Show HN: We built a live bookmarking tool for Zoom

Hello HN! We are Nishith and Deepa and we built Listener as an easy way to bookmark the important moments of your Zoom calls in real time and turn long recordings into short video clips.

Last year while working on another product, we were doing customer interviews on Zoom. We were recording all these meetings, but then what? It was simply too painful to go back and rewatch those one hour long recordings to get to that one point that we wanted to share or remember. That was the genesis of Listener.

We quickly built a proof-of-concept but it took a while to refine the flow and make it a seamless experience. Now you can easily integrate Zoom with Listener, host a Zoom meeting, record it and start live bookmarking on Listener in a small browser window alongside Zoom. Behind the scenes, Listener processes the live video stream coming from Zoom, transcribes it and creates 20s short clips around your bookmarks. Later on, editing these short clips is as easy as editing a word doc.

It’s currently on the web and the one constraint right now is that it works only with paid (pro/business/etc) Zoom accounts. This is because we are using Zoom’s live streaming feature to receive the video stream. We are working simultaneously on an electron based desktop app to support the free Zoom users who are recording meetings on their computer, but our desktop app is still quite raw. Let us know in the comments here if the support for the free Zoom account is important to you and we will prioritise it accordingly.

And if you are curious, the web app is built using the MERN stack plus GraphQL and Elasticsearch. Our transcript+video-editor is built with SlateJS. We are using Gatsby and Strapi for the marketing pages.

Listener is free for a month and we are personally onboarding new users. We'd love to get some feedback on whether you would find this useful or if there are any general comments or concerns.