Naveen Naidu

Monologue launches iOS app with context-aware speech-to-text that cleans up transcription errors, handles accents better than Apple's dictation, and adapts tone across messaging, email, and notes applications.

“Author of "Introducing Monologue for iOS" in Every”

Launch day metrics lie—true product validation emerges on day two when measuring genuine user retention and repeated engagement rather than initial interest.

“Author of "Launch Day Lies—Day Two Tells the Truth" in Every - Source Code”

Kairos, an AI-powered reading companion, enables fundamentally new ways to read by integrating AI directly into the reading experience, allowing readers to actively probe and discuss texts rather than passively consume them.

“Author of "A New Way to Read" in Every”

OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Codex and Anthropic's Opus 4.6 are converging toward an ideal coding and work agent, with both models adopting complementary strengths in speed, reliability, creativity, and autonomous execution.

“Was stunned when Opus 4.6 built a feature for their iOS app that the team had been working on for two months.”

Anthropic's Claude Code with Opus 4.5 has rapidly displaced OpenAI's Codex as the preferred coding tool among startup founders, signaling a shift in market leadership driven by superior product design rather than marketing.

“Still prefers OpenAI's Codex over Claude Code as his daily driver coding tool.”

Anthropic's new cloud and mobile version of Claude Code shows promise but is not yet ready for daily use, lacking features like inline code diffs and seamless task transition between devices.

“Uses Codex on the web to handle small papercut bug fixes.”

Every has launched Monologue, an AI voice dictation app for Mac that understands user vocabulary and style to enable 3x faster writing without interrupting workflow.

“Built Monologue, an AI voice dictation app for Mac, in a single weekend to create a better voice dictation solution that writes the way users talk.”

Monologue, an AI voice dictation app, achieved product-market fit with thousands of users during beta by building community before launch, contrary to traditional app development approaches.

“Built Monologue, an AI voice dictation app for Mac that gained thousands of users before launch as the single engineer behind the viral app.”