We've created a meeting bot that integrates with the 3 major meeting platforms (Zoom / Teams / Microsoft Teams), and then gives users:
- the transcript,
- a ChatGPT summary,
- the video recording
- avideo-reel of the meeting higlights, along with GPT summaries of the meeting highlights.<p>=> https://spoke.app<p>Unfortunately, due to various reasons, we haven't had the success we hoped for, although the sector in general (AI video meeting assistants) was and is still booming.<p>One reason why we often failed to convince companies were privacy and security reasons.<p>1. Do you think companies could be easier to convince as regards security if the main aspects of the app were open-source?<p>2. Do you think that by open-sourcing our meeting bot, we could be the "pick and shovel" for this new AI assistant meeting boom? What potential risks and benefits do you see to that?
Are you a software company selling software? Then probably not. Are you a software service company selling the convenience of running your software for a relatively competitive price? Then yes.<p>There are some who will just grab your software and run it locally, but those people were unlikely to be your customers anyways. And then there are those who will pay you to run the software so they don’t have to spend their own engineering resources on it. These are your customers.<p>Unless something in your code is secret or the software is so trivial to run reliably and keep up to date I see no reason to keep most SaaS software closed source.
it looks like an interesting concept, I would love to try it !<p>I work on B2B SaaS applications for medium/large industrial company and I don't think open source would improve your security posture for this type of client. IT departments have to evaluate vendors against a set of criteria and you pass or fail. if they are worried about the confidentiality of their data, then another approach would be to let them run your chatbot in their own cloud environment (or on premises).<p>this approach is appealing for a lot of companies. for instance, just looking at Azure, if you make your application part of the MS Transact program, then the client would simply pay their monthly/annual azure subscription and your license would just be a line item on it. this may seem pointless but large corp tend to negotiate deals with cloud providers and negotiate a better deal provide they spend a certain amount per year. if your solution helps them achieve this amount, it's very appealing<p>Beyond that, you can work on complying with SOCII or other programs
<i>One reason we failed to convince companies were privacy and security.</i><p>Business is like dating. They're just "not that into you," and will
offer the most ready response to make you go away.<p>I can assure you open-sourcing your chatbot won't change their minds.
It's not like they have personnel eagerly waiting to vet your code for
vulnerabilities.