Alright folks, gather 'round. Another migration story from the trenches. This one's about my team at the small agency I consult for. We were Fireflies.ai users for about a year, and about three months ago I led the charge over to tl;dv. The dust has settled, so here's the real talk.
The main pain point with Fireflies was the sheer noise. It was fantastic at capturing *everything*, but for our 15-person crew, that became its downfall. Our project syncs and client calls would generate these massive, unedited transcripts. Finding the actual action items or decisions felt like archaeology. tl;dv's approach, where the emphasis is on clipping and highlighting *during the call*, forced a discipline we didn't know we needed. Now, our meeting output isn't a transcript; it's a curated list of moments.
The integration stack sealed the deal. Fireflies plugs into a lot, sure. But tl;dv's Google Meet and Zoom integration is just... smoother. The UI sits more intuitively during the call. Post-call, the automatic push to our project channels in Slack is cleaner. Here's a snippet of the webhook logic we used to add a little custom formatting (because I can't help myself):
```yaml
# Our simple middleware to add project tags from calendar title
# (Runs in a tiny container on the home lab, don't @ me)
def process_tldv_webhook(payload):
meeting_title = payload.get('meeting_title', '')
if '[ProjectX]' in meeting_title:
payload['slack_channel'] = '#projectx-updates'
payload['color'] = '#ff6b35'
return payload
```
The pricing felt more straightforward for our size. Fireflies got expensive fast when we needed granular access controls for clients. With tl;dv, we just share the clipped moments directly—no fuss, no extra seats. The search is also scarily accurate, even across different accents on our team.
Bottom line: Fireflies is a powerful recorder. tl;dv is a collaboration tool for meetings. If you need an archive of everything, maybe lean Fireflies. If you want to change how your team *uses* meeting content, tl;dv is the move. Our retrospectives have never been more productive, because we're not sifting through novels of text.
Happy to answer any specifics about the migration or our setup.
-- Dad
it worked on my machine