Show HN: AlgoMommy – Organize video clips by talking while recording (macOS)

1 points by diarmuid_glynn a month ago · 1 comment · 3 min read

If you record videos regularly and end up with a messy clips folder, I built a macOS app to help.

AlgoMommy organizes raw video files into an existing folder hierarchy based on short spoken instructions you say inside the recording (e.g. “Hey Cleo, this is wedding B-roll - tag it green” or “Hey Cleo, this is a New York sunrise”). After recording, drop the clips into AlgoMommy; it listens for the instructions you said during recording and copies the files to the appropriate sub-folder.

Download (DMG):

- https://download.algomommy.com/app/macos/public/AlgoMommy-1....

- 492 MB - most of this is WhisperKit, signed & notarized

- sha256: de354d073467aece719433f170f1886c5ab781835e4caccc4054827ee3320ee5

Demo video (48s):

- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucj-D9yOKBc

- Raw MP4: https://download.algomommy.com/public/AlgoMommy.mp4

Try it now:

1) Install the DMG and log in with this shared demo account:

  user: hn@algomommy.com
  pass: hnpass2026

3) Drag & drop a few videos and click "Organize videos"

Auth is required because the service uses paid LLM calls.

What leaves your machine / privacy:

- No raw video or audio is uploaded.

- Audio is extracted + transcribed locally.

- The only data sent is: (1) ~30s text transcription snippets for segments that appear to address “Cleo”, and (2) the list of relative destination folder paths under the root you selected (so the model can choose a folder).

- Those snippets are used to decide destination folder + tags/metadata.

Why “Cleo” (and why natural language):

- WhisperKit is accurate but slow, Apple's SpeechAnalyzer is fast but less accurate. AlgoMommy uses SpeechAnalyzer to quickly find "Cleo"-addressed segments, then re-transcribes just those ~30s chunks with WhisperKit for accuracy.

Safety:

- AlgoMommy only "copies" videos, it never "moves" / "overwrites" videos.

Inspiration:

- Initially this was a Python script for my partner, to solve this very issue. I subsequently decided to "productize" the solution as a macOS app.

I’m looking for feedback on:

1) Does this solve a significant problem for you?

2) Is the workflow clear and robust in real-world usage?

3) Today you must pre-create the folder hierarchy: is that acceptable, or should the app be able to create target folders in some cases? If folder creation is valuable, what rules would make it safe/predictable?

4) Any voice commands you’d want beyond “organize/tag this clip” (e.g. “start a new video file here”)?

Happy to answer questions and go deep on implementation details if anyone’s interested.