I am really excited that you are working on this. I began working on an app extremely similar to this (down to the Twitter/IRC like notation) due to my own frustration with the inefficiency of taking meeting notes. I never finished the prototype, but I'll share my ideas that I felt were important:

* Make integration with outside parties easy (i.e. Don't force everyone in the meeting to use the app to get the benefits.) Allow me to add aliases to meeting member's e-mail addresses (i.e. @joe = joe@example.com) Allow me to e-mail a link to the minutes when the meeting is over to all parties.

* Scheduling

I should be able to send calendar invites to participants of previous meetings / define recurring meetings. If I open up the app it should know what meeting I am in by my schedule.

* Continuity

Many of my meetings are recurring meetings. At today's meeting, I want to review the open/closed items from the previous meeting. Though I still want a way to delineate what happened in today's meeting.

* Self-hostable option

For legal / contractual / paranoia reasons, I may need to keep my data in-house. For several of the groups in my company, a cloud-hosted app is a deal breaker.

* Plugins

I should be able to integrate the user directory with my company's LDAP server. I should be able to promote tasks to real tickets in my project management software. I should be able to reference items from other meetings.

Anyway, good luck with your app!

Hey, I love your take on meeting minutes and subsequent collaborative task manager. I feel that your project would benefit significantly from identifying a niche and a customer segment that is most sympathetic to your user experience.

Perhaps a "Succinct Team Messaging for Developers" or a tongue-in-cheek "Meeting Minutes DSL" would be a message more inline with a general feel of the app. At least special symbols in your meeting texts demos give a strong programming language vibe.

If you are a meeting minutes app made first and foremost by engineers and previewed on HN, you really should think about paying more attention to your early adopters -- programmers, hackers and engineers. Just a customer development thought.

Like others in the thread, I'm also impressed with how quickly and clearly the landing page video demonstrated the basic functionality.

I think you hit the sweet spot with the simplicity of the functionality shown. As you add features in the future that you'd also like to demonstrate in a video (such as calendar events, integration, etc. as suggested in the thread), just be wary of adding them all to one video and consider separate videos if they take long enough. At that point I think an A/B test would be a good idea. But back to the present, I think the current video is great!

The page works nicely, the video shows what you offer using the precise amount of my time.

What feels strange is that the UI you show in the video is not the same as the one that appears below, in the outlined iphones. My mind had to stop and guess; "ok, this is the same thing i watched in the vid".

Overall great job on the page, and the product looks interesting too. Wish you luck.

It's nice but I had similar questions as other as to whether it's usable from a web browser. Google Apps integration even just for auth would be key to using it at my company. Apparently I'll have to wait for the 70,000 people ahead of me in the invite process though.

My first thought was, can I use this on a computer. My second thought was, how I'm going to get others in my office to use it that maybe don't want another account.

I really like the idea, because nobody takes meeting minutes besides me and I'm the only one who follows up on them.

I really like the "markdown" aspect of this.

Trello and Hipchat integration would be awesome (actually, how about a nice plugin system or a way to fire off REST calls (and receive them as well))

It looks like a lot of the functionality is only shown in the video, and it moves pretty fast. I wish I could pause it.