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Show HN: TalkNotes – A site that turns your ideas into tasks (talknotes.tech)
103 points by ajlkshdaksjd 5 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 43 comments
Hey all!

I created TalkNotes few weeks ago and it started getting traction in hours. It quickly went from 0 -> $700 revenue with One time payment and I decided to remove the one time payment, the line went straight down but since then it rising little by little and has now reached $150 MRR. I'm stoked since this is one of my best projects.

The idea is to speak freely into a microphone about anything on your mind—meetings, emails, tasks—and let AI help organize it all. It turns your thoughts into a structured to-do list, notes, flashcards, and more. I created it because spending 15 minutes every day setting up traditional productivity apps is a waste of time. I thought it might resonate with others looking for a similar solution.

There's a fair bit of churn since I think with something like this users either love it or never end up using it. I could probably add some more retention strategies like reminders and other productivity tools integration like Google Calendar, and more...

If this sounds interesting, I’d love to hear your thoughts or suggestions. Feel free to share how you currently manage your daily tasks—always keen to learn from this community.

Here's the link if you want to have a look: http://talknotes.tech






I just built something analogous using Shortcuts, Claude, and Logseq. The shortcut uses iOS dictation, sends the transcript with a system prompt to Claude, and the llm returns summarized markdown with TODO keywords if appropriate. Finally the shortcut appends the markdown to the local Logseq journal file, which then gets synchronized using git / Working Copy.

Seconding the other commenter, I’d love a more detailed version of how you do this. I looked into doing something similar with voice memos and couldn’t figure it out.

I did something vaguely similar using a discord bot and Whisper https://github.com/volker48/disco-whisper

cool workflow... is this documented anywhere?

It just takes me to the pricing page after signup and I can't access anything.

Pretty sure this is against the Show Hn guidelines.


Nice but I feel there will be a lot of open-source "bring your own key" equivalents soon, since this is basically just putting Whisper in front of a MCP server

The testimonials are fake, as far as I can tell¹.

I became immediately suspicious when I saw star ratings and @ usernames for Reddit users with no links. So I searched.

Two of the Reddit users don’t exist at all:

https://www.reddit.com/user/Udupi_S/

https://www.reddit.com/user/ching_c2/

The third only posted once, 8 years ago²:

https://www.reddit.com/user/startup_founder/

The fourth one did comment about this, though of course there are no stars:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1hs9jem/commen...

Same thing with the HN (I assume, from the icon) testimonials. One user doesn’t exist:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=techie42

The other hasn’t posted in 12 years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=devhacker

This frankly looks like you asked an LLM to create “real-looking” testimonials for an app and decided to fake your way in. Not the first time I see these shenanigans.

¹ https://i.imgur.com/UAASkDR.png

² It was not about this app, but do read the post. It’s a hilariously dumb idea.


OP also mistakenly commented from his main account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910261

For posterity's sake: his main account is: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jaynpatel , interestingly the submissions page is full of dead Show HN's of all the things he's "made".


I use a similar homegrown system. This approach has unlocked a lot of great thinking for me. I hope it catches on.

fwiw yapthread.com is another product offering in this space.


https://voicenotes.com/ is also kinda in the space.

Looks like a great idea, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to try it for free, which is an immediate pass for me.

I built a recording app long ago (a year) but never found out the time to put in the features like these I had originally intended. This seems like a good callback post to start working on it.

I think this is a future worth exploring with AI, btw congrats on the launch.

[1] https://recorder.betaco.tech


Idea looks cool, however I'd appreciate to open your landing page and have immediately a try!

Yea this, need to give people a quick hit. Perhaps create an account, 30 mins free or something that is manageable from a cost point of view. Theres a lot of tools around now so you goto try harder to get attention.

Im building a trail version rn, where the user gets 3 free generations, and they they have to pay

Id consider offering more in free trial. AI is still nascent people need to figure out how it’s valuable to them. Plus AI can be rife with errors. How do you give potential customers enough data for them to figure out whether it’s reliable enough for them and to make it a habit?

