Anton Lebedev

ios keyboard: dictate, then just say what to change

Big news for Letterly!

We spend $200k/month on ads. This money comes entirely from revenue. We’re 100% bootstrapped. Why not just take profit now? For the first 1.5 years, Letterly grew with $0 ad spend: word of mouth + a few viral moments. It worked — but it was random. To make growth predictable, we now reinvest almost everything into paid ads. Sometimes we even lose money in month 1 — but LTV pays it back later. Small salaries. Long-term focus. Goal: millions per month, not quick profit.

The Starter Story video is back! I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who supported and helped bring attention to this. Huge thanks to @thepatwalls for navigating this so quickly. And thanks to @TeamYouTube for reviewing and resolving the issue. 🙏

An older customer complained that Letterly doesn't have phone support. 🤯 He said he'd ask his nephew, an AI professor, whether we're worth trusting. Turns out his nephew has been using Letterly for over a year!

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Vitamin or painkiller? In the beginning I wasn't sure: am I creating a vitamin or a painkiller? Many people told me it was a vitamin. But for me, it was a painkiller. And after building it, I realized -- I’m not alone! We should be careful about who we listen to.

These guys helped us grow to $100K in monthly revenue

Damn, our competitor just raised $30M. Should we raise too? 🤔

We reached $100k in monthly revenue after 1.5 years

I'm bad at writing. I'm much better at articulating my ideas in meetings or during a talk. But when it comes to sitting down and writing them out, it's tough. It's almost impossible. I get stuck in the first paragraph and rewrite it until the time is up, and I have to move on to another task without writing anything. Some time ago, I started using Letterly to write with my voice: - I talk - app transcribes - I slightly or significantly rewrite it I then use this text to read and understand how clear I am. I might talk again about some parts that are not clear enough. Then, I spend time editing and rewriting even more. But it's much easier now when I have a draft. The task has transformed from writing from scratch to editing to make it more structured. It's like having an assistant who writes and edits for you so you can further develop your thoughts. By the way, I'm writing this post with the help of voice writing.

Version 1.8.0 is packed with useful stuff!

“Why do startups fail” is the wrong question. Startups fail by default. The question is: Why do they ever survive? I read the article in one go, I highly recommend it!

A friend of mine, a great cancer researcher, intentionally doesn't use chat gpt. He believes that the tension of thought breeds interesting ideas and ai will interfere with that. I argued that you'd still have the tension, ai would just help you find answers to known questions faster and brainstorm. I couldn't convince him. We will see if his strategy is a win.

“ChatGPT will kill you” and yet we made 250k in 2024 when we were launching our ‘wrapper,’ there was a lot of skepticism that no one would use it, because it can be done with ChatGPT But if: • you’re addressing a real pain point • and dealing with high-frequency tasks sometimes clicking buttons is easier than chatting with AI.

When will Apple and Google improve their voice-to-text feature on their keyboards?

A lot has been said about the benefits of writing. But what is the most important type of writing? - Journaling - Professional (like the one used at Amazon) - Public

To create a Christmas greeting: 1. Open Letterly 2. Write about the person and your mutual events this year 3. Click one of our greeting rewrites Get the perfect greeting from your heart.