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Re:Show HN: Cleaner speaker identification for in-person meeting trans...
on Friday August 07, 2026 @07:34AM (#49208831)
Hey HN, I built Ellis, an AI notetaker for individuals, not orgs. And since my personal schedule includes meetings outside of Zoom, it was important that it works well for in-person meetings.
In fact to me, in-person conversations have always been a greater source of learning and creative ideas than virtual. On Zoom, the fixed screen and talking points tend to bring out a more transactional nature in me.
Yet building a notetaker for in-person isn't trivial. Online, each speaker has their own audio stream. In a room (or during a walk outside) everyone shares the same mic.
Models like AssemblyAI give you transcriptions with Speaker A and Speaker B, but you still have to mark yourself as the one who said X and not Y.
This is especially true if I want to get coached from my conversations. A useful use case for me as an introvert.
Here's how Ellis does this: 1) You create a voice profile of yourself (Deepgram diarization + pyannote's wespeaker model) 2) It splits the recording into speaker segments using AssemblyAI 3) It surfaces the most distinctive line from each unnamed speaker — "Moana is the best movie ever!" 4) You tap to confirm.
Remember to ask for consent! Ellis prompts you with ways to ask at the start of a recording.
Still not solved: two near-identical voices in the same room (e.g. me and my dad). Curious if anyone found a diarization approach that separates near-identical voices without per-speaker enrollment?
If you have an opinion about the tool, I'm all ears! You can try it for free.
Show HN: Chapter – Real-time lead-gen from public activity (open source)
https://github.com/chapter-gtm/chapter
Hello HN,We’re the cofounders of Chapter: an open source lead sourcing alternative, purpose-built for developer tools. Instead of throwing your credits to enrich static databases, you get daily leads sent to your inbox in real-time as they mention certain keywords publicly, filtered to match your exact ICP, and fully enriched.We’re starting with job posts and GitHub as the main two sources for...
Re:Ask HN: What startup fundraising info is missing online?
on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @03:22PM (#40859663)
Great idea. Where are you currently sourcing this info from?
Ask HN: What startup fundraising info is missing online?
I'm thinking of starting a monthly newsletter with announcements of startups (pre-seed to seed) who successfully raised, specifically built for technical founders.Please chime in with what you think would be helpful, informative, read worthy, and still missing.
Ask HN: Does anyone want an alternative to Docsend?
For the last 4-6 weeks I've been sending out pitch decks as part of our fundraising process.I'm actually a big fan of decks in general.- Great way to test an idea/narrative and get feedback - Faster to setup and share than a landing page - You can personalize them for each recipientEvery founder I spoke with told me to use Docsend. The technology behind Docsend seems simple: a wrapper using...
Show HN: Get a list of sales leads based on hiring activity or tool stack
My cofounder and I built a tool that return sales leads for technical founders/dev tools.Just enter your search criteria and we'll send you three leads for free within 48 hours.We started working on this after we struggled to find new leads matching our ICP, and found hiring data and tool stack as a good proxy for the need of our service.Link: https://chapter.show/
Re:Ask HN: Any recipe sites that start with the recipe?
on Sunday June 23, 2024 @01:51PM (#40769206)
This format is great! Thanks for the tip
Re:Ask HN: Any recipe sites that start with the recipe?
on Sunday June 23, 2024 @01:50PM (#40769202)
Thanks. Will give a try
Re:Ask HN: Any recipe sites that start with the recipe?
on Sunday June 23, 2024 @12:06PM (#40768416)
Ha. Guess you’re right. Have you?
Ask HN: Any recipe sites that start with the recipe?
All recipe sites typically force me to scroll through dozens of paragraphs and endless ads before arriving at the actual recipe.Searching on mobile typically makes this experience worse with all the pop ups.Does anyone know of recipe sites that provide the recipe and cooking instructions without the history lessons of each ingredient?
Re:Ask HN: Lead-gen tool for technical founders
on Thursday June 20, 2024 @06:14AM (#40736940)
Thanks! Good to know. Zoominfo feels expensive though.
Re:Ask HN: Lead-gen tool for technical founders
on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:09AM (#40725654)
We're currently experimenting, using a combination of scraping websites, social, job boards, and different data services.
Do I understand you correctly, that the company provided would have been a good lead, but the actual contact of the person, their role, etc was off?
Docsend Alternative with Session Replays
Re:Ask HN: Lead-gen tool for technical founders
on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @06:34AM (#40716074)
Awesome! We'll be in touch within 48 hours.
