Building Monologue iOS
Summary
Overview
Naveen Naidu, solo developer of Monologue at Every, demonstrated the voice-to-text Mac app and previewed the upcoming iOS release (targeting February 9th). The session focused on advanced features like modes, the notes feature, and how Naveen uses vibe coding with Claude Code and Codex to build competitive products as a solo developer against VC-backed teams.
Key Points
Product Features Demonstrated
- Shortcut triggers: Hold-to-record for quick (5-10 second) recordings, tap-to-toggle for longer sessions (1+ minute brain dumps)
- Modes: App-specific custom instructions that auto-activate based on which app is in focus (e.g., Claude Code mode activates when in Ghostty terminal)
- Auto-enter: Automatically sends the transcribed text without manual confirmation
- Paste last transcript: Quick shortcut to paste previous transcript anywhere
- Notes feature: New capability for longer-form voice capture with transcription and summary
Development Approach
- Uses vibe coding extensively: prototyped entire Notes feature in one hour using brain dumps via Monologue to Claude Code
- Codex vs Claude Code split: Uses Codex for bug fixes and multi-file changes requiring deep codebase understanding; uses Claude Code for creative prototyping and new features
- "Codex is that one senior engineer where it understands all the code... But when I'm vibe coding, I don't usually do Codex because Codex is not that creative"
- Philosophy: "In the age that right now we are living in, implementing features is not really that important. It's knowing what to implement and what actually gets people excited"
Usage Statistics
- P50 average: ~48 words per monologue
- P90 users: 400-1000 words per session
- Power users: 300 times per day
- Two users crossed 1 million words total
- Product growth: From 1 million words/month at launch to 1.5 million words/day
Competitive Landscape
- Space is crowded with VC-backed competitors ($10-80M raised)
- Reframed competition as positive: competitors educate the market, making adoption easier
- "Apple dictation is also there, but which is really bad"
Roadmap Highlights
- iOS launch: February 9th (modes and scores sync across devices)
- Auto-improving modes: Monologue learns from user edits and updates modes automatically
- Spiral integration: Connect notes to Every's writing tool for blog post creation
- Windows support: Future consideration
- Custom skins: Fun personalization feature being considered
- Hardware: Naveen's "crazy idea" (Brandon: "I'm going to take this conversation off the live stream")
Key Insight
The session demonstrated how a solo developer leveraging AI tools (Claude Code, Codex) can build and maintain a product competitive with well-funded teams. The combination of Every's distribution, active Discord feedback loops, and rapid vibe-coded prototyping creates a sustainable development model.
Actionable Takeaway
For voice-to-text workflows: Set up app-specific modes with custom instructions and enable auto-enter. Use hold-to-record for quick inputs and tap-to-toggle for brain dumps. The more context you give (400-1000 words at P90), the better the output.
Key Concepts
Hold-to-Record vs Tap-to-Toggle
Two distinct interaction patterns for voice input: hold-to-record for quick 5-10 second captures using a modifier key, and tap-to-toggle for longer sessions lasting minutes. The choice depends on content length and context.
Modes (App-Specific Custom Instructions)
Context-aware profiles that automatically activate based on which application is in focus. Each mode can have its own system prompt, formatting rules, and behaviors like auto-enter.
Auto-Enter Feature
Eliminates the review step by automatically sending transcribed text upon recording completion. Enables truly hands-free operation when combined with modes.
Codex for Precision, Claude Code for Creativity
Strategic tool selection: use Codex when working with large codebases requiring multi-file understanding and precise edits; use Claude Code when prototyping new features or exploring creative solutions.
Brain Dump Prototyping
Using voice-to-text for extended feature descriptions (400-1000 words), then sending directly to AI coding assistants. Enables rapid prototyping - Naveen built the Notes feature prototype in one hour.
Notable Quotes
"If you want to live in the future you cannot be typing anything. You have to be using your voice. -- Dan Shipper (host)"
"I just love building products. That's it. -- Naveen Naidu"
"In the age that right now we are living in, implementing features is not really that important. It's knowing what to implement and what actually gets people excited. That's the most important part. -- Naveen Naidu"
"Always try to implement the feature and see if you're using it personally or not. If you're not using it, better to throw it away and start from scratch again. -- Naveen Naidu"
Tools Mentioned
Transcript
NAVEEN NAIDU (Every / Monologue) - Building Monologue iOS
=== NAVEEN NAIDU (Every / Monologue) - Building Monologue iOS ===
(06:30:47): monologue naveen welcome
(06:30:49): Thank you.
