100% Free, private meeting notes that never leave your Mac
Details
- External ID
- 49032309
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- 100% Free, private meeting notes that never leave your Mac
- Website domain
- oatsnote.com
- Launched
- July 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- native desktop apps and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- private meeting notes for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It packages local system audio capture with open-source transcription models like Whisper and an LLM summary prompt into an Electron or native wrapper.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 296 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #278 of 297 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 262 days after the earliest competitor.
- Nod · hn · 2026-06-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Speechmark · hn · 2026-06-19 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- noterepo · github · 2026-09-29 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- A cross-platform app for meeting notes and items that don't get lost · hn · 2026-07-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Keen Bean · hn · 2026-09-06 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Coii AudioNotes · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Epilude Notetaker · ph · 2026-09-13 · 109 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Oats · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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