Henrique · indie app builder

Solo dev from Brazil building apps.
Now: Listener — records, transcribes & summarizes meetings on Mac, 100% on-device. $5 once.
Building in public.

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

I got tired of paying $20/mo for meeting recorders that upload everything to the cloud. So I built Listener for Mac: records, transcribes live, editable summary. 100% on-device. $5 once, no subscription. https://t.co/gaBhr5Uzqr

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

that 2011 siri ad is going around again. flat tire, reminders, weather, one smooth chat

15 years later the small stuff works. ask for anything real and it's still web results

meanwhile apple's on-device model on my mac does decent summaries. the gap is siri, not the chip

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

@KenseiReinhardt why doesn't he send me some too lol

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

elorian just shipped glimpse. a visual model that zooms in or pulls video frames while it thinks, instead of turning the image into text once

small team, a few hundred gpus, post-trained on open weights. frontier labs set the bar, open weights let small teams build on it

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

@sudomateo the always listening part is a big one once you get used to just talking back and forth saying hey siri every time feels like going back

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

@Madrobot_ sms parsing is such a good fit for a small on-device model. short input, fixed shape output. and bank sms is exactly the data nobody wants sitting in a cloud

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

@builtbyamrit apple's foundation model, the one built into macos 26. no download, already on every mac

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

deepseek shipped v4.1 flash 1017 today. 77.0 on deepswe for under $0.20 a task, open weights on hugging face.

the "flash" one is 763b params. best part for me is the shorter outputs. same task, fewer tokens. that helps at every size, even the tiny on-device models i build on.

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

@Xjohannesh holding up well so far, that was the main thing i built around

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

iphone duo pre-orders opened today. foldable, starts at $1999, siri ai with apple intelligence on a 7.6" inner screen.

everyone's talking about the hinge. i'm watching how personal the on-device ai gets when the screen is that big — keep siri open next to an app, ask about what's on it, and that context doesn't need to leave the phone.

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

@168888888888888 yep, identity is everything there. that's exactly what i'm checking it on

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

gemini 4 argon just landed in antigravity for ai pro, with its own weekly quota.

spending tonight on the next version of my mac app with it. real test for me is swift, most models still get swiftui state wrong. will report back.

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

@not_sacke @observable @StateObject @published good call, adding that to the list. giving it a real task tonight. which model have you ended up trusting most for swift?

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

yeah the memory is the wall, a quant on a mac studio is probably the most realistic. on my side it's way smaller: apple's on-device speech model plus the apple foundation model in macos 26. i use them for a mac app that transcribes and summarizes meetings without anything leaving the machine

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

@vikasai_x same. what are you running it on? i build on small on-device models on the mac, so i'm curious how people fit a 501b moe locally

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

reflection dropped beam 1.0 today. 501b params, 23b active, 1m context, apache 2.0, weights on hugging face.

not running on my macbook anytime soon. but a frontier-scale model you can own and fine-tune, with a license that doesn't fight you, is a big deal.

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

@Nanjialonguazt not yet haha, $1999 is a lot for a solo dev. for now i'm building on apple's on-device models on the mac, same bet, smaller screen

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

listener now has a free trial. 3 meetings, no account, no card. it records, transcribes and summarizes on your mac, nothing leaves the machine. if it's useful, $5 once unlocks it forever.

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

meta dropped muse spark open today — 816b open weights that run on two m5 ultra mac studios with mlx.

frontier-class models living on a desk used to sound like a stretch. now it's just a setup guide.

[Henrique · indie app builder @henriquebuilds]

@4amlessons @chanduuu_cs same. the only part i ever reread is what got decided and who's doing what. everything else is noise