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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm experimenting with a new transcript layout on talat.app Left: current view - new paragraph per utterance Right: condensed view - color coded utterances Thoughts?

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote (Claude wrote) a little app I can invoke with a hotkey and type any number into, and it'll bring up GitHub issue numbers ranked by relevance and recency. Enter gives me a preview inline in the window, enter again opens the link on GitHub. Saves me a ton of time over the course of a day

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Notifications CTAs are better in the next release of talat. Today, the "Dismiss" button carries equal weight with the secondary CTA ("Stop recording" in the second shot). The danger CTA state ("Delete recording") is completely new - a glaring gap in today's notifications 🫣

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you use talat - how would you vote? In fact, why not go one better and answer directly on discord? discord.gg/EZfV9yHzXR

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We have thousands of unit and in-memory database tests on talat, but the stability of our end-to-end suite - which drives the real desktop application we ship to users - has suffered recently. Not anymore. Pleased to get this one green again 🟢

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Another talat dictation feature coming soon (built purely to scratch my own itch): refocus the *last* app you dictated into. Great when you're having e.g. an ongoing conversation with Claude and don't want to have to manually refocus your terminal to resume it

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Looking forward to shipping this one. I can't count the number of times I've absent-mindedly hit escape during a long, rambling dictation and accidentally cancelled it. The next version of talat gives you two seconds grace to undo a cancellation and pick up dictating where you left off.

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yesterday: one of our worst days ever 🔻😭 Today: our best day ever 🔺🥳 Indie life in a nutshell

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I keep filling my M4 Mac Mini's 500GB disk. It looks like a combination of this enclosure: www.amazon.co.uk/OWC-Portable... And this stick: www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Inte... Should do the job? But, especially on the storage side, the options are... somewhat overwhelming. All help appreciated 🙏

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I selfishly snuck in a new @talat.app feature purely for ME. My home office is upstairs, my wife's is downstairs, and if we're both on a call with our doors open (summer - it's hot), speech from her room could occasionally leak into my transcripts. Well, not anymore 😎

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I'm aware that the @talat.app pricing page is... awful. Each pricing tier is basically just a different way of paying for the same thing: there is no feature gating on different plans, so I can't do a classic plan vs. feature comparison table. Roasts in the thread, please 👇

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We built a tool for @talat.app where AI agents can upload screenshots with context (branch, commit, description, etc), and humans and AI can search the 'gallery' I love it. It's a durable, visual evolution of the product, and lets agents attach and 'see' screenshots on GitHub PRs

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Seriously - when did this become okay? When did we get this lazy? Over 600MB just for the download 1.4 gigabytes when installed wtf

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Just how fancy is this bloody nest going to be?

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pfft, and my wife says I'm not cool 😎

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hands up if you're happy to see those rate limits reset this morning 🙋

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Get this shit to the very TOP 🔺

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Back in March, @talat.app got hit with a Stripe chargeback - when someone disputes a charge directly with their bank. Disputes cost us money and do permanent reputational harm. As a vendor, the odds are stacked against you winning if you contest, and electing to contest costs you MORE money (1/...)

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If I had to take a shot every time I read the phrase "load-bearing", I'd be drunk every day by 7am

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

New month, new me. I promise all diffs will be like this for the entirety of July. Honest. 🫡

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

June talat highlights: - Dictation mode - File import mode - Better multilingual support, especially for non-latin and right-to-left languages - Improved capitalisation and punctuation during real-time transcription - A more capable MCP connector that writes to talat as well as reading from it

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm sure I sound like a broken record at this point, but I am enormously proud of the latest talat release. Every significant release we ship makes the last one feel obsolete. And we've already got a ton more awesome stuff lined up for the *next* release.

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

So much work went into the 0.12.x release. We're getting ever closer to the elusive 1.0.0 milestone and the end of pre-release. I can't wait!

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Final preflight checks for @talat.app 0.12.0 are underway

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Woohoo! No more bumping into ultra-conservative Claude design limits. Might not be celebrating if/when Claude Design chews through my quota faster than usual, but for now, awesome.

"Claude design now shares uage limits with Claude.ai and Claude Code."

