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Granola
Company blog · granola.ai/blogproductivityai
Granola is the company blog at granola.ai, writing about productivity and ai. Since 2024, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Don't animate height”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link granola.ai mainly for its blog post "dont-animate-height", cited as evidence that small CSS animations can hurt rendering performance. Others mention the site as the Granola meeting-notes product.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings. Notes, actions and memory. Without a meeting bot.
Most-linked posts?
- Don't animate height9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2025-01-30
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-24
- Dangerously-skip-permissions is the only safe mode2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-26
What Hacker News says?
Two off the top of my head: - https://www.clay.com/ - https://www.granola.ai/ There are a lot of tools in the sales space which fit your criteria.
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on “AI Horseless Carriages”Submitted Don't animate height as a story · 460 points
HN discussionBut even a small bit of css can slow down page rendering. https://www.granola.ai/blog/dont-animate-height
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on “The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)”Submitted Don't Animate Height as a story · 6 points
HN discussionExample: "Our app was mysteriously using 60% CPU and 25% GPU. It turned out this was due to a tiny CSS animation [of an equaliser icon]" https://www.granola.ai/blog/dont-animate-height
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on “Why fastDOOM is fast”Submitted Don't Animate Height as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGranola | London, UK | On-site | https://granola.ai Granola is like Apple notes, but it also transcribes your meeting to enhance your notes. We recently raised $20M and we're growing quickly. Stack: TypeScript, React, Electron, AWS, macOS, various LLM tech. We're eight friendly people working in a Shoreditch office. We're product-focussed generalists. See our approach to early-stage product development: https://www.…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)”Submitted Dangerously-skip-permissions is the only safe mode as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGranola | London, UK | Full-time | On-site | https://granola.ai People in back-to-back meetings use Granola to write summaries using their transcripts and raw notes. We're backed by top investors (Lightspeed, AI Grant) and growing quickly. Stack: TypeScript, React, Electron, Node.js, AWS, native macOS APIs, various LLM tech. Seven friendly people working in a Shoreditch office. We're product-focussed generalists. Se…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)”Submitted How I fixed an expensive CSS animation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGranola | London, UK | On-site | https://granola.ai Granola is an AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. Our macOS app takes your meeting notes and combines them with a transcript to get an awesome meeting summary. And increasingly, Granola is a new kind of knowledge-base. We're 15 people working in lovely Shoreditch office. See our approach to early-stage product development: https://www.granola.ai/blog/ho…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)”Submitted Don't Animate Height as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGranola | London, UK | On-site | https://granola.ai Granola is an AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. Our macOS app takes your meeting notes and combines them with a transcript to get an awesome meeting summary. And increasingly, Granola is a new kind of knowledge-base. We're 15 people working in lovely Shoreditch office. See our approach to early-stage product development: https://www.granola.ai/blog/ho…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)”Submitted Don't Animate Height as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> I have no idea why, but tree models scare the shit out of college educated developers. Very few people are "scared" of tree models. The problem of working with the DOM is that it's: - 90s JAVA-like verbose unwieldy API that requires tons of boilerplate to do the simplest things - Extremely anemic API that is neither low-level enough to let you do your own stuff easily, nor high-level enough to just create what you…
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on “Rethinking DOM from first principles”Submitted Granola for Apple Watch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGranola in title is reference to https://www.granola.ai/
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on “Open-source granola (meetings summary)”Submitted Dangerously-skip-permissions is the only safe mode as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThat looks cool. A wee suggestion, next time explain what granola is. We don't all necessarily live in your world. I was able to google it of course, https://www.granola.ai/ .
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on “How I turned Granola action items into to-do list”Submitted So, you think it's easy to change an app icon? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's free for a limited number of notes. I guess you could copypaste the note summaries out to Obsidian or something, but at that point you're better off using MacParakeet, OpenWhispr, etc. https://www.granola.ai/pricing
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on “Granola for Apple Watch”Submitted Start with a dot-plot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Animate CSS Height as a story · 1 points
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