Ben Butterworth

Building PRE-AI: 6.5 million views on Stack Overflow

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

London has loads of hackathons for B2B SaaS and AI agents.

We need more people building practical tech for defence, emergency response, public safety and humanitarian work.

Frontline London Hackathon 2026. 15 August.

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

Details + applications: https://t.co/WxXhu4SXGx

Prizes:
🥇 1 year of Claude Pro
🥈 6 months
🥉 3 months

We’re gonna run more hackathons in 2026 and beyond. If you care about this space, say hi.

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

London has loads of hackathons for B2B SaaS and AI agents.

We need more people building practical tech for defence, emergency response, public safety and humanitarian work.

Frontline London Hackathon 2026. 15 August.

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

@ShoaibMKhan What a waste of police resources and a man of such high importance, Sir Porritt

[Granola @meetgranola]

well that was fun!

you've been amazing SF, thanks for playing 🫡

huge congrats to the winners 👏

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

@meetgranola Never have I run so hard 🤭, granola strap is good motivation

[Granola @meetgranola]

congrats, @uxduck!!

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

@meetgranola Another post 🤭. Found it — here’s the wider view 👀
#GranolaHuntContest

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

@meetgranola This next minute is going really slowly, 12.30!

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

@meetgranola Another post 🤭. Found it — here’s the wider view 👀
#GranolaHuntContest

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

@meetgranola Found it — here’s the wider view 👀
#GranolaHuntContest

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

@yongfook Wait for the DJI mic 2S, it has on board storage, or get the DJI mic 3 if in a rush. Useful for voice recordings on the go (running, cycling), and you can transcribe when you get back

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

@max4c_ @dannypostma @getducktype has an auto dictate mode. Whenever it detects speech with a VAD, it will transcribe your words. Say "enter" to also hit enter. Say "run AI" to ask AI to edit it or read it.

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

@benln The best company for former founders to join don't exist yet... because they will create them?

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

@hthieblot It's your data

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

@kseniam0s I use DuckType for dictation and meetings. I can export my old Granola meetings into Markdown notes for free. And it doesn't capture my screen when dictating like Wispr Flow.

@getducktype. It's completely free. You can bring your own API key.

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

To my friends that don't use AI dictation apps because their accent isn't accurately transcribed, try the new @OpenAI GPT Transcribe model released today! Switch between languages in the same dictation, speak in noisy environments, and more.

Available for free in @getducktype if you bring your own API key. Thank you @fooming86 for the feature request and sharing the @OpenAIDevs post.

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

@dremnik @knowfromadam It's really not the same thing - you're mac only, and don't do AI summaries or AI chat? If you want something closer to Granola but free, try @getducktype

[Ben Butterworth @uxduck]

"grow at all costs" companies have incentives to screw the user. I heard a founder tell me a couple days ago, "screw privacy, we need to track the user so we can understand them better". I built Wispr Flow and Granola into 1 app that's free, and even exports your old Granola notes