run an OpenAI-compatible server using a Tauri plugin ( https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/tree/main/plugins/local... ) and call it using the Vercel AI SDK.

I wanted to build this for myself. Could never figure out how to get audio output from Mac. Tried almost all audio loopback driver (Blackhole, Soundflower ...). There was problem everywhere wrt security.

Even tried making a teams meeting bot. But Teams doesn't give live audio to developer unless you are a special partner.

Glad you made this. Will play around

Re: Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

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Post by yujonglee »

ashishact wrote: post #26
yujonglee wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I learned that running a server on the Rust side and calling it from a TypeScript frontend is a good approach. For example, we run an OpenAI-compatible server using a Tauri plugin ( https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/tree/main/plugins/local... ) and call it using the Vercel AI SDK.

I wanted to build this for myself. Could never figure out how to get audio output from Mac. Tried almost all audio loopback driver (Blackhole, Soundflower ...). There was problem everywhere wrt security. Even tried making a teams meeting bot. But Teams doesn't give live audio to developer unless you are a special partner. Glad you made this. Will play around

Great! We use AudioTap api

Re: Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

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Post by johntopia »

ashishact wrote: post #26
yujonglee wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. I learned that running a server on the Rust side and calling it from a TypeScript frontend is a good approach. For example, we run an OpenAI-compatible server using a Tauri plugin ( https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/tree/main/plugins/local... ) and call it using the Vercel AI SDK.

I wanted to build this for myself. Could never figure out how to get audio output from Mac. Tried almost all audio loopback driver (Blackhole, Soundflower ...). There was problem everywhere wrt security. Even tried making a teams meeting bot. But Teams doesn't give live audio to developer unless you are a special partner. Glad you made this. Will play around

great to see that you like it :)

Re: Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

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Post by abtinf »

marcofiset wrote: post #12

The only issue I have with those tools, and I have not seen a single one even acknowledge this, is that it becomes completely useless when holding meetings in a hybrid fashion where some people are remote and others are in the office with a shared mic. Almost all of our meetings are hybrid in this way, and it's a real pain having almost half of the meeting be identified as a single individual talking because the mic…

I forbid this kind of meeting on my teams.

Either everyone is in the same physical room, or everyone is remote.

The quality of communication plummets in the hybrid case:

* The physical participants have much higher bandwidth communication than those who are remote — they share private expressions and gestures to the detriment of remote.

* The physical participants have massively lower latency communications. In all-online meetings, everyone an adjust and accommodate the small delays; in hybrid meetings it often locks out remote participants who are always just a little behind or have less time to respond.

* The audio quality of remote is significantly worse, which I have seen result in their comments being treated as leas credible.

* Remote participants usually get horrible audio quality from those sharing a mic in the room. No one ever acknowledges this, but it dramatically impacts ability to communicate.

Re: Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

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Post by toisanji »

yujonglee wrote: post #17
ls-a wrote: post #14

Looks great. From my experience Tauri team has no clue what mobile is and they're not interested in fixing mobile issues. I can already tell the mobile version will be a disappointment.

We tried Tauri mobile (few months ago) and had the same disappointment. We will use RN or Dioxus(to share Rust code) for the mobile version. So it will be cool :)

is this a known pattern, I did a basic tauri app, but not sure what to do with mobile yet...
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