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Show HN: TalkNotes – A site that turns your ideas into tasks (talknotes.tech)

103 points by ajlkshdaksjd ↗ HN
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

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qntmfred
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.

anonzzzies
Maybe good to have a plugin for Omi.me.
kacperlukawski
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?
ajlkshdaksjd
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 :)
jackthetab
And that's too much friction for my tastes.

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

mungoman2
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?
gtirloni
I just tried with ChatGPT, spoke freely for a few minutes and asked it to create action items. It worked really well.
mijailt
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.

jokinko
Idea looks cool, however I'd appreciate to open your landing page and have immediately a try!
monkeydust
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.
ajlkshdaksjd
Im building a trail version rn, where the user gets 3 free generations, and they they have to pay
xivzgrev
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.

vidyesh
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!
ajlkshdaksjd
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!

ramon156
> 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

oulipo
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
chadsix
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! ^^

indigodaddy
This is cool. Would love to see something similar that’s open source.
liminal-dev
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.
oth001
Sounds cool. Is there any demo video? I didn’t see one
ajlkshdaksjd
I haven't made a demo on it yet, i will be adding it very soon
evanjrowley
This is what I want, except totally private and end-to-end encrypted.
ajlkshdaksjd
Im glad my app is exactly what you needed :)
thedangler
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.
vednig
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

katzskat
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.
weaksauce
cool workflow... is this documented anywhere?
maxrmk
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.
superasn
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.

vunderba
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."

ahardison
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

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

dotancohen 

  > 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?

rkuodys
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

ajlkshdaksjd
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