Subscriptions Are About to Die

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Some people are paying over $200 a year just for transcription, and I'm building the same thing as a one time five dollar app that you keep forever. I tried to solve this problem myself as a YouTuber because I needed transcriptions done, and I spent so much time figuring it out and got it working really well and really fast, and back then all of that work had to go into servers to make it happen at scale. Local models are good enough now that the whole thing just runs on your device, so I'm taking everything I learned with local AI and putting it into an app, and it's one flat price, no subscription, yours forever, and you still get the updates. Tell me what features you'd want in it, I'm reading every comment. I spent 12 years as an engineer at Apple, and now I build apps live on stream with AI tools and share the whole process as I go. Join the free community where we're all building together: https://rfer.me/startmyai (The AI Builder Club, my small live cohort, opens a few times a year, and you'll hear about it first inside the community.) Chapters 00:00 Nobody Loves Being Charged a Subscription 00:27 I Needed My Transcriptions Done 00:51 Put It in an App and Keep It Forever 01:12 You Compare Yourself to What's Already Out There 01:39 The Price of a Coffee 02:04 What Would You Want in It

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Makers residency 4th edition

Your idea can be anything. At our last workshops, people built plant-based nutrition businesses, a way to measure planetary resilience, crochet headwear and a way to connect lonely people living in the same building. An asset manager went on to raise an additional £25M on their fund within nine months. The fourth workshop is a full day at KOKO with Nick Sarafa, learning to build with Claude Code. Bring the thing you keep meaning to start. We’ll bring the pizza.

◆ Fri 13 Nov 2026 ◆ KOKO, London
Makers residency 4th edition
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