Yap

Yap

Fast, private voice dictation for Mac and Windows

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What is Yap?

Yap is voice dictation for Mac and Windows. Hold a shortcut, speak, and let go: Yap turns your speech into clean, punctuated text and types it into the app you are using, from email and docs to chat and terminals. Speech recognition runs on your computer, so recordings are never uploaded. Works offline, 25 languages detected automatically, searchable local history.

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FounderPlaybooks.

What other founders did to grow.

2722 dispatches from hundreds of founders, pulled from the week's best podcasts.

Audience
like snap it's totally different like the way to approach an app is totally different than facebook the way to approach tic tocs totally different snap right the way to approach outbrain taboola totally different than any of those you know the way to approach youtube is even different

Post-ATT, Each Ad Platform Needs Its Own Creative Approach — There's No Facebook Template

Facebook's dominance let developers ignore multi-channel expertise because its targeting worked regardless of creative format. Post-ATT, diversifying means genuinely learning each platform's distinct creative and targeting logic — Snap, TikTok, YouTube, and Outbrain each require different creative formats, audience structures, and bid strategies. There is no one-size-fits-all approach.

Product
it's so powerful to be the first best customer of your API... having those consumer products can be a superpower for the API... it's a better API when internally you can be testing against it and know what the experience is of building against that API

Consumer apps are the best dogfood for your API product

ElevenLabs builds consumer apps in part because they make the API better. Internally using the product surfaces quality issues, latency problems, and UX friction that external API customers experience but rarely report clearly. The consumer product and API product become mutually reinforcing: shipping a better consumer experience reveals model improvements needed, which compounds the technical moat for API customers as well.

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