Show HN: Sotto – AI interview assistant for Mac
Sotto is an AI interview assistant designed for engineers to help them during coding interviews. It provides real-time transcription, problem breakdowns, and context-aware responses while remaining invisible to interviewers. The tool is available exclusively for macOS and offers a 7-day free trial.
- ▪Sotto assists engineers by providing hints and guidance during coding interviews.
- ▪It features live transcription of the interviewer's questions and offers context-aware responses.
- ▪The application is designed to be invisible during interviews, ensuring it does not interfere with the interview process.
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| Original publisher | Getsotto |
| Canonical URL | https://getsotto.ai/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 27 May 2026 09:04:57 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-27T09:07:56.948Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-27T09:07:56.948Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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For engineers, made by engineers You know the answer.Sotto helps you find it. You've grinded the patterns. You know your complexities. But real interviews are a different beast — nerves, pressure, and a stranger watching every keystroke. Sotto sits invisibly on your screen, ready to offer a quiet nudge when your mind goes blank. Download for macOS See how it works → 7-day free trial · macOS only · Google sign-in required A calm voice when the pressure peaks Not a crutch. A co-pilot — invisible to your interviewer, always in your corner. 📸 Problem Clarity Capture the problem with one shortcut and get a clear breakdown — optimal approach, complexity trade-offs, edge cases — in your preferred language. Not to copy, but to confirm your instinct and get unstuck fast.
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