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I’m not a professional developer. Six months ago I wanted a dictation tool that didn’t ship my audio and meeting notes to someone’s cloud, and I couldn’t find one I trusted. So I built it — Claude wrote nearly all of the code, I did the product calls, testing, and a lot of “no, not like that.” A9 Voice (Windows, free): hold a key and talk, and it types into whatever app you’re in. Sit in a meeting and it records, figures out who said what, and writes the notes. Everything lives in plain files on your PC — no account, no login, nothing uploaded unless you turn on a cloud model yourself. Notes are folders of plain Markdown (export to PDF or Word). Speaker labels come from voiceprints stored locally that never leave your PC, and your mic and the computer audio are recorded as separate channels, so you vs. everyone else is split from the start. If you switch on a cloud speech service, the audio goes to that provider. It’s off by default. Website: a9voice.com Github: https://github.com/atlas9-ai/a9voice-releases How it was actually built, since that’s the point of this sub: Rust + Tauri + Svelte. I’d never written a line of Rust. Still haven’t, really. Every feature starts as a one-page spec I write in plain English. An agent builds it on its own branch, runs the tests, screenshots the UI, opens the PR. I review the result, not the code. Several agents work in parallel on separate branches; the rule is “ship on green” — tests, lint, a UI sweep, and a copy check all have to pass or it doesn’t merge. The expensive lessons: agents will fill the disk and hang if you don’t give them hygiene rules; “it compiles” and “it works on a real meeting” are very different; and the install experience (unsigned installer, Windows warnings) matters more than any feature. Honest caveats: it’s a 0.6 preview. The installer isn’t code-signed yet, so Windows will show its new-publisher note the first time — the download page explains what you’ll see. Windows only. The dictation part is free forever; the meeting-notes side will become a one-time purchase later, with 30 days free first. Happy to answer anything about the workflow — what worked, what blew up, how the specs are written.   submitted by   /u/Jwishon [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/11 23:29:07