AlgoMommy organizes raw video files into an existing folder hierarchy based on short spoken instructions you say inside the recording (e.g. “Hey Cleo, this is wedding B-roll - tag it green” or “Hey Cleo, this is a New York sunrise”). After recording, drop the clips into AlgoMommy; it listens for the instructions you said during recording and copies the files to the appropriate sub-folder.

Download (DMG):

- https://download.algomommy.com/app/macos/public/AlgoMommy-1....

- 492 MB - most of this is WhisperKit, signed & notarized

- sha256: de354d073467aece719433f170f1886c5ab781835e4caccc4054827ee3320ee5

Demo video (48s):

- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucj-D9yOKBc

- Raw MP4: https://download.algomommy.com/public/AlgoMommy.mp4

Try it now:

1) Install the DMG and log in with this shared demo account:

  user: hn@algomommy.com
  pass: hnpass2026

3) Drag & drop a few videos and click "Organize videos"

Auth is required because the service uses paid LLM calls.

What leaves your machine / privacy:

- No raw video or audio is uploaded.

- Audio is extracted + transcribed locally.

- The only data sent is: (1) ~30s text transcription snippets for segments that appear to address “Cleo”, and (2) the list of relative destination folder paths under the root you selected (so the model can choose a folder).

- Those snippets are used to decide destination folder + tags/metadata.

Why “Cleo” (and why natural language):

- WhisperKit is accurate but slow, Apple's SpeechAnalyzer is fast but less accurate. AlgoMommy uses SpeechAnalyzer to quickly find "Cleo"-addressed segments, then re-transcribes just those ~30s chunks with WhisperKit for accuracy.

Safety:

- AlgoMommy only "copies" videos, it never "moves" / "overwrites" videos.

Inspiration:

- Initially this was a Python script for my partner, to solve this very issue. I subsequently decided to "productize" the solution as a macOS app.

I’m looking for feedback on:

1) Does this solve a significant problem for you?

2) Is the workflow clear and robust in real-world usage?

3) Today you must pre-create the folder hierarchy: is that acceptable, or should the app be able to create target folders in some cases? If folder creation is valuable, what rules would make it safe/predictable?

4) Any voice commands you’d want beyond “organize/tag this clip” (e.g. “start a new video file here”)?

Happy to answer questions and go deep on implementation details if anyone’s interested.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620131

Points: 1

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This has been a fun project so far for me:

* First time using Claude Code. CC has made writing code fun again (I'm an experienced software developer, with - gasp - over 20 years of professional experience).

* On macOS, WhisperKit + Apple Intelligence (SpeechAnalyzer) is a powerful combination for offline transcription.

If you're interested in joining the beta, feel free to send me an email: diarmuid.glynn@gmail.com. The software is working now, but the documentation and website ( https://www.algomommy.com/ ) are unfinished, so I'd like to provide direct support to any interested beta users.

I'm curious, what on-device text-to-speech engine did you use?

I would have liked to also provide a Google Doc plugin, but the Google Docs APIs [1] don't provide the required capabilities (specifically: a way to create tracked changes). Word's Add-In APIs [2] are also limited in some regards, but since they let you manipulate raw OOXML, you can work around those limitations for the most part.

[1] https://developers.google.com/workspace/docs/api/how-tos/ove...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/word?view=w...

- LegalJoe: AI-powered contract reviews for startups, at the "tech demo" phase right now: https://www.legaljoe.ai/

- ClipMommy: A macOS tool to help (professionals who record a lot of videos | influencers) organize their raw video clips. Simply drag a folder of "disorganized" videos onto ClipMommy, and ClipMommy organizes the videos into folders / subfolders, adding tags, based upon some special statements that you can make at either the start or the end of your video (think audio-based "clapboard"). I'm expecting to release this within a week or two on the Mac App Store (Apple allowing...).

As an aside, I've been very impressed with Claude Code, it's (for me at least!) leading the way for how the next generation of business software might leverage AI. I plan to iterate on LegalJoe to make more "agentic" as a result of what I've seen is possible in Claude Code.

Docs: https://suresheet-docs.equalto.com/

JS Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/48mf6bqn/

GitHub: https://github.com/EqualTo-Software/SureSheet

Built using EqualTo Sheets: https://sheets.equalto.com/#/license/access

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35786559

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

That said, I think 8n4vidtmkvmk has a point that it would be nice if when authoring the Sheet Markup, edits in the spreadsheet preview would be applied "in kind" to the Sheet Markup (bidirectional sync). This would mean you could author the Sheet Markup using the spreadsheet preview, instead of relying 100% on Sheet Markup for authoring.

> Asking because your subprocessors list doesn't give an immediate answer.

Fair complaint :) I'll update our subprocesser page tomorrow to make this clearer.

Some of the tech is open source ( https://github.com/EqualTo-Software/stackedit-sheet-markup ) and some of it depends on tech in our closed-source EqualTo Sheets product ( https://sheets.equalto.com/ ), which is in beta right now. We've considered open-sourcing some / all of EqualTo Sheets, and it may yet happen, but it's not something I could commit to right now.

So, regarding EqualTo Sheets:

> What happens with the data I enter?

Data entered into an EqualTo Sheets workbook is saved to the EqualTo server.

This is to some extent the value we provide with EqualTo Sheets: you can just paste the code snippet we provide into your code base and immediately have a functioning workbook that saves changes and supports parallel editing.

> Can I use an API to dump and restore data and formulas?

Yes, we have a bunch of APIs. You can export / import XLSX, as well as read / write individual cells using REST and GraphQL APIs. Some more details:

- https://sheets.equalto.com/beta-readme

- https://sheets.equalto.com/docs/

- Join the open beta (just provide an email address and click on a link in the email you receive): https://sheets.equalto.com/

If you inspect the "Network" tab in Chrome and you can verify that there isn't any network I/O after you modify the markdown.

Edit: and thanks for the complement! I should mention that most of the look-and-feel is courtesy of StackEdit:

- https://stackedit.io/

Our contribution was to extend StackEdit to render spreadsheets using our Sheet Markup syntax.

I've sent a mail to the gmail referenced in your profile page.

Feel free to reach out (email in my profile) if you'd like to discuss how Sheet Markdown could be added to KeenWrite. Assuming you're displaying the preview using some sort of modern HTML render with canvas support, it should be pretty easy to do.

Very powerful, but I found it challenging to remember the syntax since I was only using them intermittently. Still, it could indeed form the basis of a more advanced spreadsheet markup syntax, supporting things like merged cells (which Sheet Markup does not, and probably never will, support).

I've heard of, but never used, the emacs spreadsheet / org mode stuff. I should probably review it for concepts that I could steal / be inspired by ;P

    =SUM(B2:B7)

For now, I'm treating Sheet Markup as an external DSL, which can be embedded in a Markdown document using a fenced code block. But there are certainly benefits (and costs) to developing an internal DSL for spreadsheets along the lines of what you're suggesting.

One thing I should mention, we have another tool which makes it easy to embed a spreadsheet in another app via an IFRAME:

- https://www.equalto.com/suresheet

The benefit of using the above is that Sure Sheet URL will always load the "same" spreadsheet. Edits aren't automatically saved, unlike (say) a Google Sheet.