One person, building one small app. This page is the whole feed — the log (dated, misses included), the bench (what’s being tested), and how it’s built. No account to follow. Every number behind the app, with methods, lives at the numbers →
Auto-update is wired in (check for updates, get the new build in place). Offline license keys are built — the app will never phone home to check one. Signing and notarization are ready on our side; Apple’s notary service has been down, so the first public build waits out their outage, not ours.
Swapped the speech model for one that runs on Apple’s neural engine. On my own voice — the only voice I can honestly measure — the word-error rate fell from 16.3% to 4.5%, and a sentence lands in about a tenth of a second. The landing page still won’t print an accuracy claim for your voice; your first sentence is the benchmark.
A strict code review caught the debug log keeping short snippets of transcriptions on disk — private to your Mac, but against our own rule. Content logging is gone entirely, secure fields (passwords) are never read, and privacy is now enforced by tests, not by a paragraph on a website. This is why the beta is fifty people and not five hundred.
The name locked, the teaser went up, and the first people asked in — before there was anything to download. The fifty-spot private beta starts from that list.
What’s being built and tested behind switches, shipped when ready. No dates — one person, honest pace.
Signed, notarized, downloadable — it goes out the moment Apple’s service recovers.
“Remind me to call Sam at six” becomes a reminder, not a sentence — parsed on-device, off by default. Capture is reliable; informal times (“end of day”) still trip it.
Reading the names already on your screen so hard words come out spelled right. Parked after testing showed the new engine barely needs it — it returns only if that changes.
These aren’t missing. They’re refused.
For a privacy app, “what’s it built on” isn’t trivia — it’s the proof. Small, native, and nothing in the app talks to the internet.
A real Mac app measured in megabytes — no Electron, no web view pretending to be software. It sits in your menu bar and waits for one key.
Transcription runs on the chip inside your Mac (Parakeet, via CoreML). One ~460 MB download at setup — after that, it never needs the internet again.
The open-source updater trusted Mac apps have shipped with for years. Signed updates, no account.
The key proves itself with math (Ed25519 signatures), entirely offline — the app never phones home to check it.
A single Cloudflare Worker and a tiny database that holds the signup list. The app never talks to it — the site and the app are strangers.
No trackers, no crash uploads, no third-party SDKs. What isn’t collected can’t leak.
That’s everything so far. Want the next entry to include you? Be one of the fifty →
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