Maxi Lieven

17yo Builder | Founder of @TapTalkOfficial

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore.

You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

I’m in 11th grade and I literally have to learn JavaScript for my computer science exam tomorrow. In the big 2026. 🤣
Ts is lowkey not hard but the school system is so fucking behind

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@krspy291 you could try TapTalk if you’re on Mac. I built it as a simple local voice input app, so transcription doesn’t depend on Wispr/cloud reliability. curious if it works better with your headphones: https://t.co/pkfloJT9Tu

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@joshearle @WisprFlow I built TapTalk after getting frustrated with reliability too. It’s a simple Mac voice input app where transcription runs locally, so it doesn’t depend on a cloud service being up: https://t.co/pkfloJT9Tu

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@pyus13 @WisprFlow I built TapTalk around exactly this concern: voice transcription runs locally on Mac, so your private voice data doesn’t need to be sent to a server. iOS app is coming soon too: https://t.co/pkfloJT9Tu

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@xadisingh @aradotso How do u make those product videos, they look great

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@pkaura @WisprFlow Okay, appreciate you. Even that is good feedback, thanks a lot

Imma work on benchmarking TapTalk. Do you have experience in this?

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@theayush @WisprFlow Yes it does. The feature is called Refine. Select text, dictate your changes and it what u said will be taken as input prompt to the model and you will get the text out. Speed is same as Wispr or even a bit quicker because we don't do after processing on every dictation

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@thkostolansky @aquavoice @WisprFlow its only about 500MB so it should fit and runs quite. well on all apple silicon chips

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@thkostolansky @aquavoice @WisprFlow Yes I see your point but until now I have not figured out on how I can do them properly so everything is compared equal because it realy depends on your computer becuase its not in the cloud

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@salmanneedsajob @WisprFlow I built TapTalk for simple local voice input on Mac, so the transcription step doesn’t depend on a cloud service. might be worth trying: https://t.co/pkfloJT9Tu

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@thkostolansky @aquavoice @WisprFlow By deafult TapTalk doesnt have this on every dictation but I have a feature called refine where you can give your text to local model and then it outputs whatever you wanted it to do

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@thkostolansky @aquavoice @WisprFlow Have not made "official" benchmarks yet but for me it feels kinda accurate and if you have words it doesnt get u can put them into dictionary. What do you mean by customization? Like ouput style?

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@iamvinayaknair @JeevanshuN Im one of that hahah. U wanna try https://t.co/pkfloJT9Tu? It also has some more features than just dictaiton and doesnt feel crapy like all these other vibecoded alternatives

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@salmanneedsajob @WisprFlow yeah this is why I wanted something local. I built TapTalk as a simple Mac voice input app that doesn’t depend on a cloud service being up. might be worth trying: https://t.co/pkfloJT9Tu

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@tavlean @WisprFlow misinterpreting words kills the whole point of voice input. if Wispr feels unusable for you right now, you might try TapTalk. I built it as a local Mac voice input app because I wanted something simple and reliable: https://t.co/pkfloJT9Tu

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@thkostolansky @aquavoice @WisprFlow Ohh fergot to mention compared to wispr its local so no data gets send to the cloud, superwispr has local models too

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@thkostolansky @aquavoice @WisprFlow I would say, they are about the same speed with wispr or superwispr. The main difference in my opition is that I put a lot of effort in ui/ux and it also has some more features than just dictation that can be usefull. In addition its way cheaper

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@johnowolabi_ @TonioRenteria @WisprFlow Im building taptalk, which is 100% local and 5x cheaper while maintaining same quality and better uptime. If u wanna give it a try: https://t.co/pkfloJT9Tu

[Maxi Lieven @maxilvn]

@johnowolabi_ @TonioRenteria @WisprFlow Comparing Wispr 15/month to Codex 20/month, the value difference is not even discussable