(06:30:51): I've been keeping a silent tally,
(06:30:55): and I'd say about half the people on here are using Monologue,
(06:30:58): and half of them are between Super Whisper and Whisperflow.
(06:31:02): So I think you're actually doing a good job because you're splitting the competition.
(06:31:07): But we're still, I have shamed every single person who is using Monologue.
(06:31:14): that's good you are if you want to live in the future you cannot be typing anything
(06:31:19): you have to be using your voice and you should use monologue from every built by
(06:31:23): the one and only naveen um i'm gonna let you two have a great conversation and uh
(06:31:27): i'm gonna listen and enjoy awesome thank you
(06:31:32): um all right yeah navine there's been a lot of requests to dig in a bit tomorrow
(06:31:37): when i was uh in my last uh dream people were also asking a lot about modes i think
(06:31:43): like like people yeah people want to know how modes work and what they are so i
(06:31:48): think we should spend some time on that but first things first why don't you
(06:31:52): introduce yourself um
(06:31:55): You're like the smartest guy I've ever met, and I think that's actually an official number.
(06:31:59): I want to hype you up on that.
(06:32:06): This guy is like the 200th smartest guy.
(06:32:09): Not at all.
(06:32:12): Don't do that.
(06:32:13): I just love building products.
(06:32:17): That's it.
(06:32:18): Yeah,
(06:32:18): no,
(06:32:19): Naveen is like one of the best builders I know and one of the most humble people I
(06:32:22): know.
(06:32:22): So it's like an amazing combination, and I think it comes through in the product.
(06:32:27): So what do you want to talk about today?
(06:32:29): Yeah, so for me, oh, hey, Ron.
(06:32:32): So maybe a quick intro.
(06:32:33): I joined every, as a EAR first, around one year, three months, and I did a ton of experiments.
(06:32:40): You can write, like, see my experiments, and I wrote a couple of articles about it as well.
(06:32:45): And Monologue is one of the experiments that came out of it.
(06:32:50): And then when we initially released it internally, people started using it 100 times per day.
(06:32:56): And Kiran is one of the first persons to use it heavily.
(06:33:00): And I'm really grateful to partner with every and also getting every audience as
(06:33:06): early adopters giving me a ton of feedback.
(06:33:09): So that's what made Monologue what right now it is.
(06:33:13): and i want to get a little bit into a few features that monologue has i know a ton
(06:33:19): of people are using like voice to text but monologue also has these advanced
(06:33:22): features that people can take advantage of so i want to just a little bit talk
(06:33:27): about advanced features and then also do a demo of ios app and then at the end
(06:33:32): maybe we can if you have any questions you can talk about those or how i use uh
(06:33:37): VibeCode, Cloud Code or Codex, I can talk about that as well.
(06:33:41): So yeah.
(06:33:42): Cool.
(06:33:43): Yeah,
(06:33:43): maybe while you're going through,
(06:33:44): like,
(06:33:44): if there's any,
(06:33:45): while you're going through some of the functionality,
(06:33:48): I'd love for you to talk about,
(06:33:49): like,
(06:33:51): places where you VibeCoded something versus,
(06:33:53): like,
(06:33:53): where you had to do it by hand and,
(06:33:55): you know,
(06:33:56): where Cloud Code was able to,
(06:33:57): like,
(06:33:57): excel in building this and where it really struggled.
(06:34:01): Yeah.
(06:34:01): I think that might be interesting.
(06:34:02): Awesome.
(06:34:04): I'm going to share my screen.
(06:34:09): Okay.
(06:34:11): So maybe for people who don't know what monologue is, I'll just do a quick intro.
(06:34:15): It's a smart voice to text Mac app right now,
(06:34:18): but in future,
(06:34:19): in a couple of weeks,
(06:34:20): we are releasing the iOS app as well.
(06:34:23): The first thing that you should is the shortcut.
