[mleonhard]

> which took me a day to slap together and is close to free

An engineer who can slap together a good meeting transcriber in a day is probably paid $2,000 a day or more. The opportunity cost of having them work on a random project is far more than the cost of their salary. The ongoing maintenance cost of the custom meeting transcriber is probably 5-10 engineer days over its lifetime. The added utility from slightly-better meeting transcripts does not compensate for the staggering engineering cost of the custom solution.

Circleback and other meeting transcribers will surely get better and surpass the quality of the custom transcriber. Then the team must spend more time switching to Circleback and deleting the custom transcriber.