Show HN: Amurex – A cursor like copilot for meetings but also open source
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11 months ago
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tldr:

I built Amurex, an open source Chrome extension for meeting transcription, real-time suggestions, and automated follow-ups.

I’ve tried every transcription and meeting tool out there, and none of them worked the way I needed. So, I built Amurex:

- No clunky bots joining or announcing themselves.

- Accurate, clean transcripts delivered right after the meeting.

- Auto-generated follow-ups that I can edit and send in seconds.

But most importantly, it is the only meeting copilot that does:

- Real-time suggestions during meetings to help me stay focused (or at least less miserable).

It’s also fully open source because I believe good tools shouldn’t be locked behind paywalls.

If you’ve ever struggled to stay engaged in meetings or needed quick, reliable transcripts and follow-ups. I’d love to hear what the community thinks!

pmarreck
10 months ago
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Why did you go with... A Chrome-extension-first strategy?

And what does this actually use underneath to convert the raw audio into text?

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not_your_vase
11 months ago
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  > It’s also fully open source...
  > I’d love to hear what the community thinks!
https://github.com/thepersonalaicompany/amurex/blob/main/ser... - I get it, it's on github, but the storage doesn't make it open source on its own, unfortunately.
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arsenkk
11 months ago
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It is. You can use your storage or fork and alter it if you don't like the default.
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not_your_vase
11 months ago
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Isn't it like saying "Windows is open source, since if you don't like it, you can just delete it and install FreeBSD"? OpenAI doesn't really have any realistic alternative that's not only in name open.
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arsenkk
11 months ago
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Ubuntu comes bundled with NVIDIA drivers and snap store. Would you say they are not open source either?
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not_your_vase
11 months ago
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Nvidia drivers have 100% open source alternatives, just like snap store. It takes 5 minutes of work to get rid of these, and lose 0% functionality. Not like removing OpenAI and substituting with... what exactly?
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franga2000
10 months ago
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I somewhat agree with the original point, but this here is just nonsense. Open source NVIDIA drivers are nowhere close to a replacement for the proprietary ones.

If anything, you'd probably lose less accuracy in this project by replacing ChatGPT with one of the Llama variants than than you'd lose graphics performance by switching an Ubuntu desktop from noveau to nvidia.

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not_your_vase
10 months ago
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I see. Well, from my point of view saying that this project is fully open source (this is the 2nd time I quote these words from you) is nonsense, while being only a thin wrapper over a proprietary API.
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daureg
11 months ago
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How does the Late Join Recap feature work? The gif shows a google meet window, but in my experience of joining late, none of the previous audio or chat messages are available (at least in the UI, I never checked the API https://developers.google.com/meet/api/guides/artifacts but I doubt a random participant would have access to it).
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arsenkk
11 months ago
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You need someone else in your meeting to be using Amurex, since the transcription for someone else is already happening, we reuse that to give you the recap.
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bazhand
10 months ago
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Post sign-up, hitting "Connect Google Services" received this error.

You can’t sign in because this app sent an invalid request. You can try again later or contact the developer about this issue. Learn more about this error If you are a developer of this app, see error details. Error 400: redirect_uri_mismatch

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arsenkk
10 months ago
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Thanks for pointing it out! Fixing it
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arsenkk
10 months ago
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upd: just fixed that
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donclark
11 months ago
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I'm a noob. Is it possible to run this outside of a browser, like an exe or?
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arsenkk
11 months ago
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Not yet. For now it's a browser extension for chromium browsers
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ramon156
10 months ago
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How does this compare to fireflies.ai?
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arsenkk
10 months ago
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Amurex is just objectively better ;)
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stuartjohnson12
11 months ago
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Don't understand the HN half-open source hate. It wasn't very long ago everyone here was wringing their hands when an MIT open source company had their everything ripped and renamed.

Sure there was controversy there enough to stop the project there, but where you license with MIT you open yourself up to grift on the margins.

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arsenkk
11 months ago
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I agree. People want to act like purists and want everything under MIT. However we know a lot of free riders exist and MIT won't be sustainable.
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jackxnight
11 months ago
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It uses AGPL. I wouldn't call it "open source"
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freeone3000
11 months ago
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It’s incredibly open! You can examine it, modify it, and even publish your modifications under the same license! You just can’t steal it and sell it as your own.
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sansyrox
11 months ago
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Precisely.
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arsenkk
11 months ago
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The OSI committee wouldn't agree with you. But to each their own I suppose
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sansyrox
11 months ago
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I never understand the hate against AGPL tbh
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TeMPOraL
11 months ago
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Insecurity and/or desire to maybe monetize your code somehow, somewhen.
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sansyrox
11 months ago
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You mean ability to take someone else’s code without attribution?
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