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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 yujonglee »

mentalgear wrote: post #119

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…

I mentioned about the monetization plan in other threads! (search with 'license').

Hope that make sense

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

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Post by yujonglee »

Aurornis wrote: post #128
yaseer wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> If the users are from those companies, this is not lying. Do you really believe all of those companies allow employees to install pre-release software on their computers which records company meetings and interacts with a long list of 3rd party APIs? I doubt it. They could have had people who are employed by these companies use it on their personal computers for some purpose, but the implication they’re trying to m…

> and interacts with a long list of 3rd party APIs? I doubt it.

It does not interact with 3rd party API.(except opt-out-able analytics) It uses local-ai models. No data leave user's device. It helps users in large org to try it.

> but the implication they’re trying to make is that those companies have chosen this software.

We used "Our *Users* are Everywhere" to avoid that implication. It is not typical B2B software, but open-source desktop app that individuals can use.

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

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Post by yujonglee »

Aurornis wrote: post #129
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.

> Most commonly for newly launched things it means someone with an @company email has tried the tool (even if they didn’t pay) The current growth hacking play is to have people look through their personal network to find friends who work at those companies, then to have those friends say they’ll try the software So it’s unlikely not even organic signups. It’s being pushed to friends and friends-of-friends who are unk…

It is organic signup, not coming from personal networks. (We launched on Reddit a few months ago and it went really well.)

There are individuals within the orgs who have used the app, giving us feedback through calls, or even paying for individual licenses.

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

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Post by thedevilslawyer »

ctxc wrote: post #106
johntopia wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

totally fair concern. we’re actually on the same side when it comes to promoting good security practices like SSO. the reason we’re gating the admin server under a business license is less about profiting off sso and more about drawing a line between individual and organizational use. it includes a bunch of enterprise-specific features (sso, access control, integrations, ...) that typically require more support and m…

Fair stance. I believe sso tax is a necessary evil.

Nothing fair about making software insecure. Don't normalise it.

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

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Post by yujonglee »

mijoharas wrote: post #124
yujonglee wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It can be solved with speaker segmentation/embedding models, although it is not perfect. One thing we do with Hyprnote is that we have a Descript-like transcript editor that allows you to easily edit/assign speakers. Once we integrate a speaker diarization model with that, I think we'll be in good shape. If you are interested, you can join our Discord and follow updates. :) https://hyprnote.com/discord

Oh awesome, I was reading through to see about whether it had speaker diarization (why I got rid of my whisper script I use). I'll look forward to the Linux version. Is there any chance of a headless mode? (I.e. start, and write transcript to stdout with some light speaker diarization markup. e.g. "Speaker1: text")

> Is there any chance of a headless mode?

maybe. we might be able to add extension system that each extension can have that info and do whatever it want within the app.

> I'll look forward to the Linux version.

https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/issues/67 We have open issue. You might want to subscribe to it!

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

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Post by 48terry »

johntopia wrote: post #92
itsalotoffun wrote: post #91

I'm always amazed at these relatively tiny projects that "launch" with a "customers" list that reads like they've spent 10 years doing hard outbound enterprise sales: Google, Intel, Apple, Amazon, Deloitte, IBM, Ford, Meta, Uber, Tencent, etc.

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.

> i am not sure how it looked

Well, it looks a lot like you're playing word games to get clout-by-association that you don't necessarily deserve. That doesn't seem like something an authentic person (or people) would try to do. Are the other claims about your team and software equally unserious?

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

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Post by yujonglee »

woadwarrior01 wrote: post #108
yujonglee wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What kind of sandboxing you expect? keen to learn more about it since we care about security too. (one reason why we use Tauri over Electron)

Just the default macOS sandboxing entitlement[1], which is mandatory for all apps on the Mac App Store, and optional for notarized apps. [1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/configuring-...

thank you for letting me know! will look into this

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

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Post by AlexErrant »

yujonglee wrote: post #134
AlexErrant wrote: post #126

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 :)

Forgive my probing, but why consider Windows/Mac specific APIs then?

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

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Post by headcanon »

yujonglee wrote: post #10
yonl wrote: post #9

Congrats on the launch. I never understood why an AI meeting notetaker needed sota LLMs and subscriptions (talking about literally all the other notetakers) - thanks for making it local first. I use a locally patched up whisperx + qwen3:1.7 + nomic embed (ofcourse with a swift script that picks up the audio buffer from microphone) and it works just fine. Rarely i create next steps / sop from the transcript - i use ge…

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

registering an MCP server and calling an MCP tool upon transcript completion (and/or summary completion) would help (check out actionsperminute.io for the vision there).

Calendar integration would be nice to link transcripts to discrete meetings.

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

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Post by yujonglee »

headcanon wrote: post #149
yujonglee wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

registering an MCP server and calling an MCP tool upon transcript completion (and/or summary completion) would help (check out actionsperminute.io for the vision there). Calendar integration would be nice to link transcripts to discrete meetings.

That makes sense.

Please add more details here: https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote/issues/1203

For calendar, we have native Apple Calendar integration in MacOS.

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