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First off, I absolutely LOVE these write-ups. That being said I chuckled at this one: >Tetra – Automatic notes for business meetings >A lot of meeting notes a

First off, I absolutely LOVE these write-ups. That being said I chuckled at this one: >Tetra – Automatic notes for business meetings >A lot of meeting notes are taken in Evernote but Tetra takes call notes for you by automatically dialing you to merge into the call and then sending you a fully searchable record of the entire conversation. It comes in auto speech only or human edited using a fast transcription feature for 50 cents a minute from humans. There may be some ethical challenges around recording others and each person using the service will need to inform those on the call they are being recorded but with two billion hours of conference calls a year, Tetra plans to take on that market using it’s AI and data. The startup launched on Product Hunt a week ago and now has two paid monthly users. >The startup launched on Product Hunt a week ago and now has two paid monthly users. >two paid monthly users. Yes, two. But still, any traction is better than no traction! I love a lot of the ideas but am sceptical about most of them. Good luck to each company!

jgoldsmith 10y ago
thanks! try us out https://asktetra.com https://asktetra.com and maybe we'll get to 3 :)
- martalist 10y ago
  Your answer made me chuckle in a good way - great way to turn a potential negative into something funny and positive! I'm sure I'm not the only one checking out your site because of this.
  - nojvek 10y ago
    When Dropbox first came out, I remember a similar Comment. "Why would anyone use this when you have rsync". They don't have any paying customer. Speech -> annotated searchable text is a humongous market. I really hope you guys and gals kill it.
GFischer 10y ago
My wife has some hearing problems and pays for an automatic speech to text in her voice messages. There are some hilarious errors but it's surprisingly readable. So it's necessary for some people. I definitely wouldn't mind such a service in our meetings provider, but the company currently uses either Skype or Go2Meeting (EDIT: I see it can dial in. I might try it :) ). I worry about confidentiality as well (the CSO would have my hide if some of the future projects are leaked due to such a service). It's an extra I could provide in my very own startup though :) (we're still struggling with core features so not for version 1).
chaostheory 10y ago
I'm probably wrong but imo YC funding startups like Tetra fits more in the spirit of YC's original mission of seeding startups, compared to funding more 'mature' startups that seem to be either raising or really close to raising series A.
- jkarneges 10y ago
  Totally. I was advising a friend about whether to apply to YC, and there was a concern about whether his app had enough downloads to get accepted. Stepping back, that seems like a really strange thing to be worrying about. It's refreshing to see Tetra in the batch. I wonder, does YC still fund founders with no ideas? Or take them up on the secondary idea, which may imply abandoning any progress on the primary idea?
  - GFischer 10y ago
    I'm happy to see them too - the last batches had a lot of more mature companies and almost no "seed stage" startups. I think I read in a comment that they're no longer accepting teams without ideas and that the experimental batch ended up pretty badly.

jgoldsmith 10y ago

thanks! try us out https://asktetra.com https://asktetra.com and maybe we'll get to 3 :)

martalist 10y ago
Your answer made me chuckle in a good way - great way to turn a potential negative into something funny and positive! I'm sure I'm not the only one checking out your site because of this.
- nojvek 10y ago
  When Dropbox first came out, I remember a similar Comment. "Why would anyone use this when you have rsync". They don't have any paying customer. Speech -> annotated searchable text is a humongous market. I really hope you guys and gals kill it.

GFischer 10y ago

My wife has some hearing problems and pays for an automatic speech to text in her voice messages. There are some hilarious errors but it's surprisingly readable. So it's necessary for some people. I definitely wouldn't mind such a service in our meetings provider, but the company currently uses either Skype or Go2Meeting (EDIT: I see it can dial in. I might try it :) ). I worry about confidentiality as well (the CSO would have my hide if some of the future projects are leaked due to such a service). It's an extra I could provide in my very own startup though :) (we're still struggling with core features so not for version 1).

chaostheory 10y ago

I'm probably wrong but imo YC funding startups like Tetra fits more in the spirit of YC's original mission of seeding startups, compared to funding more 'mature' startups that seem to be either raising or really close to raising series A.

jkarneges 10y ago
Totally. I was advising a friend about whether to apply to YC, and there was a concern about whether his app had enough downloads to get accepted. Stepping back, that seems like a really strange thing to be worrying about. It's refreshing to see Tetra in the batch. I wonder, does YC still fund founders with no ideas? Or take them up on the secondary idea, which may imply abandoning any progress on the primary idea?
- GFischer 10y ago
  I'm happy to see them too - the last batches had a lot of more mature companies and almost no "seed stage" startups. I think I read in a comment that they're no longer accepting teams without ideas and that the experimental batch ended up pretty badly.