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Hi! Yes, the premium voices are Kokoro. I’m only exposing the English voices right now because the rest of the pipeline around them is English-first and custom, especially pronunciation/G2P, QA, and timestamp awareness. I’d like to expand that over time, but I don’t want to overpromise multilingual support before the surrounding stack is ready. So I'm taking it one language at a time based on demand and feedback.

AI summaries are currently generated remote, not local. Those currently leverage gpt-4o-mini. TTS and OCR are on-device and summarization is the cloud-backed feature.

I like this approach and that it's so flexible and approachable. My nit for the site would be to explain it a bit better - it's a bit hard to grok with everything going on until I went to the repo. There's also opportunity for non-tech users here just using the agent skill but I'm not sure they'll understand the use if they read through the site.

I had made a skill for something similar to use just HTML5, Canvas and JavaScript, and export the video to MP4 (https://github.com/siegerts/skill-canvas-video).

Agree. I keep effort max on Claude and xhigh on GPT for all tasks and keep tasks as scoped units of work instead of boil the ocean type prompts. It is hard to measure but ultimately the tasks are getting completed and I'm validating so I consider it "working as expected".

I enjoy switching back and forth and having multi-agent reviews. I'm enjoying Codex also but having options is the real win.

Part 2 of 3 in the Java Performance Optimization series.

Also, just created an agent skill to help with finding/exporting the data:

`npx skills add siegerts/agent-transcript`

https://github.com/siegerts/agent-transcript

dev here: Feel free to ask any questions! This is updated functionality to the Add to Sheets Chrome extension. Now, it's possible to use keyboard shortcuts _or_ the regular right-click and select Sheets destination.

He said that that he picks the names of the projects by randomly picking locations from a map.

Universal shadcn/ui for React Native featuring a focused collection of components - Crafted with NativeWind v4 and accessibility in mind.

(dev here) Thanks for the feedback. We choose circle to remain consistent with other todo applications (Todoist, iOS Reminders, etc). Semantically, these aren't selection boxes or choices per se. They are to indicate a completion action outside of the scope of a form element.

(dev here) Thanks for the feedback! Most of this is related to sustainability of the platform as a whole. When we originally posted on HN, that was the number one theme - future proofing the platform for users (this also included the subscription aspect) since the majority of the app hadn't gone through any major updates since the initial launch (~3.5 yrs ago). This was just to remain transparent in where we have been focusing our energy.

dev here: feel free to ask any questions!

dev here: feel free to ask any questions!

Thanks! Yeah, I wanted to keep it specific for GitHub but can see how the base functionality can be used for something more generic. On each page match hit for a signed in user, the API is checked to see if the user has notes - if the matching were expanded beyond GitHub, then that would need to be taken into account to reduce ‘ping’ requests that check if notes exist.

dev here: feel free to ask any questions!

dev here: feel free to ask any questions!

(dev here) Are you thinking to bypass GSheets altogether? Or, go Sheets -> another integration.

(dev here) Completely understand the concern. This uses an embedded Google File picker to allow you to select what Sheets to allow access to. Until you do that, the extension doesn't have r/w access. The integration with Google (OAuth) has been verified and gone through their review process to only request/use minimal perms for the extension to function as expected.

https://www.addtosheets.com/blog/how-to-save-data-to-google-...

Thank you! The goal is to save time and reduce the back and forth of finding tabs - hopefully this helps solve some of that.

dev here: feel free to ask any questions!

(dev here)

Something I've done different for this extension that I haven't done in the past:

- had an email waitlist that got some interest for months leading up to the actual release

- engaged with potential users in community channels (reddit/discord(s)/etc) to get early feedback and keep them in the loop

- have buttons in the profile dropdown menu within the extension for "Provide feedback" and "Leave a review"

All of these have made a big different, in general, to the overall process. I started doing this months before the extension was published.

Happy to answer any questions.

This great feedback - thank you. I like the idea of the TTL. That's interesting if we continue on the current route. Similar to the "open start up" concept and publishing available runway, etc.

(cofounder)

Thanks and glad to hear! Our main goal was to _not_ try to make it "everything" and while still making it enjoyable to use. We'd appreciate any feedback once you do some testing.

Send over to lowercasehq@gmail.com or ping us on X @lowercase_app.

Thanks! So we actually started with offline first originally (a standalone desktop app) and then rebuilt for the web. We had plans to revisit based on interest, etc. so it's good to get the feedback here and use that to shape the direction.

(cofounder here)

Thanks for the feedback! We have some ideas, and to be honest, the feedback here has been great to firm up some of our assumptions.

I'd like to follow up on this if you're interested. Feel free to email (lowercasehq@gmail.com).

Thank you for the suggestion!

Thanks for the feedback. One reason for the username is for cleaner profiles when publishing - https://learn.lowercase.app/publishing/documents.html#adding...

Thank you for the feedback! This route is definitely something for us to consider.

This is something that we've discussed quite a bit and not completely off the table.

(co-founder) Sry about that - if you want to email lowercasehq@gmail.com I can remove and confirm for you.