{"slug": "sesame", "name": "Sesame", "category": "ai", "category_name": "AI tools and apps", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 5, "warners": 0, "score": 3.092, "rising": 0.02, "first": "2025-11-28", "latest": "2026-08-29", "why": "I liked Maya from Sesame for empathic conversations", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 1, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I liked Maya from Sesame for empathic conversations", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "sesame.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.sesame.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Sesame"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 791751552, "item_id": 49484472, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484472", "by": "arlattimore", "date": "2026-08-28", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like that this could be self hosted.", "excerpt": "I like that this could be self hosted. I don't have anything against the big password managers (I use and pay for one), but they are a massive target for hackers for obvious reasons. If everyone could self host their own vault on a personal domain, the reward for hackers is much more difficult to get access to.", "context": "pays for a mainstream password manager", "use_case": "self-hosted password vault", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager"}, {"id": 756201408, "item_id": 47262588, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262588", "by": "d4rkp4ttern", "date": "2026-03-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Sesame was the best full-duplex voice demo I ever came across", "excerpt": "Sesame was the best full-duplex voice demo I ever came across, wonder what is up with them now https://app.sesame.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift"}, {"id": 746465376, "item_id": 46654086, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654086", "by": "arendtio", "date": "2026-01-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I liked Maya from Sesame for empathic conversations", "excerpt": "Personally, I liked Maya from Sesame for empathic conversations: https://app.sesame.com However, I am not sure this is actually a solution to the (root) problem.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI voice companion chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"}, {"id": 737265040, "item_id": 46079065, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46079065", "by": "echelon", "date": "2025-11-28", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Sesame is an impressive real time conversational audio-to-audio model", "excerpt": "Sesame is an impressive real time conversational audio-to-audio model you can talk to on their website [1]. But it's closed source. They released some components, but nothing you could use to duplicate their work. Sesame is what this team (and lots of teams) want to build. I know another team trying to build a real time local NSFW girlfriend you can talk to. They're convinced they can reach $100M ARR quickly if they ", "context": "", "use_case": "conversational voice AI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Open (Apache 2.0) TTS model for streaming conversational audio in realtime"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "arlattimore", "context": "pays for a mainstream password manager", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484472", "date": "2026-08-28"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["self-hosted password vault", "ai voice companion chat", "conversational voice ai"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483038", "title": "Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47258801", "title": "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635345", "title": "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380399", "title": "Asterisk AI Voice Agent", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46033386", "title": "Open (Apache 2.0) TTS model for streaming conversational audio in realtime", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1, "compare": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 791784560, "item_id": 49486535, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486535", "by": "2legit2quit", "date": "2026-08-29", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Does it provide any features that set it apart?", "excerpt": "This sounds an awful lot like PasswordSafe[0] in a different dress. Does it provide any features that set it apart? 0 - https://www.pwsafe.org/relatedprojects.shtml", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager"}, {"id": 791751552, "item_id": 49484472, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484472", "by": "arlattimore", "date": "2026-08-28", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like that this could be self hosted.", "excerpt": "I like that this could be self hosted. I don't have anything against the big password managers (I use and pay for one), but they are a massive target for hackers for obvious reasons. If everyone could self host their own vault on a personal domain, the reward for hackers is much more difficult to get access to.", "context": "pays for a mainstream password manager", "use_case": "self-hosted password vault", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager"}, {"id": 756201408, "item_id": 47262588, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262588", "by": "d4rkp4ttern", "date": "2026-03-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Sesame was the best full-duplex voice demo I ever came across", "excerpt": "Sesame was the best full-duplex voice demo I ever came across, wonder what is up with them now https://app.sesame.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift"}, {"id": 746465376, "item_id": 46654086, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654086", "by": "arendtio", "date": "2026-01-16", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I liked Maya from Sesame for empathic conversations", "excerpt": "Personally, I liked Maya from Sesame for empathic conversations: https://app.sesame.com However, I am not sure this is actually a solution to the (root) problem.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI voice companion chat", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"}, {"id": 742120480, "item_id": 46382530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382530", "by": "echelon", "date": "2025-12-24", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Sesame was the fastest model for a bit.", "excerpt": "Sesame was the fastest model for a bit. Not sure what that team is doing anymore, they kind of went radio silent. https://app.sesame.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Asterisk AI Voice Agent"}, {"id": 737265040, "item_id": 46079065, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46079065", "by": "echelon", "date": "2025-11-28", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Sesame is an impressive real time conversational audio-to-audio model", "excerpt": "Sesame is an impressive real time conversational audio-to-audio model you can talk to on their website [1]. But it's closed source. They released some components, but nothing you could use to duplicate their work. Sesame is what this team (and lots of teams) want to build. I know another team trying to build a real time local NSFW girlfriend you can talk to. They're convinced they can reach $100M ARR quickly if they ", "context": "", "use_case": "conversational voice AI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Open (Apache 2.0) TTS model for streaming conversational audio in realtime"}]}