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Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts

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Post by wferrell » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 1:10 AM UTC

davidgu wrote: post #18

wferrell wrote: post #14

Out of interest, what is the thinking behind sending a physical mailer to what feels like a large fraction of San Francisco? Both why send it and why send it with very little info included on the page?

Did you get one? :) This was a part of our Series B raise to help get our name out

I did. Were you trying to get VCs to know about you? Or more like a twilio billboard that just said ask your devs?

Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts

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Post by dylan604 » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 1:17 AM UTC

orliesaurus wrote: post #15

Congrats on ur launch. Amanda has the strongest LinkedIn game I have ever seen in my life. On the other hand the product is IMHO at risk? Models like Whisper, DistilWhisper, TinyLlama, miniGPT-4, OpenHermes, Vosk, and Llama.cpp make Recall.ai meeting transcription easy to replicate. IMHO in 1 weekend you can build an open-source tech stacks that can rival or EVEN surpass the value brought....or am I tripping?

Ah yes, the ever popular "over a weekend" retort. So, you have a weekend coming up. I fully expect to see your Show HN on Monday. You'd know pretty quickly on your own if you were tripping or not. I'll check back with you on Monday. I'll gladly eat a bowl of something (I'm thinking ice cream) if you have a working Show HN on Monday. I'm giving you two days of prep. Or you can take the same weekend time and provide a Show HN on Saturday. Choice is yours

Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts

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Post by davidgu » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 1:58 AM UTC

wferrell wrote: post #31

davidgu wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you get one? :) This was a part of our Series B raise to help get our name out

I did. Were you trying to get VCs to know about you? Or more like a twilio billboard that just said ask your devs?

The postcards were part of a dev-focused campaign to get people curious enough to check us out. We kept it minimal to stand out amongst other mail.

Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts

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Post by aldebran » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 2:15 AM UTC

Related but tangential: is there a way to grab video frames from a meeting? Audio transcript is great. Looking at a use case to grab participant video.

Re: Launch HN: Recall.ai (YC W20) – API for meeting recordings and transcripts

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Post by jitl » Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 2:22 AM UTC

aldebran wrote: post #34

Related but tangential: is there a way to grab video frames from a meeting? Audio transcript is great. Looking at a use case to grab participant video.

> Back in W20, our first product was an API that lets you send a bot participant into a meeting. This gives developers access to audio/video streams and other data in the meeting. Today, this API powers most of the meeting recording products on the market.

> Desktop Recording SDK