A month ago I shipped a macOS dictation app built in a day. Since then: 19 releases, 70+ stars, and real users shaping the roadmap.
Lessons learned:
• The Fn key needs its own event system (Carbon won't do it)
• Sharing ML models across sandbox boundaries is tricky
• Parakeet V3 is faster than Whisper for European languages
• Ship early, iterate on real feedback
https://stormacq.com/2026/03/30/one-month-of-wispr-from-first-release-to-cli/
One Month of Wispr: From First Release to CLI
When I first wrote about building Wispr, it was a freshly minted macOS dictation app that I had built in a day and a half with Kiro. Since then, the project has taken on a life of its own. The GitHub repo crossed 70 stars, nine people forked it, and I started receiving pull requests and issues from people actually using it daily. That feedback loop has been the best part of this whole experiment.