(06:34:29): So right now, my shortcut is right side option key.
(06:34:34): We're not seeing your screen right now.
(06:34:35): Right now.
(06:34:35): Oh, really?
(06:34:40): Let me see.
(06:34:41): Why is that?
(06:34:50): There we go.
(06:34:51): I need to tap on that.
(06:34:53): I didn't know about it.
(06:34:56): Now you can see it.
(06:34:58): Yep.
(06:34:58): Yep.
(06:34:59): We're here.
(06:35:00): Awesome.
(06:35:01): Awesome.
(06:35:01): So yeah, I'm just like, you know, going through the settings.
(06:35:04): So you can set your shortcut to trigger monologue.
(06:35:08): So right now for me, it's right side option key.
(06:35:11): So there are two ways of like, you know, triggering the monologue.
(06:35:15): One is hold to record.
(06:35:16): This is for quick recordings.
(06:35:17): If you want to do five to 10 seconds recordings, you can just hold the right side option key.
(06:35:24): yeah how is it going and then once you're done you can just like you know leave it
(06:35:29): and then text gets pasted wherever your current active cursor is and for longer
(06:35:38): recording yeah so for one minute like sometimes i'm doing brain upside
(06:35:49): One thing I have is give as much as much to do and then it performs that much better.
(06:36:00): So option key and then you get that option key and then you get back.
(06:36:09): Navin, we're kind of losing you right now.
(06:36:11): Hey, Navin, are you there?
(06:36:19): Yeah, I'm here.
(06:36:21): You're cutting out pretty bad.
(06:36:22): Maybe you can hop on your hotspot or something.
(06:36:30): Yeah.
(06:36:31): AI can't fix this.
(06:36:33): Worst of all,
(06:36:33): I know exactly where Naveen is right now,
(06:36:35): which he's in the every office,
(06:36:38): which we have phenomenal Wi-Fi.
(06:36:40): But I think that's just some, you know, I think we got to blame this one on Spectrum.
(06:36:47): And that's what Spectrum Brooklyn Wi-Fi is like.
(06:36:52): But I think Naveen will be back here in a second.
(06:36:55): There we go.
(06:36:58): Okay.
(06:36:59): I connected to my hotspot.
(06:37:00): How is it looking?
(06:37:01): Much better.
(06:37:04): Much better.
(06:37:04): Sorry about that.
(06:37:05): I think, yeah, everyone is like on the stream, right?
(06:37:08): Yeah.
(06:37:09): It might be.
(06:37:11): I have a question about how people use monologue.
(06:37:18): Maybe you can start sharing your screen again so they know.
(06:37:21): Do you have any data on how many people are holding it versus the length of a monologue?
(06:37:29): Is the length of a monologue typically a short monologue,
(06:37:34): or is it a long one,
(06:37:35): like they're putting a huge prompt into Cloud Code?
(06:37:38): Yeah,
(06:37:39): so last time I checked,
(06:37:41): the average is around P50,
(06:37:43): average is around 48 words,
(06:37:45): but P90,
(06:37:47): ton of people who put in the words,
(06:37:49): it's around 400 to 1000 words.
(06:37:51): So actually people are like,
(06:37:53): talking a lot to their cloud code or codex.
(06:37:56): And that's a good thing.
(06:37:58): Because you're giving as much context and you get better output.
(06:38:02): OK.
(06:38:02): So yeah.
(06:38:04): Can you guys see my screen?
(06:38:06): No.
(06:38:07): Oh, now we do.
(06:38:08): Yeah.
(06:38:10): Okay, awesome.
(06:38:11): Yeah, that's a quick intro.
(06:38:13): Let me maybe talk more about mods and then we can then get back to other features.
(06:38:18): So mods is one thing.
(06:38:19): What's actually happening is we have these custom instructions.
(06:38:23): If you tell who you are and what you do,
(06:38:25): and then if you have any calendar links or phone numbers or anything like that,
(06:38:29): you can just mention it here in your custom instructions.
(06:38:32): What happens is Monolog understands you much better.
(06:38:35): So the output that you get from Monolog is much better.
(06:38:38): So that's one quick tip I recommend everyone to just like do a brain dump here.
