A botless meeting recorder and summarizer that runs in the browser
Details
- External ID
- 48236505
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A botless meeting recorder and summarizer that runs in the browser
- Website domain
- wocal.app
- Launched
- May 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1147011308562197
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I built a browser app for recording calls and turning them into transcripts/summaries without inviting a meeting bot.The current version is BYOK: you provide an OpenAI API key, stored locally in your browser. Recordings/projects stay in browser storage; selected audio/transcript text is sent to OpenAI only when you run transcription/summary.I am testing whether the wedge is real: no bot in the meeting, no SaaS workspace for recordings, summaries/exports afterward.I would appreciate feedback on the trust boundary and whether BYOK is acceptable for a first version.I used it once to record a meeting I didn't want to spend 1 hour on, and just needed the summary - the tool captured the meeting audio even after I turned off the laptop audio.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI voice recorders and meeting notetakers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- meeting recording and summarization
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The browser has native media recording APIs (`getDisplayMedia`/`MediaRecorder`), local storage via IndexedDB, and simple wrapper calls to the OpenAI Whisper and chat completion APIs.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 176 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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