Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
davnicwil
11 points
10 comments
July 22, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
gnabgib
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
dumbmrblah
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.
vouaobrasil
Are you also not using AI to program it? Or is it just a program that's not integrated with AI?