(06:38:44): Like you can come here, tell about yourself and then it would be great.
(06:38:49): uh some people actually use uh you know also mention either to use british british
(06:38:55): english or like their own way of how they talk and then you can just uh mention it
(06:39:01): in here and coming to modes so we have this parap mode for example right now i have
(06:39:06): this cloud code mode where i added ghosty which is my terminal and barb maybe i can
(06:39:13): also add my
(06:39:14): Claude app.
(06:39:16): So what happens is whenever you are on that app and you start a monologue session,
(06:39:21): it automatically activates this particular mode,
(06:39:24): Claude code mode.
(06:39:25): And how I personally work is I have this auto enter as well enabled.
(06:39:30): So let me open ghost.
(06:39:32): So right now I'm opening codex.
(06:39:45): Hey, can you go through my code base and see if there are any kind of perks?
(06:39:52): And right now I just selected that recording, right?
(06:39:55): I stopped it and my hands are, it all entered.
(06:40:00): Did you see that?
(06:40:01): Yeah.
(06:40:01): So basically you're,
(06:40:02): you're like blindly just trusting that it's going to get,
(06:40:06): uh,
(06:40:08): your transcription correct and,
(06:40:10): and you're going to send it.
(06:40:11): So you're really going hands-free as much as you, you possibly can.
(06:40:14): Yeah.
(06:40:15): No, you're not.
(06:40:16): Yeah.
(06:40:17): Yeah.
(06:40:18): I don't have any instructions usually like,
(06:40:20): because default monologue is really good and I want to like experience how the
(06:40:23): default monologue works.
(06:40:25): So that's why I don't.
(06:40:26): But enough people actually come here and add some custom instructions so that they
(06:40:30): can merge in the right direction.
(06:40:31): So for me, it's just like tap, talk, tap, paste the text, it auto sends.
(06:40:38): I think that's one of the best ways for you to work with Codex or Cloud Code.
(06:40:43): And I believe, yeah, other apps don't do it, so yeah.
(06:40:46): Yeah,
(06:40:47): I want you to show everybody a feature that I don't think many people know about,
(06:40:49): which is the ability to toggle through modes while you're actually monologuing.
(06:40:55): Because I find that to be really helpful sometimes.
(06:40:59): Yeah.
(06:40:59): Let's say if you're in cloud code and it automatically added this, right?
(06:41:02): Cloud code.
(06:41:03): And then here you can click on change mode.
(06:41:07): here you can actually like, oh, I want to have a different mode now.
(06:41:11): You can just go to the different mode.
(06:41:13): Yeah.
(06:41:14): My favorite example of that is somebody made a mode that was like,
(06:41:17): it had added an emoji,
(06:41:18): a clapping emoji in between every word.
(06:41:21): So if they like really wanted to make a point while they were monologuing,
(06:41:23): they like toggle to that mode.
(06:41:25): And I think you can do that via the keyboard as well.
(06:41:29): Yeah.
(06:41:30): So yeah.
(06:41:32): Cool.
(06:41:34): Yeah, that's the most feature.
(06:41:36): If anyone has any questions, I can answer that.
(06:41:39): We can go on.
(06:41:42): Cool.
(06:41:44): Yeah, what else do you want to get into?
(06:41:46): Yeah, the next thing is really cool thing is the paste loss transcript.
(06:41:51): I think not a ton of people know about it.
(06:41:54): For example,
(06:41:54): if you're coding,
(06:41:55): sometimes I have codex,
(06:41:59): add Claude code opened at the same time,
(06:42:02): and then I just like do a brain dump,
(06:42:04): big brain dump,
(06:42:05): right?
(06:42:06): And then once it's done,
(06:42:08): I just come to Claude code and then hit,
(06:42:10): my shortcut is control V,
(06:42:13): and then that gets pasted.
(06:42:15): So yeah.
(06:42:16): like here that like my previous transcript gets pasted immediately and that's a
(06:42:22): cool way for you to access your lost transcript and then other thing is here you
(06:42:27): can access mac menu bar you can just see all my these all your recent transcripts
(06:42:32): and you can access uh the patient transcripts as well what about um what about the
(06:42:37): notes feature
(06:42:40): That is coming soon.
