Minute
Offline meeting notes on macOS with Whisper and llama.cpp
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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.
HN · launched Jul 28, 2026 · 12 upvotes (top 40%) · 0 views
Niche: ai meeting note takers · 192 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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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 : 278 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #136 of 279 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 259 days after the earliest competitor.
- Meeting Noter · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- QuietScribe · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- nchova · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Trace · hn · 2026-06-13 · 205 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Parlin · ph · 2026-10-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Shiyin · github · 2026-10-15 · 54 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- On-device meeting transcription for your Mac · hn · 2026-03-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- NotaVox · ph · 2026-10-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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