After 7 months of building, I finally opened the early-access waitlist for Observer 🚀
Today I launched the website and early-access waitlist for Observer, an electron based macOS AI companion for meetings and work.
The goal is simple: help you stay focused in meetings with AI-powered answers, meeting notes, and recaps—all in a fast, native macOS experience.
I'm looking for honest feedback before opening access to everyone.
Does the idea resonate with you?
What's the first feature you'd want to try?
What would make you join the waitlist?
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Congrats on shipping the waitlist! The "stay present in the meeting" framing is smart — most AI meeting tools fail because they become a second screen you're glancing at, which defeats the point. Curious how you're handling latency for real-time answers without it feeling laggy or intrusive mid-conversation. Also, native macOS is a good call — the Electron meeting-assistant space is crowded, but genuinely fast and lightweight is still rare there.
Thanks! Really appreciate it.
Latency has honestly been the hardest part of building Observer. A lot of it came down to picking the right models for the job instead of always using the biggest one. I also spent a lot of time iterating on prompts and reducing unnecessary context so the models have less to process. Those optimizations ended up making a much bigger difference than I expected.
Right now, responses are typically around 2–3 seconds in majority cases, which feels fast enough to be useful during a live conversation, though I'm still trying to shave more time off.
And good catch on the native macOS mention—that was my mistake in the blog. Observer is actually built with Electron. I've updated the post now.
The idea resonates, the shift from more tabs to staying present in the meeting is the right framing. First feature I would want to try: the recap quality after a meeting with a lot of cross-talk and interruptions, that is usually where AI note-takers fall apart.
I do product testing and walkthrough videos for early tools, once you have something installable I would be glad to run it through a few messy real meeting scenarios and give you honest feedback on where the recap holds up. Following this for when access opens
Thanks for the thoughtful feedback, Obasekore—I really appreciate it.
You can request early access on the Observer website (it's completely free). I'll be sending regular updates to everyone on the waitlist, and I'm planning to launch later this month.
Early access users will also receive a special launch discount. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts once you get a chance to put Observer through those messy meeting scenarios!
What stood out to me is that you're optimizing for staying present rather than taking better notes.
Meeting assistants often become another screen competing for attention. If Observer helps people participate more while remembering everything afterward, that's a much more compelling job for the product.
Thanks! That's exactly the problem I'm trying to solve.
I don't want Observer to become another thing you have to watch during a meeting. The goal is to let you stay fully engaged in the conversation while Observer quietly captures the context and gives you a reliable answers.
If that resonates with you, feel free to request early access on the Observer website. It's free, and I'll be rolling out access and launch updates very soon. Early users will also get a special launch discount.
Appreciate the reply.
Reading it made me think about one implication of the direction you're taking that I don't think I can explain properly in a thread without oversimplifying it.
If you're interested, what's the best email to reach you on?
hello@getobserver dot app
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Thanks! I’ve just sent it over.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts whenever you have a chance.