(06:42:41): Should we talk about it?
(06:42:43): I think let's talk about it.
(06:42:44): I also think you should talk about how you built it.
(06:42:46): I'm sure you haven't written much code for it.
(06:42:49): Yeah.
(06:42:51): Let me do that.
(06:42:56): Yeah.
(06:42:56): Okay.
(06:42:56): Awesome.
(06:42:57): So I'll talk more about how notes work.
(06:43:00): So the first thing that we did here is actually
(06:43:03): If you wanted to implement a notes feature.
(06:43:05): Wait, hang on.
(06:43:06): Before we get into this, I just want to make clear for everybody.
(06:43:09): We have monologue iOS launching.
(06:43:12): We're aiming for February 9th.
(06:43:14): That might change like a couple days, but we're aiming for February 9th.
(06:43:17): I've been using it for a month and a half.
(06:43:19): We have like hundreds of people that have been using it.
(06:43:22): um it works extremely well it's my go-to um everything that you do on the mac app
(06:43:27): just like transcribing directly from your keyboard it works beautifully here all of
(06:43:31): your modes are synced um and your scores are synced so it's like very unified but
(06:43:38): notes is a feature that we're also uh launching so um we're just gonna talk i use
(06:43:43): notes this morning on a hike so like i'm really stoked about about notes
(06:43:47): Yeah.
(06:43:47): Yeah.
(06:43:48): So for us,
(06:43:48): the notes feature,
(06:43:49): like how I initially implemented it is just went to Codex and then went to cloud
(06:43:55): code.
(06:43:56): I just did a brain dump using monologue saying, okay, this is what I want.
(06:44:00): And then it just white coded everything from scratch.
(06:44:03): So that's the age that we are living in.
(06:44:06): So let me do a quick demo so you can click on this new button.
(06:44:12): this is the ui that we got uh you can just go like once you start the recording you
(06:44:18): can put it in the background as well you can see the timer is spinning and then it
(06:44:24): also shows up in your home bar as well saying it's still recording and then once
(06:44:29): you're done you can just stop it automatically sends uh to the background and then
(06:44:36): we'll be getting the transcript and summary and everything so this is how like you
(06:44:40): know so but one
(06:44:42): Right now,
(06:44:43): it looks everything well polished,
(06:44:45): but when we initially prototyped,
(06:44:49): the big thing that we able to do it is I'm able to write coded it in one hour and
(06:44:54): start sharing it internally.
(06:44:56): And people start giving the feedback.
(06:44:57): I think that's one of the best ways for you to use this codex.
(06:45:03): If you have an idea, just go talk about it, use monologue, and then implement that feature.
(06:45:10): Just start sharing and talking.
(06:45:12): in the age that right now we are living in implementing features is not really that
(06:45:18): uh important it's knowing what to implement and what actually gets uh people
(06:45:22): excited that's the most important part for us when do you use codex versus when you
(06:45:29): like hand it sounds like you start with codex and then you hand off the cloud code
(06:45:31): how do you split the two
(06:45:33): Yeah,
(06:45:35): I'm a big Codex fan because Codex is really good at understanding Swift,
(06:45:42): iOS and Mac code base.
(06:45:43): Right now, Mac, it's a huge code base.
(06:45:47): Slowly iOS is also getting there and Codex is really good at that.
(06:45:51): So whenever I'm fixing any bug,
(06:45:54): or implementing any feature that involves ton of files,
(06:45:57): ton of context,
(06:45:59): I just give that to Codex because Codex is that one senior engineer where it
(06:46:05): understands all the code,
(06:46:06): everything,
(06:46:07): and it does that precise edits.
(06:46:10): But when I'm wipe coding,
(06:46:11): I don't usually do codecs because codecs is like,
(06:46:14): it's not that creative.
(06:46:16): So that's when I go to plot code.
(06:46:19): Oh, this is the feature I'm thinking.
(06:46:20): What do you think?
(06:46:21): And then it just goes and implements it and gives me a prototype that I can quickly
(06:46:26): iterate or test.
(06:46:29): Okay, cool.
(06:46:33): What's been one surprising thing that you've encountered while building out iOS?
(06:46:41): Let me start.
