Nick Payne

I'm chuffed to bits to be launching talat.app - 100% private, 100% on device realtime meeting transcription and summarisation. Think Granola, but none of your data ever leaves your device, and without your every interaction being tracked. The beta launches today: macOS m-series chips only for now

We won an award! 🏆 Very proud to scoop Prolific North's "App of the Year" award with @talat.app last week 😊 talat.app/blog/talat-w...

I wrote up a quick comparison between @talatapp and Google's new experimental local-first meeting notetaker, 'Foresight' talat.app/blog/google-...

I'm experimenting with a new transcript layout on talat.app Left: current view - new paragraph per utterance Right: condensed view - color coded utterances Thoughts?

I wrote (Claude wrote) a little app I can invoke with a hotkey and type any number into, and it'll bring up GitHub issue numbers ranked by relevance and recency. Enter gives me a preview inline in the window, enter again opens the link on GitHub. Saves me a ton of time over the course of a day

Notifications CTAs are better in the next release of talat. Today, the "Dismiss" button carries equal weight with the secondary CTA ("Stop recording" in the second shot). The danger CTA state ("Delete recording") is completely new - a glaring gap in today's notifications 🫣

If you use talat - how would you vote? In fact, why not go one better and answer directly on discord? discord.gg/EZfV9yHzXR

We have thousands of unit and in-memory database tests on talat, but the stability of our end-to-end suite - which drives the real desktop application we ship to users - has suffered recently. Not anymore. Pleased to get this one green again 🟢

Another talat dictation feature coming soon (built purely to scratch my own itch): refocus the *last* app you dictated into. Great when you're having e.g. an ongoing conversation with Claude and don't want to have to manually refocus your terminal to resume it

Looking forward to shipping this one. I can't count the number of times I've absent-mindedly hit escape during a long, rambling dictation and accidentally cancelled it. The next version of talat gives you two seconds grace to undo a cancellation and pick up dictating where you left off.

This is batshit openai.com/index/advanc...

Yesterday: one of our worst days ever 🔻😭 Today: our best day ever 🔺🥳 Indie life in a nutshell

I keep filling my M4 Mac Mini's 500GB disk. It looks like a combination of this enclosure: www.amazon.co.uk/OWC-Portable... And this stick: www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Inte... Should do the job? But, especially on the storage side, the options are... somewhat overwhelming. All help appreciated 🙏

I selfishly snuck in a new @talat.app feature purely for ME. My home office is upstairs, my wife's is downstairs, and if we're both on a call with our doors open (summer - it's hot), speech from her room could occasionally leak into my transcripts. Well, not anymore 😎

We built a tool for @talat.app where AI agents can upload screenshots with context (branch, commit, description, etc), and humans and AI can search the 'gallery' I love it. It's a durable, visual evolution of the product, and lets agents attach and 'see' screenshots on GitHub PRs

Seriously - when did this become okay? When did we get this lazy? Over 600MB just for the download 1.4 gigabytes when installed wtf

Just how fancy is this bloody nest going to be?

Pfft, and my wife says I'm not cool 😎

AGI achieved

Hands up if you're happy to see those rate limits reset this morning 🙋

Get this shit to the very TOP 🔺

If I had to take a shot every time I read the phrase "load-bearing", I'd be drunk every day by 7am

New month, new me. I promise all diffs will be like this for the entirety of July. Honest. 🫡

June talat highlights: - Dictation mode - File import mode - Better multilingual support, especially for non-latin and right-to-left languages - Improved capitalisation and punctuation during real-time transcription - A more capable MCP connector that writes to talat as well as reading from it

I'm sure I sound like a broken record at this point, but I am enormously proud of the latest talat release. Every significant release we ship makes the last one feel obsolete. And we've already got a ton more awesome stuff lined up for the *next* release.

The Northern Powerhouse

So much work went into the 0.12.x release. We're getting ever closer to the elusive 1.0.0 milestone and the end of pre-release. I can't wait!

Final preflight checks for @talat.app 0.12.0 are underway

Woohoo! No more bumping into ultra-conservative Claude design limits. Might not be celebrating if/when Claude Design chews through my quota faster than usual, but for now, awesome.

We're on discord! A few of you asked, so here it is. Come and join us to talk about all things talat: discord.gg/WhsaWejN

Oops. We don't talk about what happened there. Everything went perfectly smoothly.

It's no bun rewrite, but we're exploring a really exciting spike which would open up a load of new possibilities on @talat.app

Granola locked users' meeting transcripts. So a web dev with 20 years of experience built @talat.app. The app has a one-time fee of $49, uses offline models for transcription, and allows MCP connections. weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/how-talat-built-a-local-first-stack

This is a good one for anyone using either of the recently added Apple or Google Calendar integrations 👇

Really proud of the latest talat release and the redesign we shipped last week. Big thanks to everyone who fed back on the old design and helped push us to create something better, and hopefully more futureproof as we head towards version 1.0.0 and beyond.

ICYMI, which you probably did, because both features - which are super useful - are currently stuck behind a context menu click (we're working on this in a forthcoming release)

Who says you don't push to production on a Friday afternoon?

Product Of The Day! 🥇 @talat.app scoops first place on Fazier - thank you all for the support 🙇🏻‍♂️

We've listed @talat.app on fazier this morning - it's nosed ahead into an early lead but we could really use your support by way of an upvote as the day rolls on - registration only takes a second and it would help us out a lot 🙏 fazier.com/launches/talat

I've had no time to maintain Bluesky Boost (chromewebstore.google.com/detail/blues...) in the last year or so. Every time I nervously open it when I return to bsky web I cross my fingers it still works. Amazingly, as of right now, it still does! Note to me: give it some TLC. It's still cool.

wb bsky! Yesterday was a tough day, eh?

Almost couldn't fit the entire changelog in one screenshot this time for the v0.8.0 @talat.app release. We really do need to work on making these *smaller*, which would be better for my heart each time we do start preparing and regression testing each release! Feedback always much appreciated 👇

We're more conservative with our release schedule on @talat.app than I'd like to be. I'd love to be releasing every day. But the risk of bricking a desktop app install is real. I received this error when trying to auto-update my favourite push-to-dictate app, FluidVoice, just now. Desktop is HARD.

Is it just me who is hopelessly incapable of syncing their cal.com availability to reality? Every time I think I've nailed it, and added any upcoming availability exceptions, someone books the ONE slot I immediately realise I can't do. I need a cal.com to manage my cal.com

These small fixes make a big difference - keep an eye out for the 0.7.1 @talat.app update folks

Delighted to get this one out in the wild! The diff from 0.5.1 to 0.60 is ridiculous - it's way too big, making the release a little more scary than it needed to be, but I'm relieved we got there and excited to get it into the hands of our early adopters. Check it out at talat.app