QuietHint®
The meeting assistant that stays on your Mac
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QuietHint listens to your call on your Mac and suggests a short reply while a question is still being asked. No bot joins the meeting and audio never leaves your device: speech is transcribed on the Mac, with your words kept apart from theirs. Hints land in a small overlay during the call, not in a summary afterwards. Works with any call app, uses your own Anthropic key, free to try on Apple silicon.
PH · launched Sep 17, 2026 · 73 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: ai meeting note takers · 192 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
Partial Creating a standard UI overlay is simple, but reliable low-latency on-device system audio capture, microphone dual-channel separation without a virtual audio driver conflict, and fast local streaming transcription require native macOS CoreAudio/Speech expertise.
What it would actually take: A production version requires native macOS development in Swift/Objective-C leveraging CoreAudio taps or `ScreenCaptureKit` for system audio capture alongside `AVAudioEngine` for microphone isolation. The audio streams must be normalized, fed concurrently into an on-device Whisper (e.g., whisper.cpp or CoreML) engine with real-time turn detection and voice activity detection (VAD), followed by low-latency streaming to an LLM API to display suggested hints in a non-intrusive floating overlay.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1011 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #91 of 1012 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- QuietScribe · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- VoiceNoodler · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Speaklively · ph · 2026-11-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Cohearo · ph · 2026-10-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- TranscribeX · ph · 2026-10-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- nchova · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- TapScribe · ph · 2026-11-02 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- WhisperWrite · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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