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jmcintire1

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    Comment #43640635

    Imo it is a question of right tool for the right job, adjusted for differences between people. For me, the use case that made our product click was prompting Cursor while coding. T…

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    Comment #43640415

    fair point. offline+local would be ideal, but as it stands we can't run asr and an llm locally at the speed that is required to provide the level of service we want to. given that …

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    Comment #43638125

    This use case is great, even for people who haven't been interested in dictation before

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    Comment #39911058

    Hi! I'm so sorry about that. Will you send me an email (jack@withaqua.com) and we will sort it out! (we'll also fix the support button)

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    Comment #39844030

    Absolutely, and sorry for the UX annoyances. We'll add a way to quickly share this kind of thing from within the app.

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    Comment #39843999

    Great recommendation, thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #39836188

    100%. This day will come!

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    Comment #39836185

    We have thought about this: there are some boring reasons that it doesn't make sense to do right now but I would definitely be interested in learning about your use case and keepin…

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    Comment #39836179

    Thank you for trying it! Our goal is to make it not just a suitable alternative but way better than your keyboard. Still a lot of work to do, but that is the fun part :)

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    Comment #39836142

    Thanks Eliot! Let us know how we can make it better for you!

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    Comment #39836128

    Hah! Excellent question. Somewhere in between (i.e. it is not a p1 right now but "months" is way too long). Give us til after demo day then one of us will sit down and knock it out…

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    Comment #39836092

    Thanks Merik! "It does what it says " is honestly my favorite feedback... 1. Good call on demo page, would be slick to sync that up with account. 2. Subscription exhaustion is a re…

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    Comment #39836076

    I understand the feeling :) great to hear!

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    Comment #39836074

    100% agree on speed — there's lots we can and will do to improve that also good point on memory. this turns out to be relevant in a lot of cases!

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    Comment #39833911

    This is fixed!

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    Comment #39832684

    that's a better way to put it!

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    Comment #39832488

    Patching this now!

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    Comment #39831419

    Thanks for the feedback! On the last point, you can't see it in the sandbox, but the app has a Strict mode that does what you're looking for

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    Comment #39831200

    I'm getting married in Scotland in December and will presumably want to be able to demo so you can bank on priority support and a hard deadline :)

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    Comment #39831053

    Hey! Right now our focus is getting the core tech solid and we can do that much faster if we aren't juggling multiple platforms and plugins (we learned this the hard way), but afte…

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    Comment #39831017

    Thank you, awesome to see how many ideas this inspired! We've thought about a lot of similar things ourselves and will certainly build some of them :) Sorry about the error you are…

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    Comment #39830961

    Thank you! We love hearing stories like this. We want to get Aqua into as many places as possible — and will go full tilt into that as soon as the core is extremely extremely solid…

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    Comment #39829857

    Thank you! And yes, the app has a Background mode which is designed for this use case exactly

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    Comment #39829703

    should be fixed.