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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 #80

Since this isn't available yet on Windows, what would be the glue & duct tape alternative? Record audio and dump it in chatGPT? Or do you need to create some kind of automation with n8n / Zapier? I don't have that many meetings but it could be nice to have

https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe

Only for speech to text though.

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

#82
post #80

Since this isn't available yet on Windows, what would be the glue & duct tape alternative? Record audio and dump it in chatGPT? Or do you need to create some kind of automation with n8n / Zapier? I don't have that many meetings but it could be nice to have

https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe Only for speech to text though.

Thanks!

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

#85
How are you balancing accuracy vs. time-to-word-on-live-transcript? Is this something you're actively balancing, or can allow an end user to tune?

I find myself often using otter.ai - because while it's inferior to Whisper in many ways, and anything but on-device, it's able to show words on the live transcript with minimal delay, rather than waiting for a moment of silence or for a multi-second buffer to fill. That's vital if I'm using my live transcription both to drive async summarization/notes and for my operational use in the same call, to let me speed-read to catch up to a question that was just posed to me while I was multitasking (or doing research for a prior question!)

It sometimes boggles me that we consider the latency of keypress-to-character-on-screen to be sacrosanct, but are fine with waiting for a phrase or paragraph or even an entire conversation to be complete before visualizing its transcription. Being able to control this would be incredible.

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

#86
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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.

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

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

#87
post #80

Since this isn't available yet on Windows, what would be the glue & duct tape alternative? Record audio and dump it in chatGPT? Or do you need to create some kind of automation with n8n / Zapier? I don't have that many meetings but it could be nice to have

I've been using https://www.quillmeetings.com/ on Windows for a few months and it's been great. It processes locally in the same fashion i.e. no cloud requirement.

Paid subscription, not open source.

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

#88
post #85

How are you balancing accuracy vs. time-to-word-on-live-transcript? Is this something you're actively balancing, or can allow an end user to tune? I find myself often using otter.ai - because while it's inferior to Whisper in many ways, and anything but on-device, it's able to show words on the live transcript with minimal delay, rather than waiting for a moment of silence or for a multi-second buffer to fill. That's…

It is more like ai model problem(then app logic. doing it more frequently will require more computation. Things like speculative decoding can help though).

Doing it locally is hard, but we expect to ship it very soon. Please join our Discord(https://hyprnote.com/discord) if you are interested to hear from us.

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

#90

Nice! Would be great if you could include in your launch message how you plan to monetize this. Everybody likes open source software and local-first is excellent too, but if you mention YC too then everybody also knows that there is no free lunch, so what's coming down the line would be good to know before deciding whether to give it a shot or just move on.

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?
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