Different meetings, different keywords.
One watchword list does not survive contact with reality. Engineering wants metric names; sales wants account names; the all-hands wants 'layoff'. MeetPing profiles let you keep them all and switch with one click.
We tried for a few weeks to ship MeetPing without profiles. One global watchword list, alphabetised. Within the first internal test it was obvious that wouldn't hold: the engineer using it for standup had also added their AE keywords, and was getting pinged on customer names during code review. So profiles shipped.
A profile is a named bag of keywords. You pick which one is active from the menubar dropdown — or let MeetPing pick for you based on the calendar event currently in progress (planned for v0.2; today it's manual). Profiles persist between launches. Watchwords inside a profile are first-class: they get all the same matching machinery as the global list (word-boundary regex, Soundex, Levenshtein).
What a good profile looks like
Five to twelve keywords per profile is the sweet spot. Below five and you're missing things. Above twelve and you're getting pinged on every other sentence — at which point the popover stops being a signal and becomes a stream you tune out. If you need more, that's two profiles, not one.
Always include your own name (and its likely ASR mutations if it's an unusual one — though phonetic match handles most of them). Include your team's project names. Include the names of the people who report to you. Skip generic words like "report" or "deck"; they fire on every sentence.
Profiles compose with auto-arm cleanly: when a meeting ends, the listener disarms but the active profile stays selected for the next session. So the usual flow is: pick the right profile in the morning, forget about it.
Keyword watch
A list of names and topics, matched live against the Parakeet stream. Pings the moment one fires.
Past-30s replay
Every ping comes with 30 seconds of context before the keyword and 30 seconds after.
On-device privacy
Zero outbound calls. RAM-only audio. No transcript file. Pulled from a real audit.
One click, the right keywords.
Engineering, sales, all-hands, parental. As many profiles as you want. Active profile stays put between launches.