(06:46:44): So the cool thing that we did is we are getting ton of requests for iOS app.
(06:46:50): And I'm like, should we do it?
(06:46:51): Because I'm the only guy working on Mac app and there's still ton of features that
(06:46:56): I want to implement within Mac.
(06:46:58): So the cool thing is I just went, pipe coded the whole thing, but I started using it personally.
(06:47:04): So that's a good learning point for me is always try to implement the feature and
(06:47:11): see if you're using it personally or not.
(06:47:13): if you're not using it better to throw it away and start from scratch again so the
(06:47:19): interesting thing that i learned is how much people actually talk and choose
(06:47:23): dictation i never thought there are people uh who are using it 300 times per day
(06:47:30): which is crazy and then we recently two people crossed one million words talking to
(06:47:36): monologue well i think it's amazing that you're like what are you number 80
(06:47:41): Yeah, I think you shot my screen.
(06:47:46): I'm 80.
(06:47:47): Yeah,
(06:47:47): I mean,
(06:47:47): that's remarkable that the only builder of this product,
(06:47:51): and you probably use it every day because you're dogfooding it,
(06:47:53): is 80.
(06:47:54): It's pretty remarkable.
(06:47:56): So yeah, people are loving it.
(06:47:57): I mean,
(06:47:58): I think when we launched it,
(06:47:58): we had like a million words a month,
(06:48:00): and we were like psyched,
(06:48:01): and now we're doing like a million a day.
(06:48:03): I think now we are hitting 1.5 million a day.
(06:48:07): So it's getting, yeah, a ton of people are
(06:48:11): started using monologue and it's really awesome.
(06:48:14): Yeah.
(06:48:16): Cool.
(06:48:16): What's next for monologue?
(06:48:19): I'm seeing a bunch of requests in the comments.
(06:48:22): I've seen people asking for mode templates, which I think is a great idea.
(06:48:29): Maybe a public library of mode templates.
(06:48:33): Obviously PC and Windows, a lot of requests for that.
(06:48:38): I just saw somebody asking if this can replace granola,
(06:48:42): which I know we're not like...
(06:48:45): People will do that,
(06:48:46): but I don't know if that's the point of it yet,
(06:48:48): especially on desktop.
(06:48:49): I don't know how notes is going on desktop yet, but I know we have a vision.
(06:48:53): What in your mind are you like...
(06:48:56): I want to break it up into two different questions.
(06:48:58): What are you most excited to build as like your just like most harebrained crazy idea?
(06:49:04): And what do you think is the most realistic thing that you need to build next for?
(06:49:09): Yeah, here's my crazy idea.
(06:49:12): I'm pitching it to Brandon as well.
(06:49:15): And he's like, okay, let's wait for a second.
(06:49:18): If you want to build hardware.
(06:49:21): I'm going to take this conversation off the live stream.
(06:49:25): My crazy idea is more luck shouldn't have a hardware product.
(06:49:29): so but uh yeah it's a huge investment so that's not it at least this uh short term
(06:49:35): the next couple of uh at least six months goal is with most ton of people are
(06:49:41): asking okay that they want templates that's good but i want to give more than
(06:49:46): templates template i feel is an easy way out like you putting ton of things people
(06:49:50): can copy this and that's good starting point but for me
(06:49:55): If you're in cloud code or if you're in iMessage or Discord and then you paste like
(06:50:00): you did Bonolog and text got pasted and then you edited it out.
(06:50:04): Like you've collected some of the things that Monolog got wrong or you know that's
(06:50:11): not how you usually write.
(06:50:14): Monolog actually actually learns from it.
(06:50:17): and then goes and updates the mode underlying.
(06:50:20): So what happens is it learns from you as you use monologue more and then obviously
(06:50:26): modes are transparent so you can go and edit it out.
(06:50:30): So that's the goal that I'm planning towards so that you have this like really
(06:50:36): well-adaptive understanding smart voice to text software on your laptop and on your
(06:50:42): iOS as well.
(06:50:44): so that's my crazy idea that automatically modes get updated and then whatever you
(06:50:49): type uh typing like it's better for you to just use voice yeah well that also seems
(06:50:54): like it's you know that that would be super beneficial for for everyone what would
(06:50:58): would you answer the other question of just like hey you're just getting hit over
(06:51:02): the head with this same request over and over
(06:51:05): Yeah, same request iOS.
