Nick Payne
@makeusabrew
🚧 Independently building SaaS & apps: stronglytyped.uk/work 🟣 New: talat.app 📥 Also: blueskyinbox.com 🙃 Fun: bskyfeels.com 🦀 Aspiring Rustacean 🚴♂️ Cyclist 🤓 Nerd 👶 Dad
Notifications CTAs are better in the next release of talat. Today, the "Dismiss" button carries equal weight with the secondary CTA ("Stop recording" in the second shot). The danger CTA state ("Delete recording") is completely new - a glaring gap in today's notifications 🫣
If you use talat - how would you vote? In fact, why not go one better and answer directly on discord? discord.gg/EZfV9yHzXR
We have thousands of unit and in-memory database tests on talat, but the stability of our end-to-end suite - which drives the real desktop application we ship to users - has suffered recently. Not anymore. Pleased to get this one green again 🟢
Another talat dictation feature coming soon (built purely to scratch my own itch): refocus the *last* app you dictated into. Great when you're having e.g. an ongoing conversation with Claude and don't want to have to manually refocus your terminal to resume it
Looking forward to shipping this one. I can't count the number of times I've absent-mindedly hit escape during a long, rambling dictation and accidentally cancelled it. The next version of talat gives you two seconds grace to undo a cancellation and pick up dictating where you left off.
Yesterday: one of our worst days ever 🔻😭 Today: our best day ever 🔺🥳 Indie life in a nutshell
I selfishly snuck in a new @talat.app feature purely for ME. My home office is upstairs, my wife's is downstairs, and if we're both on a call with our doors open (summer - it's hot), speech from her room could occasionally leak into my transcripts. Well, not anymore 😎
I'm aware that the @talat.app pricing page is... awful. Each pricing tier is basically just a different way of paying for the same thing: there is no feature gating on different plans, so I can't do a classic plan vs. feature comparison table. Roasts in the thread, please 👇
We built a tool for @talat.app where AI agents can upload screenshots with context (branch, commit, description, etc), and humans and AI can search the 'gallery' I love it. It's a durable, visual evolution of the product, and lets agents attach and 'see' screenshots on GitHub PRs
Seriously - when did this become okay? When did we get this lazy? Over 600MB just for the download 1.4 gigabytes when installed wtf
...unless you go on to win the dispute. This was my first ever chargeback in *years* of online biz, and I knew it was baseless. On principle, and mainly to try and learn from the experience, I gathered my evidence, and contested it, not expecting much. Today, we won that dispute. (2/...)
New month, new me. I promise all diffs will be like this for the entirety of July. Honest. 🫡
June talat highlights: - Dictation mode - File import mode - Better multilingual support, especially for non-latin and right-to-left languages - Improved capitalisation and punctuation during real-time transcription - A more capable MCP connector that writes to talat as well as reading from it
Woohoo! No more bumping into ultra-conservative Claude design limits. Might not be celebrating if/when Claude Design chews through my quota faster than usual, but for now, awesome.
Oops. We don't talk about what happened there. Everything went perfectly smoothly.
It's no bun rewrite, but we're exploring a really exciting spike which would open up a load of new possibilities on @talat.app
Product Of The Day! 🥇 @talat.app scoops first place on Fazier - thank you all for the support 🙇🏻♂️
We've listed @talat.app on fazier this morning - it's nosed ahead into an early lead but we could really use your support by way of an upvote as the day rolls on - registration only takes a second and it would help us out a lot 🙏 fazier.com/launches/talat
We're more conservative with our release schedule on @talat.app than I'd like to be. I'd love to be releasing every day. But the risk of bricking a desktop app install is real. I received this error when trying to auto-update my favourite push-to-dictate app, FluidVoice, just now. Desktop is HARD.
Delighted to get this one out in the wild! The diff from 0.5.1 to 0.60 is ridiculous - it's way too big, making the release a little more scary than it needed to be, but I'm relieved we got there and excited to get it into the hands of our early adopters. Check it out at talat.app