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Parrot

Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac

Details

External ID
49910328
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Parrot
Website domain
openparrot.app
Launched
Sept. 30, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
34
Upvotes percentile
0.810477657935285
Tags
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Fetched at
Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Updated at
Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.

Description

Hello Hacker NewsI am Uygar, I am an entrepreneur from London. I run my businesses on calls everyday, customers, partners and suppliers. And i have a horrible memory i forgot things. So months ago with the help of Claude i have built Parrot. I have designed and coded for my work and what i need. An to be honest worked very well and helped me alot.Parrot records what your mac hears and everything stays in your computer if you use local models, no account, no API calls. There is something called copilot which made my life easier, you can upload your files and when parrot hears that question on the screen recommends the answer. Which i believe very handy.If you want to make it smarter and dont mind cloud you can hook up your Claude API and Deepgram account, that gives super powers to Parrot. You still keep it locally but eventually you need to make API calls.So local or cloud totally up to you.Then after months of thinking i have decided share it as open source and this is my first open source project, so please go easy on me :)No account, no membership, open source and free.Code: https://github.com/turantekin/ParrotThis project made me so excited and really would like to share with you guys so i hope can help you too. Again, i am new so go easy on me and if you have any feedback i would like to hear.Thank you Uygar

Enrichment

Theme
voice control and speech transcription tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Agent / copilot
Audience
Prosumer
AI stance
AI-native
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
open-source meeting recorder and copilot for mac
Manually corrected
False

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: meetingtranscriber.app, SoundSource, OBS Studio, Obsidian

Concerns raised: Echo and static audio feedback on attendees' voices, Crowded market with many similar tools, Handling remote meetings with speaker on causing audio feedback into mic

Feature requests: Real-time voice to AI voice generation, OBS plugin support, Ability to attach a folder to documents

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 78 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #16 of 79 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.