Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

131–140 of 185 posts

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

#131
post #96

This is perfect timing! I just cancelled my fireflies.ai subscription yesterday because it just felt unnecessary. I prefer using less platforms and more tools, especially those that can work under the surface.

happy to support you! would love to hear your feedback. we have a discord up and running, fyi.

i will give it a spin this week and share feedback :)

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

#132

I just tried to build on Linux and it keeps panicking because it requires dozen(s) of API keys. I was not expecting that from local first software.

I'm also interested in learning about why the API keys are required to build.

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

#133
post #132

I just tried to build on Linux and it keeps panicking because it requires dozen(s) of API keys. I was not expecting that from local first software.

I'm also interested in learning about why the API keys are required to build.

There are only 2 api keys that is required to build (POSTHOG, SENTRY), and also not required to build in dev, only in release build.

I made it required to prevent accidentally ship app without any analytics/error tracking. (analytics can be opted out)

For ex, https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/blob/327ef376c1091d093c...

EDIT: Prod -> release

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

#134

I'm building a voice-controlled app, so it requires transcription. The problem is that the app talks back, so some amount of AEC is needed. It looks like your "generic" AEC is ML powered, but your planned platform specific AEC may use non-ML tech (i.e. looks like you're considering Windows/Mac specific APIs). Have you had a bad experience with AI powered AEC?

> Have you had a bad experience with AI powered AEC?

no. actually it is pretty good :)

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

#135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For individuals: We have a Pro license implemented in our app. Some non-essential features like custom templates or multi-turn chat are gated behind a paid license. (A custom STT model will also be included soon.) There's still no sign-up required. We use keygen.sh to generate offline-verifiable license keys. Currently, it's priced at $179/year. For business: If they want to self-host some kind of admin server with i…

Does that mean the admin server is not open source?

no. it is open source. https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/tree/main/apps/admin

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

#136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of API/Hooks you expect us to expose? We are down to do that.

The ability to receive live transcripts from a webhook, including speaker diarization metadata would be super useful.

webhook to the localhost server, right?

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

#137

I just tried to build on Linux and it keeps panicking because it requires dozen(s) of API keys. I was not expecting that from local first software.

That is not actually required. You can even set empty key for that.

Also Linux issue pointer: https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/issues/67#issuecomment-...

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

#138
post #114

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 sh…

Agreed. We are working on Windows too.

For macOS, it is dogfooding, and also lots of AI models are Mac optimized + overall Mac device more powerful than windows, so suited to on-device thing.

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

#139

Do you intend to reach feature parity with something like MacWhisper? I'd love to switch to something open source, but automated meeting detection, push to transcribe (with custom rewrite actions) are two features I've learned to love, beside basic transcript. I also enjoy the automatic transcription from an audio, video or a even a YouTube link. But because MacWhisper does not store transcripts or do much with them…

definitely planning to catch up to other tools - we ship FAST! automated meeting detection - working on this. push to transcribe - want to understand more about this. (could we talk more over at our discord? https://hyprnote.com/discord ) if you're using logseq, we'd love to build an integration for you. finally, speaker identification is a big challenge for us too. so many things to do - so exciting!

> finally, speaker identification is a big challenge for us too.

But your home page makes it looks like you already have it. I just tried it in a 30-minute meeting with 20 people and it put the entire conversation under a single speaker, in a single paragraph.

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

#140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

definitely planning to catch up to other tools - we ship FAST! automated meeting detection - working on this. push to transcribe - want to understand more about this. (could we talk more over at our discord? https://hyprnote.com/discord ) if you're using logseq, we'd love to build an integration for you. finally, speaker identification is a big challenge for us too. so many things to do - so exciting!

> finally, speaker identification is a big challenge for us too. But your home page makes it looks like you already have it. I just tried it in a 30-minute meeting with 20 people and it put the entire conversation under a single speaker, in a single paragraph.

I acknowledge that it's outdated. When we were writing the landing page, we thought we could ship the first version of speaker diarization/identification within a few days.

However, due to various challenges and priority changes, we haven't been able to do so yet. We'll update the landing page soon.

Post reply on HN