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Oops. We don't talk about what happened there. Everything went perfectly smoothly.

a screenshot of a woeful release process

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It's no bun rewrite, but we're exploring a really exciting spike which would open up a load of new possibilities on @talat.app

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Ivan Mehta @mehtology.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Granola locked users' meeting transcripts. So a web dev with 20 years of experience built @talat.app. The app has a one-time fee of $49, uses offline models for transcription, and allows MCP connections. weekinvoiceai.substack.com/p/how-talat-built-a-local-first-stack

weekinvoiceai.substack.com

How Talat built a local-first stack for meeting notetaking

Into Talat's use of Core Audio and local LLMs to keep meeting data on-device.

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This is a good one for anyone using either of the recently added Apple or Google Calendar integrations 👇

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Really proud of the latest talat release and the redesign we shipped last week. Big thanks to everyone who fed back on the old design and helped push us to create something better, and hopefully more futureproof as we head towards version 1.0.0 and beyond.

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

ICYMI, which you probably did, because both features - which are super useful - are currently stuck behind a context menu click (we're working on this in a forthcoming release)

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Who says you don't push to production on a Friday afternoon?

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Product Of The Day! 🥇 @talat.app scoops first place on Fazier - thank you all for the support 🙇🏻‍♂️

an image showing the top three products of the day on fazier, 21/04/2026

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

We've listed @talat.app on fazier this morning - it's nosed ahead into an early lead but we could really use your support by way of an upvote as the day rolls on - registration only takes a second and it would help us out a lot 🙏 fazier.com/launches/talat

talat taking an early lead on fazier.com

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I've had no time to maintain Bluesky Boost (chromewebstore.google.com/detail/blues...) in the last year or so. Every time I nervously open it when I return to bsky web I cross my fingers it still works. Amazingly, as of right now, it still does! Note to me: give it some TLC. It's still cool.

chromewebstore.google.com

Bluesky Boost - Chrome Web Store

Bluesky Boost is a side panel extension which enhances and enriches your bsky.app experience

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

wb bsky! Yesterday was a tough day, eh?

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Almost couldn't fit the entire changelog in one screenshot this time for the v0.8.0 @talat.app release. We really do need to work on making these *smaller*, which would be better for my heart each time we do start preparing and regression testing each release! Feedback always much appreciated 👇

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We're more conservative with our release schedule on @talat.app than I'd like to be. I'd love to be releasing every day. But the risk of bricking a desktop app install is real. I received this error when trying to auto-update my favourite push-to-dictate app, FluidVoice, just now. Desktop is HARD.

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Is it just me who is hopelessly incapable of syncing their cal.com availability to reality? Every time I think I've nailed it, and added any upcoming availability exceptions, someone books the ONE slot I immediately realise I can't do. I need a cal.com to manage my cal.com

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

These small fixes make a big difference - keep an eye out for the 0.7.1 @talat.app update folks

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Delighted to get this one out in the wild! The diff from 0.5.1 to 0.60 is ridiculous - it's way too big, making the release a little more scary than it needed to be, but I'm relieved we got there and excited to get it into the hands of our early adopters. Check it out at talat.app

a chanloge between two versions of talat.app showing 259 commits and 286 files changed

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

We've been really busy with @talat.app, so I've dropped the ball on updates here. We released a small fix yesterday (talat.app/changelog) and we have some awesome stuff brewing for the next release. We've also got a better way of leaving feedback / seeing what's coming up: roadmap.talat.app

roadmap.talat.app

Meeting notes that don’t leave your Mac

Vote or request new talat features. Subscribe to get updates about new features from talat.

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Nothing grounds you like having kids. It was a wild 24 hours or so after the @techcrunch.com feature. An awesome, amazing, stressful, wonderful day. Completely immersed in tech and talat. And then, while I was winding him down for bed, my son took a dump in the bath 💩

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Nick Payne @makeusabrew.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

We ran @talat.app on both Uneed and Product Hunt yesterday. #4 on the latter (so close to a 🥉), #10 on the latter. Hard not to feel a little disappointed with both, but we did sneak into the PH letter by the skin of our teeth! www.producthunt.com/newsletters/...

producthunt.com

😸 Give your repo superpowers | Product Hunt

gm legends, happy Friday. GitAgent wants your agent stack living where it probably should have lived all along, in Git, Room Service is for the very sp

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