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Today I'm launching @TryYaps on Android - a voice-first keyboard I've been rebuilding from the ground up! Ships with everything you'd expect from a modern keyboard - swipe typing, smart suggestions, autocorrect, emoji, GIFs, multi-language, light/dark themes, the whole familiar toolkit. If you're coming from Gboard, nothing to relearn. But the reason it exists is one shortcut away. Dictation that's genuinely 4× faster than typing. It also comes with some robust note taking features. A reading mode that narrates any text aloud. It also cleans up rambling drafts into something send-ready. Every one of those running on-device - no cloud, no listening, no account needed to get started. I kept wondering why no one had just built voice INTO the keyboard itself. The answer is simple, it's tough to do well 😅. Either way I built it, and will keep improving it. Feels a bit unreal to be shipping a full-stack keyboard as one person but it was fun and a necessary first step for a much broader suite of tools. If you've ever want to just yap the thing instead of typing it out - link in the comments.

Imagine getting caught in 4k by the app you cloned

@catalinmpit 👋🏾

I'll create a list of EU people that work in tech. If you want to be added, reply.

@jediahkatz Tbh he left openai in 2024 but banger nevertheless. 😅

i would never hire anyone with a 4 year resume gap

@theo I really love codex, but it's still got bugs. 😅

Honestly I'm still really impressed with the Codex app. It works reliably. It adds useful features consistently. It has taste. The mobile integration is awesome. The git integration is solid. If you haven't used it yet, I highly recommend it.

@madsokamii @TryYaps Thanks champ!

@RichDoesTech @TryYaps This is so awesome 🥹

I got my first paid subscriber on @TryYaps Android! 🎉🎉🎉 A lot of work for a single sale but we'll take it! Some of the biggest learnings so far: - Reddit is a goldmine - it's gone from intimidating to my favourite platform haha! - Speak to users, build what they want, 100 heads are better than 1. - Things move slower than you plan. - Well distributed > Great product - Everyone will say its too expensive, nobody will say it's too cheap - X is noisy as hell, but the real signal peddlers are usually small - mid, giving the best gems away as they try to grow their distribution engine. - If you build in public / open source, it's never been easier to get your idea ripped, so speed and distribution matter. - Large total addressable markets mean that you can win big solo even if there's big competition. - There are still complex projects out there (arbitrage for engineers and deep thinkers), but nothing complex for AI eventually. - All this work for 0->$20 MRR was long. $20->$100 will be much easier. - Think big. If I can sell to 1, I can sell to 5. If I can sell to 5 I can sell to 100. If I can sell to 100 I can sell to 2000. etc.

Babe wake up, there's been a plot twist 😅

@karpathy Ok, this is a real crazy turn of events. Anthropic just reclaimed alot of mindshare with this one! Congrats Andrej & Anthropic

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

@dan_spitzwieser @TryYaps Thanks sir! Baby steps :)

@RichDoesTech @TryYaps Congrats bro 🔥

If you're interested in giving it a spin, download it here: yaps.ai/android

@ElitzaVasileva @cursor_ai “Like many other traitors”, is one of the funniest lines I've read on this former bird app 🤣

Dear @cursor_ai, I’ve been actively using Cursor for the past 2 years and never switched to Claude Code like many other traitors 😤 Recently I’ve been shipping like crazy, so I upgraded to the Ultra plan… and somehow still managed to almost burn through it in less than 10 days. As a loyal customer, I would highly appreciate some extra credits so I can continue shipping at crazy speeds 🚀 Thank you very much in advance! Your loyal customer, Elitza

@thsottiaux Yeah, I had this issue yesterday. Once you get it sorted, you know what to do.

Seeing issues where usage limits are out of sync for some Codex users. Apologies and team is investigating.

@thsottiaux @kr0der better design 😅

@kr0der What would you like to see in a > $1000 plan

who’s gonna pull the trigger on $500/$1000/$2000 AI subscription plans first? everyone who needs those plans is just buying multiple $200 plans anyway 👀

@adel_ljaljic Incredible tbh

@RichDoesTech appstore connect shows 6.61%

Woke up to 4K iOS downloads today 📈

I was in the process of a fun redesign, and I love codex but we know I can't trust codex with that 😅

Claude down,... But we're just not reporting it anymore accurately I don't think 😭

@quantumvoidlabs It's not great but I don't mind downtime. I do mind, not being able to accurately track it though 😭

@RichDoesTech It's almost definitely not accurate and I'm going to cook a real one asap. Something is def wrong there, 99% up time yet you're down intermittently every single day? Hmm

@robinebers Agreed, every month I more or less downgrade claude and codex and upgrade them back up to the full plans depending on my needs that month. Design, creativity, research, refactors/backend hardening, debugging, etc. They both usually go back to max plan at some point.

goodbye codex unsubscribed from the $200/mo plan for now → love the team → love the app → love the intelligence of the model but my business isn't just about backend code it's a lot of landing pages. a lot of emails. a lot of content, intros, scripts, tweets, and instagram carousels. none of which codex is good at

@wongmjane incredibly rough, sorry to hear

It sucked incredibly to be laid off after taking days off for an ideation of ending myself and then the media placed it next to someone in LA being fired for misusing dining credits, leading to more pile-ons all while I scrambled to get things sorted within a short time frame