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[0.1.0] — unreleased
Initial public-readiness milestone. The product, marketing site, and cloud backend are now wired up end-to-end.
Added
- Local-first dictation. Global hotkey (default Cmd+Shift+Space) starts
- Screenshot tool. Capture-to-text flow alongside dictation for visual
- Hybrid cleanup pipeline. Configurable cleanup styles, custom
- Floating status bar. 220×44 always-on-top pill window that reflects
- Marketing site (apps/web). Next.js 16 App Router on React 19,
- Stripe billing + offline license. /billing Stripe Checkout +
- Dashboard metrics. Account page + admin-facing usage rollups
- Redesigned UI. Native-feeling Mac look — sidebar nav, settings,
- Local-first privacy contract. Cloud AI routes (/dictate,
- CI/CD scaffolding. GitHub Actions for build/test on every push,
- Fly.io infrastructure. apps/api/fly.toml for the Express API
- Operations runbook + risk register. docs/runbook.md,
audio capture; whisper.cpp transcribes on-device with Metal acceleration;
llama.cpp cleans up the text with the local model; the result is inserted
into the currently-focused Mac app, with clipboard-paste fallback.
prompts.
dictionaries, and snippets — all applied locally in production.
recording / transcribing / inserting state.
Tailwind v4, EN + DE locales, pricing, checkout, account, billing,
download, blog, features, compare, use-cases, legal pages.
webhook (checkout.session.completed) issues an HS256-signed license JWT
the desktop app stores in macOS Keychain; /license/activate,
/license/refresh, /license/status handle the lifecycle.
surfaced from the API's SQLite store.
dictionary, snippets, onboarding flow.
/transcribe, /cleanup, /dictionary, /snippets, /usage-event)
are mounted only when NODE_ENV !== "production" and
ENABLE_DEV_CLOUD_AI === "true". Production deployments cannot leak
audio/text to the cloud.
tag-driven macOS DMG release, manual Vercel web deploy.
with SQLite on a persistent volume.
docs/risk-register.md.
Known limitations
- macOS-only build target.
- DMG ships unsigned by default in CI until Apple Developer ID secrets
- API is single-instance (SQLite on one Fly volume) — see risk register.
- No Sentry, no DLQ for Stripe webhooks, no automated SQLite backup yet.
are configured.