A standup lasts ten or fifteen minutes and happens every working day. Record it on the laptop hosting the call, or let your meeting tool save it, then upload the file. The text comes back with word-level timestamps, and the transcript view on the page separates each voice. The first transcript costs nothing and opens in full at any length.
How it works
Record it the same way every day and the upload becomes muscle memory.
Switch on recording in whatever your team stands up in, or record the room on one laptop. Download the file when the call ends; a pasted Zoom link is refused, so export the file first.
Fifteen minutes is small, so it goes straight into the box here and comes back quickly. Longer recordings, to 10 hours or 5 GB, are handled the same way.
Read the whole standup in under a minute, search for a ticket number, and export TXT or MD to paste into the channel where the rest of the team follows along.
Why bother with a short meeting
One standup is trivial. Six months of searchable standups is a record of how the work actually went.
The person who would have been writing notes can take part instead, and the text of everything said is there the moment the call ends.
Someone five time zones away reads the standup rather than asking what they missed, and reads it in a fraction of the time it took to hold.
Search a week of standups for a ticket number or a feature name and read the sentence where it last came up, with the date attached.
A problem described out loud in a hurry is often clearer than the ticket comment written later.
Practical notes
Standups are fast, overlapping and full of shorthand, which makes a few habits worth having.
A six-minute recording is a perfectly good file. Each standup becomes its own transcript, which is exactly what makes a month of them searchable one day at a time.
The page view shows each person's turn separately. A downloaded TXT, DOCX, SRT or VTT is the words alone, without labels; the JSON export is the one that keeps a speaker field.
Everyone on their own microphone separates cleanly. A row of people around a single laptop microphone is where voices start to blur into one another.
You get the words that were spoken and nothing else. Writing the update your team reads stays with a person.
Pricing
Packs from $4, credits never expire and opens in full at any length, and anyone can preview with no signup. Packs are $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes and $24 for 5,000 minutes; credits never expire and there is no subscription. Details on pricing.
| Standups | Length | $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One standup | 15 min | $0.12 | $0.09 | about $0.07 |
| A week of five | 75 min | $0.60 | $0.45 | $0.36 |
| A year of 250 | 3,750 min | $30.00 | $22.50 | $18.00 |
A fifteen-minute standup every working day for a year comes to 3,750 minutes, which fits inside one $24 pack with 1,250 minutes still unused.
FAQ
No. There is no minimum length and a short recording comes back quickly. Each standup becomes its own transcript, which is what makes them searchable later.
No. Nothing joins the call. You record the standup yourself and upload the file afterwards.
No. You get every word that was spoken, with timestamps on each of them. A summary of the day is still something a person writes.
The transcript view on the page shows each voice as its own turn. TXT, DOCX, SRT and VTT downloads are the text without labels, and JSON keeps the speaker field.
Zoom links are refused. Export the recording from your conferencing service and upload that file into the box here.
Two hundred and fifty fifteen-minute standups come to 3,750 minutes: $30 on the $8 pack, $22.50 on the $12 pack or $18 on the $24 pack.
Instant preview, no signup, no card. A free account keeps every day in one searchable library.