glasspane

role

Lead Product Manager

timeline

Aug - Sep 2026

context

Personal project

key skills

  • Requirements Scoping
  • AI Product Design
  • Cost Tradeoff Analysis
  • Scope Prioritization

overview

glasspane is a translucent desktop overlay for taking notes during meetings, with a one-click AI recap that turns raw notes into clear decisions and action items. Over five weeks, I took it from end to end: defining my own needs as the first user, scoping the requirements, building the app in Tauri (Rust/Preact), and choosing the model behind it.

problem

In back-to-back meetings, I type notes quickly in shorthand that is hard to understand later. Cleaning them up took around 20 minutes per meeting, so many notes sat unprocessed in my notes app until they were forgotten. Typing in a separate app also pulled my attention away from the people on the call, and since nothing showed which notes I had already filed, the backlog stayed invisible.

target users

I started with my own workflow as a student and intern moving between classes, internship syncs, and organization meetings, then widened the scope to anyone who takes live notes on video calls.

pain points

Mapping my own note-taking process surfaced 3 points of friction. Switching to a separate notes app broke my focus on the call, my rushed shorthand needed a second pass before it made sense, and nothing showed which notes had been saved somewhere permanent, so important details slipped through. These became the MVP's three must-have requirements: keep users visually present on the call, turn shorthand into clear notes in one step, and show which notes still need to be saved.

solution

I turned each pain point into a requirement and shipped 3 core features. I also descoped automatic Google Docs filing, since two days of OAuth work would only save a 15-second copy and paste:

Stay present on the call

A frameless overlay floats above the video call, and its background can turn fully transparent while the notes stay readable, so clicks pass through to the call while I listen.

Organize notes in one click

Claude turns raw notes into a structured recap with a summary, decisions, action items, and open questions that I can edit right in the overlay.

Make the backlog visible

Each note is marked as "to file" or "in Docs," and an unfiled count in the title bar shows what still needs to be saved.

Raw meeting notes typed in shorthand in Apple Notes
Before: raw notes typed live during a meeting, with data, decisions, and to-dos mixed together in shorthand.
The same notes organized by glasspane into a summary and labeled sections
After: one click turns the same notes into a summary and labeled sections, and flags 6 items that still need to be filed.

impact

Matching each decision to the real size of the problem kept the product fast to use and cheap to run:

Review cut to <1 minute

Post-meeting review dropped from 20 minutes to less than 1, since notes now come out organized and ready to be used later for reflection.

5x lower inference cost

Scoping the recap as a low-difficulty sorting task led me to choose Claude Haiku over frontier models, bringing the cost to about half a cent per meeting.

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