How Speech to Note Desktop/Mac app came into existence
Hello again
I wanted to write about a quick journey on how we execute ideas that are already validated and can really be very useful for our users.
So with that…
Let me tell you how Speech to Note Desktop came to exist.
We started with a simple problem: converting speech into text.
Back in 2023, with AI already adding speech capabilities everywhere, I thought this was an absolute banger of a time where we could not just convert speech into text, but also convert it into meaningful notes like emails, contacts, task lists for the team, messages for buddies on WhatsApp.
There were so many things as a product design agency owner for me to work on that I thought, “This makes sense.”
That’s how we started a simple application that made it to web.
A year later, we launched the mobile app, which allowed you to record on the go without worrying about turning on your laptop, and gave you a handy way to quickly label or tag your notes.
We kept adding meaningful features over the next 18 months to both web and mobile apps.
But one of the predominant places where I spent a lot of time was the desktop itself.
Then I saw an opportunity to build something for myself again.
I got a recommendation for another app, which, to be honest, was pretty awesome.
And I thought, “Hey, why not give something to our users in the same space who are already using Speech to Note? It would be pretty awesome if they got an application for voice typing in the same ecosystem.”
That’s where the idea clicked:
Since we’re already available for note-taking on web, for blabbering random ideas on the go via mobile, for recording one-on-one meetings on mobile up to 60 minutes, why can’t we make a voice typing application and lock it or associate it with the same account users have already signed up for?
Give them access to one absolute gem of an ecosystem where they need to sign up once and get access to speech-to-text-to-notes on every damn machine they own.
So yeah, that’s where the idea started.
Here we are now:
We’re a mobile app. We’re a web app. And it took just 31 days from the idea popping up in my head to shipping the Mac app.
31 days in between showing off first concepts to launching an idea fast.
The idea got validated because there was already an existing application doing well.
I gave it certain twists from my angle because this workflow works well for me: starting a recording, going through pages or articles in different tabs of my browser, blabbering my thoughts while collecting ideas, eventually stopping the recording, and making some format out of it.
This Mac application, which we already have live, was delivered in 31 days with the fantastic team we have at Speech to Note headquarters.
We’ve already started receiving amazing feedback from users.
It’s a kick-ass thing, and it really feels like we’re building momentum towards giving access to this ecosystem to our entire base of 8,000 users, 1,500 paid users (although most are lifetime deal users, but still).
Giving them access to this kind of wonderful ecosystem gives me chills, makes me very happy, and makes me go bonkers thinking about what we’re about to build next.
What’s next:
We’ve launched for Mac. We’re targeting to launch for Windows before Christmas.
That announcement has already made a lot of users in our ecosystem go buzzing, and I’m really looking forward to it.
Thanks for being part of this journey.
Abhishek
Founder, Speech to Note
P.S. - If you haven’t tried Desktop Companion, download it here: https://speechtonote.com/desktop-companion-app. Try it free for 14 days.