Christian | 1x Husband | 5x Dad | Building private AI tools that work offline @TryYaps
Joined October 2020
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Apr 20
Today I'm launching @TryYaps on Android - a voice-first keyboard I've been rebuilding from the ground up!
Ships with everything you'd expect from a modern keyboard - swipe typing, smart suggestions, autocorrect, emoji, GIFs, multi-language, light/dark themes, the whole familiar toolkit. If you're coming from Gboard, nothing to relearn.
But the reason it exists is one shortcut away. Dictation that's genuinely 4Γ faster than typing.
It also comes with some robust note taking features. A reading mode that narrates any text aloud. It also cleans up rambling drafts into something send-ready. Every one of those running on-device - no cloud, no listening, no account needed to get started.
I kept wondering why no one had just built voice INTO the keyboard itself. The answer is simple, it's tough to do well π
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Either way I built it, and will keep improving it. Feels a bit unreal to be shipping a full-stack keyboard as one person but it was fun and a necessary first step for a much broader suite of tools.
If you've ever want to just yap the thing instead of typing it out - link in the comments.
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How people consistently post on X and build at the same time is beyond me, I'm not sure it's possible to do well π
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Jun 11
Not even halfway through the year and I've committed more work than in any other year prior π₯²
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Jun 10
Exponential curve incoming! π
May 11
Slowly but surely, SEO improving for yaps.ai now, getting more than 1 click per day.
Sharing for consistency but turns out Google isn't my best search engine at all!
Expecting big upticks over the next couple months.
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Jun 8
Okay I'm gonna be quite contrarian here:
1. I still use bypass permissions - I'm wild, sue me. π
2. I agree with this. I'm all for efficiency. I used to ask explictly, regularly.
3. Rarely useful, in my opinion. Models lack product sense, taste, and lose the plot over time. Oftentimes things go off the rails in ways that make me not want to even redeem it. There are things I loop over. Or I have cron jobs for specifically. I don't think we're at the point where I can stop prompting for product related stuff. Maybe this is less of an issue when tokens are infinite.
4. Cloud is useful. And so is triggering stuff from mobile. No complaints, here.
5. For a lot of my stuff, it's not necessarily viable. Not everything can be verified as easily/accurately. Even with simulators, etc. I can revisit this - but I'm quite sure there's a limit.
Jun 8
Seeing a number of benchmarks showing Opus is the best model for long-running work.
Five tips for running Opus autonomously for hours/days:
1. Use auto mode for permissions, so Claude doesnβt ask for approval
2. Use dynamic workflows, to have Claude orchestrate hundreds/thousands of agents to get a task done
3. Use /goal or /loop, to nudge Claude to keep going until itβs done
4. Use Claude Code in the cloud, so you can close your laptop (easiest way is the desktop or mobile app)
5. Make sure Claude has a way to self-verify its work end to end: Claude in Chrome browser extension for web, iOS/Android sim MCP for mobile, a way to start the full web server or service for backend work
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Jun 8
I've recently gained a lot more traction on mobile. So now I'm shifting my focus to desktop. Most recent updates:
- Better voice typing experience - latency, corrections, formatting, noise handling and accuracy.
- Image support in notes.
- Light mode/Dark mode.
- Reveal in finder/explorer context menu for notes.
- Improved onboarding flow.
- Context menu in the top toolbar.
- Collapsable sidebars.
- Tab re-ordering.
- Note tag suggestions.
- CLI MCP updates.
- Bug fixes.
Try it out at yaps.ai
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Jun 8
Everyone who says "writing code was never the bottleneck", never wrote code prior to AI.
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Jun 6
Ramping up marketing, videos, socials, Reddit, driving traffic, espcially since the android product is very mature now, the desktop app is being hardended, windows is coming soon and iOS shortly after.
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Jun 5
Interesting thread, soon this stuff will be weird to read when we're all obsolete and doing brick and mortar work. π
Jun 4
Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI developmentβa possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor.
Itβs happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. anthropic.com/institute/recuβ¦
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Jun 2
Opened up whatsapp desktop to see this. Meta moving company comms to r/vibecoding π
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May 31
Encouraging, daunting, disgusting and inspiring all at once π
π I made $364,016.89 in May 2026
β‘οΈ Indexsy β $146,021
π LocalRank .so Trackings .ai IndexChex .com RankTack .com β $60,901.14
π» Version .so β $35,849
π¦ Amazon β $31,163.19
π’ STR Lisbon β $30,287.54
π Advise .so β $20,602.08
π° 0f β $19,991.30
π Misc. Aff β $12,647.11
πΊ Mediavine β $2,676.81
π Bonds β $1,800
πΈ Binance β $1,529.47
π Revive .so β $548.00
π Revenue was up 17.30% ($53.6k) from April, biggest month since March 2024.
Indexsy had an absolute monster month at $146k, a new all-time high.
Amazon and STR Lisbon held strong with back-to-back $30k months, and Misc. Aff spiked to $12.6k.
SaaS cluster pulled back to $60.9k as Trackings and LocalRank cooled off, but IndexChex held everything up.
I have been tracking my revenue since January 2022.
If you want to see the full historical revenue, comment "JIMMY" like this post and I will DM it to you (must be following).
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May 25
Started posting on reddit and launched a community last week:
reddit.com/r/YapsAI/
I think it's working!
AMA
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May 23
My brother told me about Polsia at about 800k ARR, I tried it at $1.2m ARR. It's clearly still an MVP, and I doubt many successful undifferentiated startups have emerged from this, but the prospects of what it's offering and the level of buy-in is clearly nothing to laugh at.
Happy for @Bencera regardless, and he's clearly a nice guy, taking out time to respond to near every single message, retweet, etc. Hope things improve from here. Him winning is big for the entire 1-man company mantra. I'm here for it.
Polsia just raised $30M at a $250M valuation.
Approaching $10M annual run rate.
One Founder AI. Zero employees.
Polsia runs companies autonomously.
It also ran its own fundraising.
I just showed up for signatures.
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May 23
Re-subscribing to @cursor_ai to gauge what composer excels / flops at vs Codex and Claude.
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May 21
Imagine getting caught in 4k by the app you cloned
May 20
Congrats brother
Just a heads up
you forgot to remove prayer lock
from your onboarding
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May 19
Babe wake up, there's been a plot twist π
May 19
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
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May 19
I got my first paid subscriber on @TryYaps Android! πππ
A lot of work for a single sale but we'll take it! Some of the biggest learnings so far:
- Reddit is a goldmine - it's gone from intimidating to my favourite platform haha!
- Speak to users, build what they want, 100 heads are better than 1.
- Things move slower than you plan.
- Well distributed > Great product
- Everyone will say its too expensive, nobody will say it's too cheap
- X is noisy as hell, but the real signal peddlers are usually small - mid, giving the best gems away as they try to grow their distribution engine.
- If you build in public / open source, it's never been easier to get your idea ripped, so speed and distribution matter.
- Large total addressable markets mean that you can win big solo even if there's big competition.
- There are still complex projects out there (arbitrage for engineers and deep thinkers), but nothing complex for AI eventually.
- All this work for 0->$20 MRR was long. $20->$100 will be much easier.
- Think big. If I can sell to 1, I can sell to 5. If I can sell to 5 I can sell to 100. If I can sell to 100 I can sell to 2000. etc.
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