Rekall
an Ableton Live project management companion application
Details
- External ID
- 49271578
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Rekall
- Website domain
- machinelies.eu
- Launched
- Aug. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12634408602150538
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Hello, I'm Ricardo and this is an application I've been working on for the past half year.I've been making music for a while and I have a few hundreds of projects, which several of them, have names that are completely meaningless to me. So I sought out to create a way of always having an audio file from every project without the need for me to render anything manually. Well.. I kinda lost track of my goal and ended up creating an application to work along with the M4L device.That's how REKALL came about. It's a companion app for organizing/managing your Ableton Live projects.Import all your projects in one place, filter, sort and tag them, manage your audio exports, group them into releases, take notes. And with the companion Max for Live device, every session you play gets captured automatically, leaving two recordings, one of the last 30s and the other of your arrangement.I hope it helps you getting organized and finishing music.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and music production tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ableton live project management
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While an electron/desktop shell UI is straightforward, parsing Ableton's proprietary .als project files (gzipped XML structures with complex audio routing and sample references) requires intricate DAW format reverse engineering.
What it would actually take: A cross-platform desktop app using Tauri/Electron and Rust/TypeScript. The difficult core is reliably decoding Ableton's proprietary XML schema inside gzip-compressed project files (.als), extracting sample dependencies, track setups, plugin states, and generating/extracting embedded audio previews without crashing across varying Ableton versions.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 56 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #53 of 57 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 271 days after the earliest competitor.
- OLYMPE · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Ableton Live MCP · hn · 2026-05-03 · 123 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- ultimate-ableton-live-utility · github · 2026-09-15 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- ableton-live-suite-free · github · 2026-09-15 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Ableton-Live-Cracked · github · 2026-09-19 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- audioglyph.io · ph · 2026-09-18 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Rekal · hn · 2026-04-12 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Max Studio Tools · hn · 2026-07-24 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.