GhostMinutes: AI meeting notes that reached $1,500 MRR

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Description

GhostMinutes turns meetings, sales calls and lectures into text. Record on your iPhone or drop an audio or video file in the browser. You get a transcript with speaker names and timestamps, a short summary and a chat for questions about the meeting.

The founder, a serial startup builder, came to us with an idea and nothing built yet. We worked as a fractional tech co-founder and made all of it: the name, the brand, the design, the apps and the AI.

Mobile
iOS app
Web
Web app on the shared backend
AI
Custom speech models tuned in-house, non-standard LLM setup
Infrastructure
Autoscaling GPU workers, H200 class and up
Launch
Rocketech Apple developer and Stripe accounts
Our role and company services
Fractional Tech Co-founder, Naming & Branding, UI/UX Design, iOS & Web Development, Backend, ML Engineering

The challenge

The founder's plan was to put a paid product in front of users quickly and then find out which audience and price work. So the name, the brand and a live app all had to be ready within a few weeks. Transcription also had to stay cheap. Speech models need expensive GPUs, and a GPU that sits idle still costs money.

Project management

A small team worked only on GhostMinutes from February to April 2026. We moved in short steps, and each one ended with something live that people could use.

How the launch went:

  1. 2 weeks: from zero to the first iOS release on the App Store.
  2. 1 week: a web app on the same backend, to see how the product does in the browser.
  3. A couple of weeks: tests with the founder's marketing team on extra features and on how to charge.

To save time, the product launched on our own Apple developer account and our Stripe account. The founder didn't have to wait for new accounts to be set up.

The Rocketech team:

  • Product Lead (fractional tech co-founder)
  • UI/UX and Brand Designer
  • iOS Developer
  • Full-Stack Developer
  • ML Engineer

How the AI stays fast and cheap

Transcription runs on custom speech models that our ML experts tuned further for this product. The model tells speakers apart, adds timestamps and detects the language on its own.

The models run on H200-class GPUs and up. Those cost a lot per hour, so a GPU server starts only when a file comes in and shuts down when the job is done. The founder pays for GPU time only while audio is being processed.

Summaries, follow-ups and the chat run on a non-standard LLM setup we tuned for speed and price. Answers come back fast, and each one costs little.

Key features

GhostMinutes works on iPhone and in the browser with one account. Minutes and transcripts sync between the two.

Capture

  • Record: one tap on iPhone, and recording keeps going with the screen locked.
  • Upload: drop any audio or video file up to 1 GB in the browser. The first try needs no signup.
  • Offline on iPhone: transcribe without internet. The audio stays on the phone.

Privacy

  • Auto-delete: on the web, audio is wiped right after transcription.
  • Your delete button: transcripts are encrypted, and you can remove them any time.

Text and AI

  • Transcript: speaker labels and timestamps, in 95+ languages.
  • Summary: key points and next steps in seconds.
  • Chat: ask the AI for a follow-up email, a list of objections or anything else about the meeting.
  • Custom prompts: save your own requests as quick prompts and reuse them.
  • Export: SRT, VTT, PDF, DOCX or TXT.

Growth and pricing tests

After launch we tested more ideas with the founder's marketing team. Some added features, others tried different ways to charge. The live product now includes:
  • Landing pages per audience: sales teams, consultants and people who transcribe video.
  • A plan quiz: a few questions about how you record, then a suggested plan.
  • 4 plans: Free, Lite, Pro and Business, paid monthly or yearly.
  • Minute packs: from 50 to 10,000 minutes, paid once, and they never expire.

Real results from real customers

I was impressed by ROCKETECH's ease of communication and turnaround time. I was assigned a dedicated team that worked only on my project, so it was easy to keep track of deliverables and understand the pace of the project.

Read the full review on Clutch

Serial startup founder
GhostMinutes, review on Clutch

Numbers

$1,500
monthly recurring revenue (MRR)
2
weeks to the first iOS release
1
week to launch the web app on the same backend

Results

GhostMinutes reached $1,500 in monthly recurring revenue (MRR).
The iOS app reached the App Store 2 weeks after we started. The web app followed a week later.
One team made all of it from scratch: the name, brand, illustrations, app and landing design, backend and AI.
GPU servers switch on for each file and off after it, which keeps the cost of every transcribed minute down.
After launch we tested features and pricing with the founder's marketing team.
The launch ran on our Apple developer and Stripe accounts, so the founder didn't wait for their own.

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