Why I'm building a note taking app without AI

dumbmrblah•about 3 hours ago

The money is in B2B. This is nice as a hobby project, but it won’t scale beyond that as meeting transcriptions/summarization are an actual business force multiplier.

I wouldn’t quit your day job to go all in on this.

davnicwil•about 3 hours ago

It's 100% intended for use in businesses!

I guess the whole point of it is that it isn't a transcription / automated summary tool :-)

It's a tool for people who want to use their own brain to pick out the key notes and actions in a meeting and get (and create!) a lot of value by doing so - not hand this off to AI.

Obviously some will do that but this tool isn't for them. It's not for everyone.

vouaobrasil•about 1 hour ago

Are you also not using AI to program it? Or is it just a program that's not integrated with AI?

davnicwil•27 minutes ago

Ha, it's an ambiguous title. Yeah the post is about not using AI in the actual note-taking process.

You will be unsurprised to learn though that I largely haven't used AI to program it.

The main ways I do are documentation/research questions, obviously autocomplete when writing code (which I do, still exclusively in an editor), and some ancillary scripts and tools.

gnabgib•about 6 hours ago

Can we expect another comment or 3 from asura5?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956314

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952724

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202090

all2•about 5 hours ago

How do people even find this kind of thing? Is it manually? Are there search tools for this?

davnicwil•about 5 hours ago

deleted comment - I will never learn to ignore this kinda thing (referring to GP comment).

It's difficult to not get defensive when you put a lot of work into something and you receive what you feel are very unfair / unjustified comments.

Of course like anyone, when I do a substantial launch on HN I do tell friends. Most probably the referenced comments came from one of my friends trying to be helpful, but I don't actually know that - I have no idea who the account is in fact.

But I feel (perhaps wrongly) an accusatory tone in the very deliberate pointing out of this, and I just don't understand what is trying to be acheived. If you look at my submission history, comment history, and account age here I think one could probably assume good intentions and treat my submissions here with grace and benefit of the doubt.

But anyway, I regret making the original defensive comment and have re-learned the lesson to not do this as it just detracts from the quality of discourse. My bad.

all2•about 5 hours ago

Not what GP was going for, I think. They called out a green user with a very specific comment history and made no comment about this submission.

Why I'm building a note taking app without AI

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