Been working on a solution to my meeting fatigue. I sit in way too many of them where I'm only there "just in case someone has a question" and realized I needed a way to safely not care about my meetings.
The idea is: you join a meeting, hit start on the app, minimize, and go do actual work (or go make a coffee). When someone says your name or any keyword(s) you set, you get a native macOS notification with enough context to jump back in without looking lost. It uses whisper and is 100% local and doesnt leave traces, also very OE friendly.
Would love to hear what you think, especially if you're drowning in meetings too.
How is this different than @‘ing someone in the chat apps we all already use, and that you’ll actually be responding to the ping in?
pingmebud is the equivalent to having @-mentions but in voice calls. Imagine a standup meeting at work where someone says "what do you think about this, John?" and you were not paying attention and have no idea about what the context of the conversation is. My app solves that.
But then you weren't paying attention.
You context switch back and take 2 minutes (at best... much longer than if you were in the actual conversation paying attention) to answer. Now everyone else in the realtime conversation is waiting on your answer because you were expected to be in the conversation as well. That doesn't seem like good UX to me.