{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T18:49:21.701Z","source":{"name":"Hacker News public API","url":"https://github.com/HackerNews/API","attribution":"Stories and comments are public Hacker News submissions by their respective authors. HackerHub is an independent reader, not affiliated with Y Combinator.","content_is_untrusted":true},"story_id":50454625,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50454625","total_comments":108,"returned":20,"scope":"Up to the requested number of top-level comments in Hacker News ranked order. Deleted comments are omitted. Nested replies are not fetched; this is not the complete thread.","comments":[{"id":50462884,"author":"scosman","created_at":"2026-11-12T03:54:22.000Z","text":"Granola, Yogurt... I present Biscotti, yet another OSS meeting recorder. 100% local. Mine is MacOS native UI, no Electron/Tauri.\nhttps://github.com/scosman/Biscotti","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":3,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50462884"},{"id":50457825,"author":"lavendermon","created_at":"2026-11-11T19:58:03.000Z","text":"I live in a two party consent state and have yet to pull the trigger on an AI transcription service. Yogurt is the first appropriate implementation of the service in my opinion, both for personal privacy and to limit potential issues if Granola or similar service gets hacked and transcriptions go public.\nI appreciate that you included a default warning for the owner to let everyone on the call know they are being recorded. It might be ideal to take that a step further and have the popup occur again if another party joins the call and should also be notified of the recording.","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50457825"},{"id":50456763,"author":"theturtletalks","created_at":"2026-11-11T18:30:09.000Z","text":"I’ll add it to my open-source directory[0].\nHow does it differ from Muesli[1] and OpenOats[2]?\n0. https://opensource.builders/alternatives/granola\n1. https://github.com/pHequals7/muesli\n2. https://github.com/yazinsai/OpenOats","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":9,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50456763"},{"id":50458698,"author":"nonethewiser","created_at":"2026-11-11T21:09:36.000Z","text":"This is totally off topic, but how do people feel about generic names like Yogurt?\nI've always sort of assumed it wasnt a good idea because there is collision everywhere (SEO, registries, domain, etc).","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":3,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50458698"},{"id":50462767,"author":"dudus","created_at":"2026-11-12T03:38:38.000Z","text":"Google also has a (beta) solution for this.\nhttps://developers.google.com/edge/foresight\nIt's free and uses local models.","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50462767"},{"id":50461424,"author":"jharohit","created_at":"2026-11-12T00:51:31.000Z","text":"congrats! My wife showed me Granola one day and I was horrified on the privacy aspects of it. So I also built something similar but for advanced Super users - Notesy\nI have been using for 6 months and just love it (and my wife moved over too!). Uses the Gemini APIs (they are so fast, so cheap and so good!). Now we actually use it within the company as well!\nRolling out wider in Testflight below.\nNotesy: https://prairie-petition-enterprises-expressions.trycloudfla...\n- keeps the audio file\n- custom prompts to modify notes as you want\n- transcripts and notes\n- batches by people you have talked to\n- a master task list\n- Sync all files and audio and notes to Google Drive\n- Shipping now with our API for testing but you can switch to your own Gemini API in settings!\nUploading the repo shortly on github by this weekend!\nMore on the privacy features here https://x.com/jharohit/status/2084204163416601026\nOther apps we are building on similar lines of privacy and your own data and AI concept:\nAPP STORE: https://contrast-situated-priorities-leu.trycloudflare.com/","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50461424"},{"id":50462214,"author":"e12e","created_at":"2026-11-12T02:14:04.000Z","text":"Interesting. Maybe I can Kill one of my vibecoded atrocities now. It was born from similar frustrations - to find a good way to record audio for small meetings on a phone (there are foss options for Android - but I need one tool to recommend; https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Voice-Recorder might be one) - transcription and summation with speaker identification in correct language, support for using list of speaker and agenda to aid transcription - all done locally. Even getting the recorded audio from android to Mac - for example localsend can help).\nI didn't tackle all - but a few in a python script wrapped in cosmopolitan libc. Works on Mac, seemingly Linux (Terminal on chromeOS) - possibly windows (laptop just about back from repairs, not tested yet).\nIt's an experiment - source not open yet - and op is probably better.\nBut for the curious:\nhttps://hypertekst.net/steno/","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50462214"},{"id":50469329,"author":"oakst","created_at":"2026-11-12T15:46:41.000Z","text":"Congrats on the launch!\nI had a similar idea and wanted 100% local meeting recording and dictation that runs natively on Mac.