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claude code tip: have it make a sound when it needs your input use the hooks in ~/.claude/settings.json to trigger a sound. terminal-notifier works well for this. just give your terminal notification permission and you're good to go

I've built 5 apps in 2 years. - ContactHive: shipped to the App Store, never found its audience. - LifeTrophy: stayed a prototype forever. - QuickPoll: free tool, still running, but no business. - XLens: had to shelve it to stay compliant with platform rules. And now Dictato. I'm not gonna pretend I cracked the code... some of these hurt. But each one taught me something. And Dictato is the first one where I feel like the product, the problem, and the timing actually align. And Dictato solves something I deal with every day: your brain thinks at 150 words per minute, your fingers type at 40. (I tried to get faster... never got past 65. ofc. 🤦) That gap is where ideas die. In emails that take too long, in notes you never finish, in thoughts your hands can't keep up with. It's live. 7-day free trial, no credit card.

claude code tip: have it make a sound when it needs your input use the hooks in ~/.claude/settings.json to trigger a sound. terminal-notifier works well for this. just give your terminal notification permission and you're good to go

for anything non-trivial you want AI to implement, start with a design doc. this protects the agent's memory from amnesia: if context becomes compacted mid-implementation due to token limits, it will be able to refer to the file for continuity and not forget what's already done