I’d say 1 free week or 100 free recordings. If you aren’t sure of trying that, you can always position it as a limited time offer and roll it back.

In any case at least a few demos would be helpful.


Nice project! Very polished. It reminds me of a prototype I built a couple years ago: https://github.com/ikhare/just-speak

Awesome to see these ideas turn into real products. Congrats.


Thank you :)

I made something like this, but it does not stop at tasks; uses agents to help you achieve the desired outcome.

Codify Your Solution: If you have a problem, we’ll find a solution. Already have one? Provide details (URL, text, audio recording or file upload). We’ll convert it into a structured program and assign an AI agent to guide you to your desired outcome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIaJZ13A0UQ&t=11s

https://codify.digital


Looks cool.

Just a heads up, the pricing page says the yearly plan is $90/yearly or $15/month billed annualy (grey text under "Yearly"). I'm guessing it should say $7.5/month.


fixed the typo, Thanks :)

From the landing page I really can't tell what this does.

I'd start by trying to clarify how this is any different than turning on Dictation Mode in the ChatGPT mobile app with a custom GPT prompt of something along the lines of:

"The user will be providing a running stream of thoughts, ideas, and misc text. Please transform the text into a set of actionable items. For complicated items, use nested bullet points."


  > Record and transcribe in your language with support for 100+ languages worldwide.
  > English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Italian
I speak a language not on that list. How can I know if it is supported?

Are there any data export feature? Can I download everything in text files? Org mode?

Does the Flashcards feature integrate into Anki?


With AI people will be easy to roll your own anything. Companies will be able to say clone sales force but tailored to our needs. Saving millions a year in sales force custom crap.

This looks really neat! Congrats on the launch!

I'm building an AI wrapper product as well. Would love to exchange notes about distribution and marketing strategy you followed.


Congrats on the launch! I think integrations would be great, this notes could be a common place to aggregate everything and act as an AI agent to fill data in other places too!

Thank you, Yes i have plan for each feature like the todo list will have other productivity tools integration like google calander, todoist and more... the notes will have features like share, edit, change the style.

I am also thinking of swapping the flashcard features with Playground where you can choose over +100 premade styles like video script, newletter, blog post, journal, tweet, podcast planner, podcast script....or create your own!


Very cool! As I understand the flow is transcription with whisper, followed by note generation with GPT4. I guess the prompts in the second step is the secret sauce?

I just tried with ChatGPT, spoke freely for a few minutes and asked it to create action items. It worked really well.

Is there a free trial available? Even 24 hours should be enough to say if I like it, but currently I have to pay from the day one. Or did I miss it?

Hi, there are no free trials yet, but we do offer 14 days refund no questions asked. You can test it out and if it does not fit your needs, request for a refund :)

And that's too much friction for my tastes.

Thanks, though, and good luck. Imma' keep lookin'.


> is a waste of time

Why? You still have to brainstorm the core concept. 15 mins on paper vs 15 mins of talking. I like the idea though


Looks kinda cool. Would love a trial. Subscribe doesn't work - 500 error on api/checkout.

This is what I want, except totally private and end-to-end encrypted.

Im glad my app is exactly what you needed :)

I've tried to log in and use the product - there is a button "Try for free". However, after login I'm redirected to billing with no way of trying anything without payment.

I hope this is not intentional, but seeing this _dishonest_ approach it prevents me from exploring the product further, as I'm not sure what else might be hidden underneath


Hi, sorry thats a typo, It should say get 'Get Started', as the app does not have a free trial yet, but im working on providing one rn

Sounds cool. Is there any demo video? I didn’t see one

I haven't made a demo on it yet, i will be adding it very soon

Maybe good to have a plugin for Omi.me.

Great Job!

I built something similar but different -- specifically just for tasks without voice -- https://asht.ar -- that might be worth checking out!

We are at 1000+ users and growing! ^^


This is cool. Would love to see something similar that’s open source.



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