(06:51:07): People are getting like requests are getting.
(06:51:10): So I think we are getting there.
(06:51:11): And second one is the notes feature.
(06:51:14): And to answer your question where, you know, is it like a Granola replacement?
(06:51:19): I would say no.
(06:51:21): We are personally not going off the Granola or like meeting notes space.
(06:51:26): It's more about like Granola is I think good for people who are in like living in
(06:51:30): the meetings day in day out for people who are like uh need to make decisions and
(06:51:36): stay in meetings uh but for monologue it's more about let's say if you have less
(06:51:40): than five meetings or something like that per week monologue can be a good
(06:51:44): alternative and then monologue can be a good partner when you have stream of
(06:51:50): thoughts and you immediately want to record on the go so you can just start it like
(06:51:56): we also have widgets so like you can just click on it you don't even have to open
(06:52:00): the app
(06:52:01): You can just start immediately recording and then stop it.
(06:52:04): It will be on your laptop.
(06:52:06): It will get synced.
(06:52:07): It will be on your phone as well.
(06:52:09): And then we will be in future integrating with Spiral.
(06:52:13): That's another writing product from Emory.
(06:52:16): And then obviously you can convert that into whatever that you think.
(06:52:24): My goal is write a blog post.
(06:52:26): Just a blog post.
(06:52:27): It makes so much sense to connect the two.
(06:52:29): I was on a walk this morning and I had an idea.
(06:52:33): I opened up monologue.
(06:52:34): I took a note and the only thing that was missing was a button that was send a
(06:52:39): spiral and choose my style in spiral.
(06:52:43): That flow sounds pretty magical to me.
(06:52:47): We have seven minutes left, Navin.
(06:52:52): have sort of like a uh i i have kind of a controversial topic that we can talk
(06:52:56): about um but before we get there i want to uh just know if there's anything else
(06:53:02): that you want to share with everyone yeah uh just i know there are a ton of uh
(06:53:09): competitors in this space this space is like really crowded right now and the only
(06:53:14): way for
(06:53:15): for me to like you know think okay people ask me right this is a question i think
(06:53:20): people kind of people ask why are building in this space i personally feel even
(06:53:25): though there are a ton of crowded uh things the way i work no app supports me and
(06:53:31): that's why we added mods that's why we had this auto enter feature so i think uh
(06:53:37): yeah like uh i'm like
(06:53:39): good with even though there's competition it's good so i'm actually talking with
(06:53:44): none of users so that's why if anyone like in the discord or anyone who is
(06:53:48): interacting with me knows like i want more people to give me feedback so that
(06:53:52): monologue gets uh improved a lot so everyone can just use it the way i personally
(06:53:58): use it cool um
(06:54:01): I think, yeah, I mean, that ties into sort of what I want to talk about next.
(06:54:04): But before we do that, I do want to mention, Courtney just said, when do we get custom skins?
(06:54:10): And, like, that was one of the very, very first ideas that we had.
(06:54:14): And we actually had the ability to, like, choose different colors.
(06:54:17): But I think that's,
(06:54:18): like,
(06:54:18): such a fun idea to get,
(06:54:20): like,
(06:54:20): I want this sort of,
(06:54:21): like,
(06:54:21): see-through Nintendo DS.
(06:54:25): uh skin that you can apply and like i just think there's a lot of fun things that
(06:54:28): we can we can do that ios and desktop um okay so yeah the the the note that i took
(06:54:36): this morning was um i just had this realization that uh i i tweet a lot about how
(06:54:42): like monologue and you are building a product that is competitive uh in this super
(06:54:49): crowded space that people are saying is better than competitors
(06:54:54): And you're one person and every other app in this space is VC backed teams that
(06:55:01): have raised between 10 million and $80 million.
(06:55:03): You're one person,
(06:55:05): you have the support of every but even every has raised less than like $700,000.
