Purku
Automated audio transcription, built before the AI boom
2019–2020Purku was an automated audio transcription service, and my first foray into AI integration well before the explosion of LLMs like OpenAI and Claude made it mainstream.
The platform was built on Laravel with a serverless processing pipeline using AWS Lambda, Transcribe, and S3. Users uploaded audio files, which were queued for processing, transcribed automatically, and delivered back as formatted text. The whole pipeline handled file uploads, job queuing, progress tracking, and transcript delivery.
While the product was eventually shut down, it was a formative project that shaped how I think about building AI-powered features into applications, experience I now apply daily with tools like Paipers.
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