Minute
Offline meeting notes on macOS with Whisper and llama.cpp
Details
- External ID
- 49088771
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Minute
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6039426523297491
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hello HN,I built Minute because I wanted searchable meeting notes without sending recordings or transcripts to a cloud service. It captures microphone and optional system audio, transcribes locally with Whisper, and generates summaries, decisions, and action items using a local LLM through llama.cpp. After the initial model download, everything runs on-device and in-process. There’s no account, server, or telemetry. The app is built with Tauri, Rust, React, and Metal acceleration. Notes are stored locally as plain text, JSON, and WAV files.I built the project end-to-end with Codex as a design and engineering partner—including the UX, accessibility work, reliability tests, CI, and Apple Silicon/Intel release automation.I guess software engineering isn’t ending. The leverage is getting ridiculous.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI voice recorders and meeting notetakers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- offline meeting transcription and notes for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a native or Electron/Tauri macOS wrapper that pipes CoreAudio into whisper.cpp and passes transcriptions to a local llama.cpp server for summarization.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Whisper (OpenAI), Qwen, Gemma
Concerns raised: VAD (Voice Activity Detection) performance and implementation complexity, Diarization support unclear
Feature requests: Diarization capability
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 127 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #60 of 128 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 256 days after the earliest competitor.
- Trace · hn · 2026-06-13 · 205 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- On-device meeting transcription for your Mac · hn · 2026-03-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Coii AudioNotes · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- QuietHint® · ph · 2026-09-17 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Speechmark · ph · 2026-09-10 · 103 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- jev-voice · github · 2026-09-18 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- OpenWhisper · hn · 2026-02-13 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- TongueType · hn · 2026-05-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.