\nhttps://epilude.com\nGood to see more being built in this space for local first :)","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50469329"},{"id":50458956,"author":"achrono","created_at":"2026-11-11T21:29:17.000Z","text":"OpenWhispr [1] is one of the earliest in this exact space, and it already supports a greater variety of models than Yogurt. Also supports meeting transcription, summarization, dictation etc. in similar ways as Yogurt.\nSo, why Yogurt?\n1: https://github.com/OpenWhispr/openwhispr","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50458956"},{"id":50470540,"author":"rem6630","created_at":"2026-11-12T17:05:26.000Z","text":"i'm using https://github.com/Zackriya-Solutions/meetily","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470540"},{"id":50467078,"author":"stevenhubertron","created_at":"2026-11-12T13:51:39.000Z","text":"I’ll add mine as well. Came from wanting one app not two for dictation and meeting notes with diarization and all. https://voice.baselinemakes.com","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50467078"},{"id":50470302,"author":"luc_","created_at":"2026-11-12T16:50:01.000Z","text":"Yogurt? I hate Yogurt! Especially with strawberries.","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470302"},{"id":50465894,"author":"lukko","created_at":"2026-11-12T11:55:45.000Z","text":"Thanks for building!\nI was thinking of creating a local replacement for Wispr Flow - does this have a hotkey for speech to text?","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50465894"},{"id":50457550,"author":"mickdarling","created_at":"2026-11-11T19:41:05.000Z","text":"It's a lot of fun to see what people can do with the voice transcription tools available now that are all open source.\nI've been building my own Jarvis, and I still haven't built my own meeting mode for him yet, though it's on the trajectory. I may borrow some ideas from this.\nI really like the filter for the whispered, hallucinated words that Whisper sometimes hears, like, \"Thanks for watching,\" when it's silent. That's cool.\nI do a similar splitting of speech, but I think a slightly different mechanism. So I'll have to take a look at how well yours works.\nAnd, I'm not checking the loudness of the mic and the computer audio to figure out when the speaker output is leaking. That's nice.\nIf there was anything I would add to yours, it would be diarization on the same inputs. So the room mic might have two or three people behind it, and to have diarization for that to know who is talking at any one time would be probably helpful. I use NVIDIA's Nemotron on the Mac. https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Diarization\nAnd, I have enrollment for voices with speaker embeddings using this: https://github.com/wenet-e2e/wespeaker","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50457550"},{"id":50458114,"author":"rc1","created_at":"2026-11-11T20:20:36.000Z","text":"I’d love to see evals for how similar this is to Granola for meeting summarisation, on the github page\nIt should be possible given granola stores the transcript and the summary.\nGranola has been such a fantastic sticky product for me given how simple it is: guaranteed a good summary, and a MCP that is a couple of clicks to setup with Claude/ChatGPT.","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50458114"},{"id":50455134,"author":"kokugle","created_at":"2026-11-11T16:18:18.000Z","text":"Been waiting for this for so long. very cool product","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":2,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50455134"},{"id":50457019,"author":"Aniket-N","created_at":"2026-11-11T18:52:42.000Z","text":"The electron use is giving me pause. It’s going to eat up memory.","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50457019"},{"id":50456344,"author":"walthamstow","created_at":"2026-11-11T17:56:57.000Z","text":"I made something like this myself but because I didn't want anyone to know I was doing it, no bot in the call, I couldn't diarise the notes. I have what's been said, but not who said it. Did you manage to solve this?","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":7,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50456344"},{"id":50457425,"author":"ProblemExplorer","created_at":"2026-11-11T19:30:39.000Z","text":"Great job! It's refreshing to see something not limited to Macs/Apple Silicon.\nWhen starting out, did you consider:\n- Handy, either forking it or adding PRs?\n- If you disliked the Handy UI, what about the choice of backend? Did you look into RealtimeSTT? The author is really serious about ASR and transcription\nThere are a 1000 Mac ASR and transcription projects, so it's really refreshing to see something that others outside the Mac garden can use - my worry is that by not reusing more mature foundations, you end up taking too much of a burden and burn out. The non Apple Silicon space needs more projects like these!","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":0,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50457425"},{"id":50457025,"author":"austinhutch","created_at":"2026-11-11T18:53:04.000Z","text":"Great work! Personally would love the option to skip out on some of local model post processing features or optionally offload it to openrouter, the summarization steps and the ask feature eat up tons of resources.","parent_id":50454625,"replies_count":1,"hn_url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50457025"}]}