Sam Asante

CEO & Founder. Investing in AI. Product Designer. Software Engineer. 20+ Years Experience. Building @TypeaheadAI. Psalm 23

[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

I'm building a new company with @hnshah.

Today we're launching our first product. It's called Typeahead.

Autocomplete for everything you write on your Mac. You type, suggestions appear inline right at your cursor and you hit Tab to accept. It picks up how you actually write.

It runs on a local model, so it works offline and your writing never leaves your device. One time purchase, free updates for life.

If you write a lot on a Mac, check it out. Live on Product Hunt today ⌨️

[Google Gemma @googlegemma]

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A unified, encoder-free multimodal model designed to bring high-performance intelligence directly to your laptop, and released under an Apache 2.0 license.

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[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

@JustJerry121 @hnshah @TypeaheadAI It counts at accept-time and it separates what you typed yourself from what Typeahead wrote (so no over-counting!)

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

If you know me, you know I love data and analytics.

So, I couldn’t resist this one.

Coming very soon to @TypeaheadAI…

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

@SamAsante Here’s how the new Display tab works. It’s fun to tinker with and create your own Typeahead style. https://t.co/AYeHYrj9xZ

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

We just shipped Typeahead Version 1.5.0:

Typeahead is autocomplete for everyone, so now you can make suggestions look exactly the way you need them to.

- Make suggestions easier to see. A new Display tab in Settings lets you turn up the opacity, switch on bolder text, or give the ghost text its own color. Perfect if the default is too subtle to read comfortably.

- Colors that work for color blindness. Pick from a palette chosen to stay distinct for common types of color vision, or choose any custom color. A live preview shows how it looks on both light and dark fields, with a gentle heads-up when a color would be hard to see.

- It respects your Mac's accessibility settings, too. Increase Contrast and Reduce Transparency are honored automatically.

[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

@dansanmedina @hnshah I'd actually call it a big step forward! The goal is to make typing so fast and frictionless it beats reaching for dictation.

Voice only works when you can talk out loud, but most writing still happens by typing, and that's what we're making effortless.

[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

I'm building a new company with @hnshah.

Today we're launching our first product. It's called Typeahead.

Autocomplete for everything you write on your Mac. You type, suggestions appear inline right at your cursor and you hit Tab to accept. It picks up how you actually write.

It runs on a local model, so it works offline and your writing never leaves your device. One time purchase, free updates for life.

If you write a lot on a Mac, check it out. Live on Product Hunt today ⌨️

[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

I'm building a new company with @hnshah.

Today we're launching our first product. It's called Typeahead.

Autocomplete for everything you write on your Mac. You type, suggestions appear inline right at your cursor and you hit Tab to accept. It picks up how you actually write.

It runs on a local model, so it works offline and your writing never leaves your device. One time purchase, free updates for life.

If you write a lot on a Mac, check it out. Live on Product Hunt today ⌨️

[mohammad @mohammadonx]

great example of an actual privacy-first ai tool, excited for more things like this

[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

@RushRicketson @hnshah @TypeaheadAI 💯

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

Every AI product makes a quiet decision about where the work happens.

For Typeahead, that decision mattered more than usual.

A writing tool sits between thought and record.

It sees the sentence before it is ready to defend itself.

A customer reply can carry names, history, tone, obligations, and context that belongs to the customer.

Hiring notes often begin as a first reaction that deserves a second read.

Investor updates have numbers still settling.

Legal thoughts need careful language before they become advice.

A Slack message can take three rewrites because one word changes the relationship.

That is the private workshop where writing gets made.

Messy. Tentative. Personal. Yours.

If a Mac can run the model locally, the draft should not travel by habit.

So Typeahead keeps the work on the machine.

Suggestions are generated on your Mac. The app ships without telemetry, analytics, anonymous tracking, or account requirements. After activation, it works offline.

That is the privacy model.

It is also the product philosophy.

Good software should ask for the minimum required to do the job well.

Typeahead has a focused job.

Help you finish the small sentences you write all day, across the apps where writing already happens.

Ghost text appears in the field.

Tab accepts the suggestion.

Right arrow takes one word.

Esc dismisses it.

The sentence stays where it began.

The writer stays in charge.

That same philosophy shaped the pricing.

$79 once.

If the core value can live on the computer you already bought, renting it back to you every month felt like the wrong relationship.

We wanted Typeahead to feel like a tool.

It earns its place through daily use and disappears the rest of the time.

Owned once.

Private by architecture.

Built for the messy, unfinished, very human work that happens before writing is ready to share.

We’re live on Product Hunt today.

If you write a lot on a Mac, I’d love for you to check it out.

https://t.co/dsYXHKWvF5

[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

Here are some launch graphics I made for @TypeaheadAI

Live on Product Hunt now: https://t.co/RPXDAH4BPY

[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

What do you think of these Product Hunt launch graphics for @TypeaheadAI?

Live now: https://t.co/RPXDAH4BPY

[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

I've been working on an app that helps you type faster with AI 😃

Live on Product Hunt right now!

https://t.co/thcz6Q3M6V

[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

Here it is! Any support or feedback today would mean a lot 🙏

https://t.co/PjT5OVxTeY

Follow @TypeaheadAI for what's next.

[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

Would love to hear your thoughts on a new product I've been working on to help you type faster with AI 😃

Live on Product Hunt right now!

https://t.co/thcz6Q3M6V

[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

Here it is! Any support or feedback today would mean a lot 🙏

https://t.co/PjT5OVxTeY

Follow @TypeaheadAI for what's next.

[Jonno Riekwel 🇳🇱 🇳🇿 @Jonnotie]

Check out what my buddy is making. It’s been super useful for me so far.

[Sam Asante @SamAsante]

@shelliefitz @hnshah Perfect way to put it! Still you doing the walking, just a lot faster. So glad you're in 😃

[Pratyush Rai @pratyush_r8]

This represents the best of the software engineering world.

Useful, privacy first, one time purchase products. Sold at a dirt low price.

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

I should also mention that this tool is safe for work.

None of your data leaves your computer at all. There is no analytics or telemetry tracking, anonymous or otherwise.

Live on Product Hunt now. Would love your support: https://t.co/yqxL1MvlMW

[Typeahead @TypeaheadAI]

Autocomplete for everything you write on your Mac.

Typeahead finishes your sentences inline and runs 100% locally so your words never leave your device.