Six months ago, I needed something to help me on calls where I freeze up. Sales calls, client escalations, interviews. So I built it. The technical part was actually the easy piece for me.
Speech recognition runs entirely on the user's machine, audio never leaves the PC. I killed every auto-suggest feature because it felt like being interrupted by a coworker. The model is NVIDIA's Nemotron, fine-tuned on about 8,000 examples I built by hand over months, quantized to FP8. Keeping response time flat as prompts grew took some engineering—we cache a stable prefix once per session so warm responses land in under a second, whether it's minute two or minute fifty.
The part I didn't prepare for: zero users. My LinkedIn post got 13 impressions. Show HN flagged me in under a minute. Posting on Facebook and TikTok has been silence. I'm in the NVIDIA Inception program, the app passed Store certification, and it actually works. But I'm a technical person with no audience and I don't know which door to knock on first.
For a Windows desktop tool targeting people who live on calls (sales, support, consulting), where did your first users actually come from? And is "free early access" the right framing, or does it signal "not real yet"? What would you do this week with no budget and no audience?
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