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Guys it's official! I've bootstrapped @TryYaps to a clean $1k MRR, and in the last 14 days I've actually made about $2.5k if you account for annual purchases. Kinda surreal for my first proper solo gig that's making money outside of consulting/contracting. Next stop, $10k MRR!

LLMs may be widely distributed, but not all taste is equal 😅

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.