January 14, 2026
Bot takes notes, takes heat
Show HN: Harmony – AI notetaker for Discord
Discord gets an AI secretary — fans cheer, pros side-eye privacy
TLDR: Harmony is an AI assistant for Discord that records, transcribes, and summarizes calls. The crowd splits: some love convenience, others worry about privacy and want Slack/Zoom support; open-source fans tout Craig plus Whisper as cheaper, more controllable.
Harmony showed up pitching itself as an AI notetaker for Discord—recording calls, turning speech into text, and auto-summarizing. But the real show was the comments. Some cheered, calling it “finally, a bot that remembers what we promised.” Others gave it side-eye for running a company on a gamer chat app.
User barishnamazov fired the opening shot: are you really keeping a team on Discord forever? They argued bigger outfits that care about operations and privacy gravitate to Slack or self-hosted tools, and pressed for cross‑platform support: Zoom, Google Meet, Slack. That lit up a debate over convenience vs. control.
Then Calli0pe rolled in with the hacker playbook: skip another SaaS and wire up open-source Craig with Whisper (speech-to-text) to keep recordings in your own hands. Their flex: bulk transcription is ultra cheap compared to real-time. Cue the penny-pincher applause and “DIY over vendor lock‑in” chants.
And esafak delivered the meme of the day: “Of all the places to run a team...” The thread turned into jokes about Harmony as a “Discord court stenographer,” summarizing chaos while everyone argues about pizza toppings. Fans love the speed and simplicity; skeptics worry about data security and being stuck on Discord. The verdict: hype with a hefty privacy check
Key Points
- •Harmony is an AI notetaker built for Discord.
- •It can record Discord voice calls.
- •The tool transcribes recorded Discord calls into text.
- •Harmony generates summaries of Discord call content.
- •The product aims to streamline capturing and reviewing discussions on Discord.