Nearly all existing meeting tools start and end with documents. We think that's the wrong answer. You don't want enhanced notes, you just want to ask "what did we decide about pricing?" 3 weeks later and just get the answer directly. Hyper is an iOS voice AI for IRL conversations (1:1s, coffee chats, walks). One tap record, ask it anything mid-conversations with "hey hyper", or after to find answers across everything you've ever recorded. Perfect memory without files or folders or organization.
Hey PH! I'm Shalin, building Hyper with my co-founder Kanyes.
At our last company (a robotics startup), the most important decisions never happened in scheduled meetings. They happened spontaneously (in hallways, over lunch, on walks). None of it got captured. And every recorder we tried was built for Zoom calls with agendas, not for real life.
What we realized was that even the tools that DO capture your conversations give you a document, a summary, or notes as the final artifact. And then what? You file it somewhere, never open it again, and three weeks later you're in another meeting going "wait, what did we decide about the deadline?"
We think the whole paradigm is wrong. You don't want better documents from your conversations. You want answers to your questions.
So we built Hyper. It's an iOS app where you tap to record any conversation (a 1:1 with your cofounder, a coffee chat, a standup, a brainstorming session). Then Hyper transcribes in real-time, and you can ask it questions mid-conversation ("hey hyper, what did we decide about pricing last time?") without breaking flow. Afterward, it generates notes and gives you one tap follow-ups (email drafts, slack messages) that integrate natively on your phone.
We're starting with this, but over the longer-term, we'd like to build a memory layer across every important conversation you've ever had. No files or folders or manual organization, just ask and get the answer. We're building towards a system that can resolve conflicting information, surface stale decisions, and untangle the messiest problems your team faces.
We're currently two founders, self-funded, building in SF. The design is intentionally bold and a bit weird. We wanted something that feels a bit more fun that traditional enterprise software, and ultimately something we ourselves would fall in love with. We'd love for you to try it in your next real conversation and tell us what you think.
It would be great for a meeting assistant to have memory. It would be even better if it can autonomously perform low-risk actions that were agreed upon on the call. Just a thought.
Turning conversations into something you can actually query later instead of just storing notes makes a lot of sense. How does Hyper handle situations where multiple people are speaking and it needs to attribute statements correctly?
As someone who's spent afternoons debugging a conversation I half-remember from standup, the idea of searchable real-world transcripts feels like replacing a whiteboard with a time machine. Curious how you handle the inevitable "I didn't actually mean that" moments when colleagues request deletions.
Heyy Shalin, nice launch! I've been waiting for something like this for ages. Out of curiosity, how are you approaching the consent issue? Are users expected to ask everyone if they could record them, does the platform offer any support for this issue?
One question: how does Hyper handle sensitive conversations? For 1:1s with cofounders or investor calls, some people will want certain things off the record. Is there a quick way to pause recording without it feeling disruptive? Congrats on the launch!
Capturing the conversation isn't the hard part — it's retrieval without noise. An hour of meeting has maybe 3 minutes of actual signal: the decision, the unresolved tension, the thing that got glossed over. Curious how Hyper handles the signal-to-noise problem — does it surface by time, by participant, or by something semantic?
Shalin Shah
Hey PH! I'm Shalin, building Hyper with my co-founder Kanyes.
At our last company (a robotics startup), the most important decisions never happened in scheduled meetings. They happened spontaneously (in hallways, over lunch, on walks). None of it got captured. And every recorder we tried was built for Zoom calls with agendas, not for real life.
What we realized was that even the tools that DO capture your conversations give you a document, a summary, or notes as the final artifact. And then what? You file it somewhere, never open it again, and three weeks later you're in another meeting going "wait, what did we decide about the deadline?"
We think the whole paradigm is wrong. You don't want better documents from your conversations. You want answers to your questions.
So we built Hyper. It's an iOS app where you tap to record any conversation (a 1:1 with your cofounder, a coffee chat, a standup, a brainstorming session). Then Hyper transcribes in real-time, and you can ask it questions mid-conversation ("hey hyper, what did we decide about pricing last time?") without breaking flow. Afterward, it generates notes and gives you one tap follow-ups (email drafts, slack messages) that integrate natively on your phone.
We're starting with this, but over the longer-term, we'd like to build a memory layer across every important conversation you've ever had. No files or folders or manual organization, just ask and get the answer. We're building towards a system that can resolve conflicting information, surface stale decisions, and untangle the messiest problems your team faces.
We're currently two founders, self-funded, building in SF. The design is intentionally bold and a bit weird. We wanted something that feels a bit more fun that traditional enterprise software, and ultimately something we ourselves would fall in love with. We'd love for you to try it in your next real conversation and tell us what you think.
— Shalin & Kanyes