(06:55:12): you're one person building this out and what i realized this morning is like it's
(06:55:17): actually amazing in this day and age to build a product and have competitors that
(06:55:24): have raised a ton of money because getting people to use new ai prop to use
(06:55:30): products that are that use ai is really hard there's a lot of education and
(06:55:34): educating educating a market is so expensive and we have competitors that are
(06:55:39): spending millions of dollars educating a market
(06:55:44): And you building a product that is just as good, if not better.
(06:55:49): And obviously the distribution of every.
(06:55:51): So I realized how thankful I am actually that we have these competitors that have
(06:55:57): raised so much money to like sort of seed the market and teach people to use this
(06:56:03): type of tool.
(06:56:05): Yeah, a hundred percent.
(06:56:05): Even I'm like,
(06:56:06): I think this week I realized that even when a few people are asking what's the best
(06:56:11): voice to text app on X and Monologue is getting mentioned recently,
(06:56:17): so which is really great feeling.
(06:56:19): But at the same time, like market, you know, other companies are educating it.
(06:56:25): Apple dictation is also there, but which is really bad.
(06:56:28): And,
(06:56:29): you know,
(06:56:29): if market is mature and if you have a great product,
(06:56:33): I think it works out at the end.
(06:56:35): Yeah, I mean, you should be really, really proud of what you've done.
(06:56:39): And we've got a lot coming down the pipe right now.
(06:56:42): Again, iOS launching early February.
(06:56:46): It's very, very well done.
(06:56:50): All the same tools that you have in desktop built into iOS.
(06:56:54): Notes is launching in iOS and I believe on desktop too.
(06:56:58): It's not a granola replacement, but if you want to, you could use it for that.
(06:57:05): Naveen is going to be building an auto-improving feature,
(06:57:09): it sounds like,
(06:57:10): so that it catches when you actually change an output and automatically improves
(06:57:16): future dictations.
(06:57:17): But we got a lot in the pipe.
(06:57:19): I mean, I know that we are excited about building out for Windows at some point.
(06:57:23): Big opportunity there.
(06:57:27): Skins are fun.
(06:57:28): A lot of magical moments that we can add.
(06:57:32): to the experience.
(06:57:35): Yeah,
(06:57:35): having users in our Discord,
(06:57:38): I think that's a great feeling because a ton of people just give feedback and we
(06:57:43): have a rich roadmap now.
(06:57:47): Yeah,
(06:57:47): I mean,
(06:57:47): speaking of which,
(06:57:48): you know,
(06:57:49): if you're listening to this and you're excited about Monologue or your current user
(06:57:54): of Monologue and you want to impact the roadmap,
(06:57:59): Every has a super active Discord.
(06:58:02): So all you need to do is go to every.to,
(06:58:04): become a paid subscriber,
(06:58:06): and you'll get access to our Discord where we have...
(06:58:09): channels for cloud code channels for all of our different apps um it's very active
(06:58:14): people sharing things people are announcing products that they've launched but one
(06:58:18): of those channels is monologue and um people give a lot of feedback in there and
(06:58:22): navin is in there um uh chatting with everybody in in real time so um this is my my
(06:58:29): last call to go to monologue.to and download it and uh keep an eye out for ios
(06:58:36): launch early february
(06:58:38): Yeah, try it out.
(06:58:39): If there are any issues,
(06:58:40): any feedback,
(06:58:41): anything,
(06:58:42): just ping me and happy to take a look and fix it immediately.
(06:58:46): Yeah, Naveen is grinding.
(06:58:48): He's in our Brooklyn office right now from spending a month, two months in New York from India.
(06:58:56): And like the week that you got there,
(06:58:58): Dan DMed me and was like,
(06:58:59): Naveen hasn't gotten up for nine hours.
(06:59:04): Yeah, he told me about that.
(06:59:06): And I thought that's normal.
(06:59:09): I think for some of us, it's normal.
(06:59:11): I'm with you there.
(06:59:13): Definitely.
(06:59:14): Levine, thank you so much for joining us.
(06:59:18): Appreciate you.
(06:59:19): Awesome.
(06:59:19): This is super fun.
(06:59:21): And the whole day, it's super fun to listen to other speakers.
(06:59:25): I'm super pumped to take those ideas back to my monologue building things.
(06:59:33): yeah thank you thank you brandon cool man yeah see you there all right so we have