[melvinroest]

A voice memo app, quite like the actual voice memo app from Apple. The thing is: now I can put my voice memo's on iCloud put Claude Code on it and make my transcripts into structured notes that my app then also displays.

So basically a way to just go on an hour long walk with myself, spit everything from the top of my dome stream of consciousness style, and then have Claude structure whatever I said.

It's nice to have something that structures my thoughts by just thinking out loud.

I vibecoded it (it's approaching 20K lines including tests). It works quite well but there are some bugs, so will have to do some actual engineering. But the UX is working quite well.

[prometheus76]

Relatedly, I have recently started walking and talking, and I just use lightweight gamer headphones that have a mic. I just record it with a generic voice recorder app, then I use a local instantiation of whisper to transcribe it when I get home. I throw the transcript and the recording into a database and then I can search the whole thing, or have AI look for interesting patterns in my thoughts.

[cui]

This is really useful. Thanks for sharing.

[derwiki]

I love it!

But I have to ask: why not just advanced voice mode in ChatGPT or Claude?

[jascination]

FWIW - In the Claude app (on android) when in transcript mode, it has a hard limit of 10 minutes. If you transcribe longer than that, it crashes and you lose everything you've said.

To make matters worse, they've recently gotten rid of the timer, so you have NFI how long you've been speaking for.

I use it for therapy-based stream-of-consciousnesses + venting and then have my project set up to understand the schema therapy work I've done with my psychologist and give me insights / draw threads between things from my past and now, and losing 10 whole minutes of talking and processing is SO FRUSTRATING!

[hsuduebc2]

It seems clunky for me. The dictating it self had weird bugs, like sometimes it decided to not work at all and the conversation mode is not very usefull for OP case if I am undestanding it correctly.

[melvinroest]

I talk/walk for hours and want all audio files and transcripts in one place, full control.

[camillomiller]

Basically the entire business model of Plaud

[melvinroest]

I am curious to check them out! I hadn’t heard of them. Marketing stuff takes time as I have noticed with aliceindataland.com [1]. Maybe I should do a show HN. I will think about it.

To be fair, vibecoding this memo app in Swift didn’t take too long. There were some tricks to it, using xcodegen helped a lot so that I don’t need to use the Xcode project.

It’s fun to see Swift code. I used to do some Objective-C back in the day.

[1] another thing I made. It’s a sequel to the Alice in Wonderland stories. It’s also a SQL course. I vibe engineered it, meaning I looked at the code and used AI-assisted development.

Except for the story though that’s almost all fully me. LLMs aren’t great storytellers. The same is true for the lesson scaffolding, that’s almost only me.