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Comment on Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend

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This is by far the least interesting/worst kind of project emerging lately.

"I didn't want to pay trivial money for a product, so I paid nontrivial money to have an AI make a version that's worse in every way that matters"

Who cares?

But they own this version instead of renting it. And it’s been released for free to the world.

That’s a way that the “worse” version is better to some people.

Also, assuming this person used $200/month subscription to some robot, and they used 5 days of of their quota, the money comes out about even after the first month or two, no?

Please ignore the attention-grabbing title, the novelty here is that it runs fully in the browser with local/offline models that showcase some of the new browser technologies. This is not meant to be as replacement / fully-featured product, but rather a tech demo and an argument for what "personal software" can look like in the future.

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