What we noticed.
Short essays about voice-first writing, the gap Recitey fills on Windows, and the small architectural choices that change how a tool feels in daily use.
- For developers
Why Developers Stopped Typing Design Docs
The bottleneck in developer workflows shifted. It wasn't gradual. It happened when Claude and Cursor became the default IDE, not the auxiliary tool. You've stopped typing code and started typing intent, which means...
- For developers
The Word Cap Trap: Why Local Whisper Changes the Dictation Game
You're 1600 words into a design doc at 11pm on a Sunday. The architecture is clicking. You're explaining how the settlement routing logic handles edge cases when your dictation tool stops recording. Word limit hit. The...
- For developers
You explained it perfectly on the call. Then your tool stopped recording.
Most voice tools cap the free tier because cloud transcription costs money per word. When you're drafting a design doc at 11pm and hit that cap mid-thought, you lose momentum. Fragmented prose. The thinking gone.
- For developers
No word limit. Why it matters, and how it works.
You're 45 minutes into dictating a design doc. The architecture is still flowing. Then the app tells you you've hit the free tier word cap. You lose momentum. The next morning, you re-read what you dictated and the...
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Speaking in Paragraphs, Not Sentences
You explain the system architecture perfectly on the call. You hang up, open the design doc, and realize you've got 1,847 words left in your dictation budget for the day. Marcus, a backend engineer at a Series B...
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Local First, Metered Never: Why Cloud Transcription Tools Charge Per Word
Every voice-to-text tool you've heard of limits free usage. Wispr caps you at 600 words per month. Willow allows 10 hours of audio. Superwhisper charges from day one. They all do this because they run transcription on...
- For developers
Why Local Whisper Costs Nothing (And Why That Matters for Developers)
Developers writing design documents, PR descriptions, and incident postmortems hit the same wall: you voice-draft naturally, then realize you've hit a word cap and have to switch to typing. Or you explain the...
- For developers
Why Every Voice Tool Caps the Free Tier (And Why Recitey Doesn't)
Every dictation tool you've tried probably has the same pattern: a limited free tier that gates you toward paid within weeks. The cap isn't arbitrary, it's architectural. Tools that rely on cloud transcription have...
- For developers
The word limit isn't a feature; it's a cost problem
Every transcription app with a capped free tier has the same explanation: server costs. Cloud transcription's expensive per minute, so they've gotta meter you. Recitey's free tier runs Whisper locally on your device....