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steveharman commented on Why do voice transcription apps charge monthly when Whisper runs locally? lucidvoice.app/... · Posted by u/metalogical

metalogical · a month ago

Hey Steve! SuperWhisper free is solid - main reason to switch is avoiding subscriptions entirely. For $20 one-time you get AI formatting (removes filler words, cleans up corrections) that SuperWhisper charges $120/year for. I'm building features users ask (e.g. file transcription) for and all future updates are included. Runs light on base M1s. Not trying to maximize profit here - just testing if people actually want local-first tools vs subscriptions. If it's not worth it after a week, email support@lucidvoice.app for a refund :)

steveharman · a month ago

I'm pretty sold. downloaded it earlier, had an issue with Lucid not automatically appearing in the list of apps to permit accessibility permission, but after a coffee I remembered that apps can be manually added (so you can ignore my support email! :-) ). My minor niggle would be no trial option, that always puts me off slightly - although I appreciate your refund offer. Oh hell, I'll just buy it. It's worth it to reward the slick onboarding process! :-)

steveharman commented on Why do voice transcription apps charge monthly when Whisper runs locally? lucidvoice.app/... · Posted by u/metalogical

metalogical · a month ago

Whisper runs fine locally. So why are Willow ($144/year), Wisprflow ($120/year), and SuperWhisper ($120/year) all subscriptions?

I got frustrated paying monthly for something that could run on my Mac, so I built Lucid Voice:

- 100% offline (Nvidia Parakeet + Llama)

- $20 one-time (mainly to cover Apple's notarization costs)

- Runs on surprisingly low-end hardware (M1 base models work fine)

- No cloud, no data collection

Open to feedback on anything - pricing, the tech stack, or if this should just be free: https://lucidvoice.app

steveharman · a month ago

Pleaee talk me into buying your product! :-) I currently use the free version of Superwhisper on Mac.

steveharman commented on Claude outage status.claude.com/inciden... · Posted by u/stuartmemo

steveharman · 2 months ago

I wonder if it's coincidence: today Anthropic mailed out all previous customers of Claude offering a free monthly of 5x Claude Code if they sign up again.

Plenty on Reddit saying they did. And I did.

Could the outage be a the result of an "unexpected" surge in account activations / use?

Not much of a "welcome back" ;-)

steveharman commented on Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal github.com/charmbracelet/... · Posted by u/nateb2022

oceanplexian · 5 months ago

Actually not really.

I spent at least an hour trying to get OpenCode to use a local model and then found a graveyard of PRs begging for Ollama support or even the ability to simply add an OpenAI endpoint in the GUI. I guess the maintainers simply don't care. Tried adding it to the backend config and it kept overwriting/deleting my config. Got frustrated and deleted it. Sorry but not sorry, I shouldn't need another cloud subscription to use your app.

Claude code you can sort of get to work with a bunch of hacks, but it involves setting up a proxy and also isn't supported natively and the tool calling is somewhat messed up.

Warp seemed promising, until I found out the founders would rather alienate their core demographic despite ~900 votes on the GH issue to allow local models https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/4339. So I deleted their crappy app, even Cursor provides some basic support for an OpenAI endpoint.

steveharman · 5 months ago

Just use Claude Router? Supports Ollama and most others.

https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router

steveharman commented on The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass theverge.com/analysis/713... · Posted by u/pseudolus

steveharman · 5 months ago

Uptick in TOR usage?

steveharman commented on Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase github.com/zserge/pennyba... · Posted by u/dcu

steveharman · 6 months ago

Self host Convex https://convex.dev ?

steveharman commented on DIY solar launches in US – no installers or permits needed zdnet.com/home-and-office... · Posted by u/jakestein

steveharman · 7 months ago

Worth noting that despite the relatively impressive battery / storage capacity, I believe there is still an 800W* max limit into the home's AC system from the EcoFlow inverter using this supply method.

Therefore you can forget completely supplying electricity for an oven, kettle or microwave in most cases.

*Due to local regulations: 800W UK, 600W in some parts of Europe - I believe it's 800W in the US but please DYOR.

Having said all that, their existing PowerStream inverter + battery Power Stations work really well and are literally plug & play. I've been running a setup in the UK and it's drastically reduced our electricity consumption from the grid whilst still being a simple plug & play self-install.

steveharman commented on Void: Open-source Cursor alternative github.com/voideditor/voi... · Posted by u/sharjeelsayed

throwup238 · 7 months ago

An important Cursor feature that no one else seems to have implemented yet is documentation indexing. You give it a base URL and it crawls and generates embeddings for API documentation, guides, tutorials, specifications, RFCs, etc in a very language agnostic way. That plus an agent tool to do fuzzy or full text search on those same docs would also be nice. Referring to those @docs in the context works really well to ground the LLMs and eliminate API hallucinations

Back in 2023 one of the cursor devs mentioned [1] that they first convert the HTML to markdown then do n-gram deduplication to remove nav, headers, and footers. The state of the art for chunking has probably gotten a lot better though.

[1] https://forum.cursor.com/t/how-does-docs-crawling-work/264/3

steveharman · 7 months ago

Just use the Context7 MCP ? Actually I'm assuming Void supports MCP.

steveharman commented on Single day Firebase bill for $100k serverlesshorrors.com/all... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

steveharman · 8 months ago

It does seem crazy that the default state for Firebase, CloudFlare et.al is not to alert the account owner when out-of-the-ordinady usage charges hit, say $5k above "the norm". We're not talking a service interruption, just a simple heads-up email to confirm that all is well.