Danny

CEO at Avora, ex-Wispr Flow, Ramp, Anduril, & Penn M&T

[Tanay Kothari @tankots]

I want to talk about a video we posted last week, the one titled "Google is coming for us."

Most of the replies fell into two categories....

1. "Wispr is a wrapper anyone could build in a weekend."

Yes, you can vibe code a version of Wispr. We encourage it, honestly. It's a fun build and you'll learn a lot. But getting from 6/10 to 9/10 is incredibly hard. Making dictation feel instant, getting names and jargon right every time, formatting a text differently in an email, editing mid sentence with just your voice, these are incredibly tough (fun) challenges. Most models cap out well before what top-tier voice dictation needs to be to deserve trusted, habitual usage. We deeply understand this problem - because it is all we have thought about for years - and recently launched Wispr Advanced Interfaces Lab to create a step change in voice quality. We see how this can be significantly better and will prove it.

2. "Wispr has gotten too hype."

This post lacked the authenticity we aim to deliver. We started building Wispr in public closely with the X community and we want to make sure we are as grounded and humble as we always have been. We will continue to have fun, be open and push the boundaries through our content, models, and product innovations.
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Going forward, we'll be releasing more benchmarks, regular product updates, challenges we face, and incorporating all the product feedback we get here back into what we're building. The future of voice is an exciting one, and we care about what you think we should do next!

[Danny @dannybessonov]

Good ‘ol GPT-4V

[Krish Shah @KrishRShah]

Love the clicky guys but I shipped this at WisprFlow in 2024

Works the same way just press fn+ctrl

[MetroNorthGuy @metro_north_guy]

might drink an irresponsible amount of caffeine and just massacre some tokens today. absolutely blow a token bag. fuck up commas of tokens. cause a crime scene. they'll need a UN inquiry the way I violate these token rights.

[Danny @dannybessonov]

congrats @raymondhechen and @tomo team on launch! glad our paths crossed from Irvine to Philly 🙌

[Justin Quan @justoutquan]

We want you to bet on yourself by chasing your goals, but Tomo wouldn’t be possible without @ChristinaPhili5 , @rkhkimx, and @BainCapVC taking a chance on us. Thank you to them along with Align, Basis Set, Conviction, Pear, Accel, & our amazing angels.

Try it at tomo [dot] ai.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Your gums may be a back door to Alzheimer's.

> gingipain antigens (toxic bacterial enzymes) found in 91–96% of postmortem Alzheimer's brains

> bacterial DNA detected in the spinal fluid of 7 out of 10 living Alzheimer's patients

> in mice: oral infection increased brain tau tangles by roughly 500% and amyloid plaques by 140%

> in 3,251 humans: 22% higher Alzheimer's risk per SD increase in gum pathogen antibodies (up to 26 year follow up)

> clinical data: a protease inhibitor slowed cognitive decline by 57% in patients with active infection

Your dentist may be your most underrated Alzheimer's doctor.

[Essam Sleiman @essamsleiman]

https://t.co/vm9v7SWBG2

[Danny @dannybessonov]

From speech to text to speech to trumpet, truly light years ahead

[Krish Shah @KrishRShah]

You can turn your laptop into a trumpet

[Nikhil Krishnan @nikillinit]

I went to the dentist recently, and it feels like an excellent place to be building a voice-native operating system

so much of the visit is the dentist saying things out loud for the dental assistant to either note down (e.g. perio charting) or asking to pull up and change certain things on the screen so we can walk through it (while stabbing me in the face and asking why I was bleeding)

In a setting where virtually everything needs to be hands-free AND dental tends to be way more small practices/owner operated, I would have expected to see more usage of scribes or voice-first tools

[Danny @dannybessonov]

@nikillinit hey! I built Wispr Flow and am now working on this exact problem at Avora (https://t.co/cAQg85z9m8)

we believe that the practice of the future runs on voice + the context from those conversations

[Raymond Chen @raymondhechen]

We're launching https://t.co/tDMhwT9iU6, the first app builder agent 🤖 that understands your data!

Bring your database (or we’ll provide one), and watch the agent automatically infer schemas to build your apps in real time 🛠️.

See more below👇

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

ShowAndTell (YC F24) builds AI agents for dental operations. Their agents partner with treatment coordinators to deliver scalable, empathetic, and personalized interactions.

Practices close more cases, and patients get the care they need.

https://t.co/2ct0GR8XdH

[Tanay Kothari @tankots]

Mom, we hit #1 🚀

Thanks @ProductHunt

[Ansh Nanda @anshnanda]

Flow is one of the 3 AI tools that I’m actually a DAU for.

The other 2 are Cursor and ChatGPT.

[Wispr Flow @WisprFlow]

Today, we’re excited to announce Wispr Flow 🚀

Just speak, and Flow writes for you, everywhere on your computer.

No BS, no waitlist. Feel the magic 👉 https://t.co/F4vDaN2MmD

[Danny @dannybessonov]

@therealRoShow @shoppietra 🔥