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

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Post by santiagobasulto »

abxyz wrote: post #109
petesergeant wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we did some logo plays Help me understand what this means

The most honest version is the company is paying for the tool. The most stretched version I’ve seen is a former employee of a company uses the tool in a personal capacity. Most commonly for newly launched things it means someone with an @company email has tried the tool (even if they didn’t pay). You could, for example, set up a waitlist and then let anyone with a logo-worthy email in.

I think this is way too far. For me personally, the threshold to put the logo is someone within the company is paying, even though the whole company is not in a contract. For example, you might not have a full fledged contract with Google, but one manager of a tiny team might have used her/his company credit card to pay for your tool. If the sum is below a certain threshold, they don't need to authorize or go through vendor vetting and all that.

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

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Post by johntopia »

petesergeant wrote: post #107
johntopia wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

have to admit that we did some logo plays. but our users are really all over the place and just wanted to show it off! i am not sure how it looked but that's why we didn't use terms like "teams" or "customers" to be honest while showing some validation.

> we did some logo plays Help me understand what this means

to show that we are acknowledged by many users from various orgs. we listed users who talked to, but we do not know if they still use it as some of them are not reachable(lost contact). i am admitting that we wanted to seem official so that's why we had all these logos where our users are "from".

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

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Post by weego »

yaseer wrote: post #110
Lionga wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Logo play" is such a YCombinator word for Lie.

It says "Our users are everywhere" and shows some logos for the companies these users are from. If the users are from those companies, this is not lying. If they added logos for companies their users are not from, it would be lying. Adding a logo to your webpage has started to follow different patterns for the stage of the company. Early stage companies show things like "people at X, Y, Z use our product!" (showing l…

There's a lot of heavy lifting in the idea that someone who tried it / used it of their own volition that happens to work for, say Google, is the same as indicating that your product is "used by Google".

It's a lie of accuracy, but still a lie.

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

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Post by kriro »

Curious what made you decide to start with the macOS version. Some insight that most potential customers are on Macs or simply "we use Macs, dogfood time"? I'd always target Windows first for these tools.

Looks cool, I'll wait for the Linux version and try it.

Integration of automatic translations could be an interesting business plan value-add. Branching out into CRM things also makes sense to me.

Good luck, keep shipping.

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

#115

Post by atoav »

santiagobasulto wrote: post #111
abxyz wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The most honest version is the company is paying for the tool. The most stretched version I’ve seen is a former employee of a company uses the tool in a personal capacity. Most commonly for newly launched things it means someone with an @company email has tried the tool (even if they didn’t pay). You could, for example, set up a waitlist and then let anyone with a logo-worthy email in.

I think this is way too far. For me personally, the threshold to put the logo is someone within the company is paying, even though the whole company is not in a contract. For example, you might not have a full fledged contract with Google, but one manager of a tiny team might have used her/his company credit card to pay for your tool. If the sum is below a certain threshold, they don't need to authorize or go through…

Well "Joe in accounting from Google is using it" doesn't have the same glamour as putting the Google logo apparently.

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

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Post by druskacik »

santiagobasulto wrote: post #111
abxyz wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The most honest version is the company is paying for the tool. The most stretched version I’ve seen is a former employee of a company uses the tool in a personal capacity. Most commonly for newly launched things it means someone with an @company email has tried the tool (even if they didn’t pay). You could, for example, set up a waitlist and then let anyone with a logo-worthy email in.

I think this is way too far. For me personally, the threshold to put the logo is someone within the company is paying, even though the whole company is not in a contract. For example, you might not have a full fledged contract with Google, but one manager of a tiny team might have used her/his company credit card to pay for your tool. If the sum is below a certain threshold, they don't need to authorize or go through…

The threshold should be that a relevant representative of the company agreed to have the logo displayed on the website. Anything other than that is deceptive.

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

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Post by mentalgear »

johntopia wrote: post #112
petesergeant wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we did some logo plays Help me understand what this means

to show that we are acknowledged by many users from various orgs. we listed users who talked to, but we do not know if they still use it as some of them are not reachable(lost contact). i am admitting that we wanted to seem official so that's why we had all these logos where our users are "from".

kudos for being transparent on your approach here

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

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Post by mentalgear »

Looks great & kudos for making it local-first & open-source, much appreciated!

From a business perspective, and as someone looking also into the open-source model to launch tools, I'd be interested though how you expect revenue to be generated?

Is it solely relying on the audience segment that doesn't know how to hook up the API manually to use the open-source version? How do you calculate this, since pushing it via open-source/github you would think that most people exposed to it are technical enough to just run it from source.

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

#120

Post by mentalgear »

hidelooktropic wrote: post #116

Unfortunately the GPL license makes it dead in the water for using something like this at work :(

Why? You can use it, only if you want to extend the tool as part of your (paid) work, you are meant to contribute the code changes back.

But none of it should prevent someone from just using it (GPL does not mean any usage data is being made "public").

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