I made a puppet of myself to demo my free Apple Watch voice notes app [video]
Hey HN, I just released my first iOS app, Stardate– a way to take very quick voice notes with your Apple Watch or iPhone. The features are kind of a mouthful: one tap to start a note, local Whisper transcription, automatic export of all data to iCloud Drive, metadata export for use with an AI... Since it's kind of hard to explain all that in text, I knew I needed to make a demo video. But I'm a bit camera shy and didn't want to get a haircut. Fortunately I made this puppet of myself for Halloween so I thought, maybe it'd be better to have Lil Dean do the demo. Is it working? Check out…
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Hey HN, I just released my first iOS app, Stardate– a way to take very quick voice notes with your Apple Watch or iPhone. The features are kind of a mouthful: one tap to start a note, local Whisper transcription, automatic export of all data to iCloud Drive, metadata export for use with an AI... Since it's kind of hard to explain all that in text, I knew I needed to make a demo video. But I'm a bit camera shy and didn't want to get a haircut. Fortunately I made this puppet of myself for Halloween so I thought, maybe it'd be better to have Lil Dean do the demo. Is it working? Check out Stardate here: [0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stardate-notes/id6496679661 [1] https://stardateapp.com
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