FocusBae
Meeting notes and action items on your Mac. No bot, free.
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FocusBae records any meeting on your Mac (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack, FaceTime or in person) with no bot in the call. It transcribes on-device, then pulls out action items with the exact sentence they came from, an owner and a due date. Each person gets a page: what you owe them and what they owe you. Notes with links and backlinks, search, Markdown export. Free, open source (MIT), no account, works offline. Teams can share notes and action items in a free pilot. Requires an Apple Silicon Mac.
PH · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 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 feature
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Open Source
- Meetings
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI, action-item extraction with LLM APIs and per-person pages are vibe-codeable, but reliable system-audio capture and efficient on-device transcription on macOS require native and ML-optimization work beyond typical vibe coding.
What it would actually take: The stack would be a native Swift/macOS app using ScreenCaptureKit or Core Audio taps for meeting audio, with an on-device speech model such as a Whisper variant converted to Core ML. Diarization, the transcript-to-action-item pipeline and per-person ledgers are the next layers. Experience with macOS audio APIs, Apple Silicon performance tuning and privacy/permission handling is needed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 507 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #129 of 508 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 334 days after the earliest competitor.
- Replay · ph · 2026-11-14 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Karl · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Vemoir · ph · 2026-10-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Kikko · ph · 2026-11-13 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Coii AudioNotes · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- MeetKeeper · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- MeetGeek Desktop App 2.0 · ph · 2026-09-22 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Dial • Time Tracker · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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