Building Software from My Phone
17 hours ago
- The author created a mobile-friendly calendar for a small town's concert series using exe.dev, after finding the original website difficult to browse on a phone.
- They prefer manual organization over AI delegation due to lossy outcomes and the complexity of personal tastes not being reducible to simple preferences.
- The author uses exe.dev VMs to quickly work on ideas on the go via high-quality transcription on iOS, which provides more context than typing.
- Voice mode on the phone enables efficient triage of tasks while walking or doing chores, being more pleasant than staring at the screen.
- Key features of the iOS app include notifications and a share sheet for sending screenshots, files, and audio to VMs easily.
- The share sheet is especially useful for transcriptions, where the author records voice memos for blog posts or features and dispatches them to a configured VM for processing.
- Third-party transcription services are avoided due to clumsiness, extra work, or poor integration with the author's digital workflow.