“I don't wanna pay a bunch of money for it, and the $20 plans run out real fast.”
Kirill Klimuk, on news.ycombinator.com ↗
A local AI assistant for Mac running Qwen 3.5 in-process. Free, private, and it doesn't run out at 3pm like the $20 plans do.
Otter charges $16.99 a month to send your calls to its servers. Parrot transcribes them on your own Mac, no bot in the meeting, for nothing.
“I got tired of paying for services like Otter.ai that send all my conversations to some server I don't control.”
Wispr Flow charges $15 a month to hear you think out loud. Spokesman hears it on-device, for nothing.
“I built it because I wanted something like Wispr Flow, but that's a subscription and your voice goes to the cloud.”
Termius wants ten dollars a month to sync your server list. tern syncs it to a Git repo you own, in a native Mac app that fits in 76 MB.
“and termius wants paid plan just to sync the vault.”
Built something because a company wanted your credit card for a feature that fits in a single file? That's spiteware. Submit it and join the hall of fame.