Pratik Garg

🇬🇧 | Building AI products that get out of the way.
Building @typewithlyra , writing intelligence for Mac and a voice first Math tutor

[Pratik Garg @weirdlyai]

We're bringing Lyra to more places: a Lyra keyboard, and Lyra for Windows.

Odd moment this week: I read YC's Winter 2027 requests for startups and realised Lyra fits one of them. Didn't plan that.

https://t.co/F8BNteJNzL

[Pratik Garg @weirdlyai]

Agree, examples beat adjectives. One step further: you don't have one tone. What you'd send your boss and what you'd send a teammate are different examples, so a single "my voice" sample still averages them out. I'm building Lyra, a Mac writing assistant that learns how you write to each person as you type, so you skip the pasting: https://t.co/EvPo5MLq90

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@Complex The apology is the one email where the effort is the whole message. You can outsource the grammar. You can't outsource the "I actually thought about what I did to you" part, and readers can tell instantly when it's missing.

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@nicklaunches Replies put you in front of an audience that's already warm. Posts have to earn one from scratch. Different jobs, both matter. I do get a lot of traction from replies as compared to the posts!

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@viticci Prompting a one-off app for a single trip is the real shift. Most of these won't outlive the flight, and that's fine.

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@emollick Displacement is the bit that makes sense. The people most likely to cause trouble are the ones busy all weekend in a new game.

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@ChadAppDev Which grounds does Apple actually accept for removal? Most 1-stars are fair-ish complaints rather than guideline breaches.

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@swyx What was the moment you could have known? Early on, the bag usually looks like just another good offer.

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@ChadAppDev I had my assets approved quite quickly but app versions is still taking time.

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@Bencera Agreed, and the tell is usually a deck answering questions nobody asked. Investors read over-explaining as doubt.

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@marclou Someone big must have name-dropped it. Do you know yet which post kicked it off, or is it spread across lots of small accounts?

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I am glad YC talks about writing as it was destined to be dead after Whisper Flow! We wen against the odds to build Lyra which continously trains to learn how you write and everything stays on device. We have even trained our model to write like a human being.
https://t.co/Cxb1JX96ZI

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@jakecastilloooo That's some really good information.

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Excited to see how it opens up the app development using cloud so we don't have to rely on on-device models for privacy and security.

[Pratik Garg @weirdlyai]

Lyra: a writing intelligence that fixes your text as you type in every Mac app, 100% on your Mac
Why I built it
I kept seeing the same ritual at work: write a message, reread it four times, paste it into ChatGPT, rewrite it, paste it back and send. Then repeat that throughout the day.

There was a second problem too. Most writing tools improve everything the same way. A message to your manager and a message to your best mate shouldn't sound like they were written by the same corporate assistant. I wanted something that improved my writing without replacing my personality, and without sending everything I type to someone's server.

Link: https://t.co/Q2jR3NHhgp

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https://t.co/rSpHxBUb6e

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@kentcdodds That 10% is probably the gnarly glue where explaining it to a model takes longer than just typing it.

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@theo @jullerino Speed is the feature nobody asks for and nobody can go back from. Where did the biggest gain come from?

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@GergelyOrosz Token usage measures spend, not output. Nobody would track "compiler runs per engineer" and call it productivity.

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@gregisenberg There's a stage before the arms race: sites selling agents a paid API and blocking the free route. Cheaper than fighting.