Ask HN: Lead-gen tool for technical founders
We were looking for something that takes criteria (like hiring activity, tool stack, etc) as input and returns a list of high quality sales leads.This became super important for us as our existing network (+ warm intros) quickly dried up. We’ve been doing it manually and tried several tools.The closest thing we found was Clay, a general usage lead-gen tool that sell credits to enrich your...
Re:Ask HN: Lightweight CRMs with hiring data (out-of-the-box)?
on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @03:51AM (#40582442)
This sounds interesting. I saw that you built https://datachroma.com/ - is this what you're referring to?
Re:Ask HN: Lightweight CRMs with hiring data (out-of-the-box)?
on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @11:28AM (#40575597)
Thanks! I took a look at Apollo, and even with large discount found the price quite steep.
Nice idea with scraping job sites. Have you had any luck with any particular one?
Kinda want to avoid another CRM, and just get a smart list that I can build my own workflow around.
Re:Ask HN: Lightweight CRMs with hiring data (out-of-the-box)?
on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @06:09AM (#40572641)
Have you looked for options already?
Re:Ask HN: Lightweight CRMs with hiring data (out-of-the-box)?
on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @06:08AM (#40572638)
Is the problem that this kind of tool doesn't exist because hiring data is so fragmented? Some data on different ATS platforms, some on LinkedIn, but all with restricted APIs?
Ask HN: Lightweight CRMs with hiring data (out-of-the-box)?
Hey HN!Is there a tool where I can filter by hiring activity e.g. hiring first UXResearcher or Designer, among other properties, to send more targeted emails?My co-founder and I just launched our v1, are Pre-PMF, and are looking for ways to send more targeted emails, at high volume.We're building a tool that would be great for teams hiring their first UX Researchers.It seems most CRMs have the...
Re:Ask HN: Doing customer research without the resources?
on Monday June 03, 2024 @07:39AM (#40561679)
I'm curious about this too.
Feels like you need a specific structure in place to avoid constant context switching. Also I'm guessing it depends on the level of interaction you already have with your user base, e.g. dev tools know their customers already well, but other industries less so.
Re:Ask HN: Are there no good alternatives to Crunchbase?
on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @03:50AM (#40498435)
Thanks for this overview!!!
SEC filings + crowd sourcing content seems the way to go. Plus, who wouldn't want to celebrate their latest funding round :)
Curious, how much would you pay for a service where you get the same data as crunchbase, but with a delightful UI, focused on Pre Seed to A, in a vertical like "Dev Tools"?
Re:Ask HN: Are there no good alternatives to Crunchbase?
on Thursday May 23, 2024 @09:58AM (#40454824)
Ooh, tell me more. What others?
You're probably right with average startup founder. But I'm thinking of first-timers, who haven't raised yet. For them, including me, it adds up quickly :)
Re:Ask HN: Are there no good alternatives to Crunchbase?
on Thursday May 23, 2024 @09:16AM (#40454318)
I'm also finding missing data, and data inconsistencies. Perhaps this is a case where some data is 10x better than none.
Re:Ask HN: Are there no good alternatives to Crunchbase?
on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:52AM (#40454090)
Were you trying to expert to Excel? If so, was it mainly to sort, filter, tag, etc?
Re:Ask HN: Are there no good alternatives to Crunchbase?
on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:28AM (#40453876)
Fair point. You'd probably have to have a combination of initial data load + continuous web-scraping and crowdsourcing. Perhaps it's enough to start with a celebratory page for founders to fill out
Curious, have you used Crunchbase (premium), and if so, what's bothered you the most?
Ask HN: Are there no good alternatives to Crunchbase?
All the founders I spoke with told me to go to Crunchbase for my investor research.I assuming my use-case is common: 1) search for investors that have invested in similar products/space/verticals, 2) create a list, 3) find 2nd degree connections, and 4) ask for warm intros.I found the user-experience unfriendly, the features over-blown, and the price extremely high since (they don't offer by...
Show HN: Nectar, Survey that can ask deep followup questions
Hi everyone,Shri and Robin here, cofounders of Nectar. Excited to share our v1: surveys that ask smart followup questions, with zero effort.Here’s how it works:1. You give us your email address and one sentence that describes what you’d like to test, i.e. your hypothesis2. You get a personal survey link sent to your email within 3 hours that you can review and share with others. This survey...
Re:Ask HN: Anyone written a SaaS sales agreement prior to a startup in...
on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:31AM (#38393804)
Thanks for this! We've been transparent with them from the start which helps set those expectations. Curious why you mention January?