Tired of bloated software, this dev built Voicr - a 3MB Mac menu bar app that dictates, translates, and rewrites text. A masterclass in scratching your own itch.
Ever spent half your morning writing an English email to your non-technical PM because words are hard? Yeah, same here. Code flows from my fingers like water, but writing docs? Absolute nightmare. That’s why a little tool on Product Hunt caught my eye today: Voicr for Mac.
The dev behind it, Aleks, had a classic problem. English is his second language. Speaking it in stand-ups is totally fine, but writing professional text took him 3x longer than it should.
He tried native Mac dictation, he tried Wispr Flow, and nothing clicked. It all felt clunky. So, he fired up his IDE and built his own damn app. It started as a simple dictation tool. Then feature creep kicked in, but the good kind. He added notes, a translator covering 27 languages, and an AI writing assistant to fix broken grammar.
The wild part? He crammed all of these ai tools into a tiny 3 MB application. You heard me right. 3MB. It chills quietly in your Mac menu bar, doesn't devour your RAM like Chrome on a Tuesday, and works globally with a single hotkey.
Sitting pretty at 102 upvotes, the community reaction is mostly a mix of respect and curiosity. Here's what the crowd is saying:
First, scratch your own itch. If you have a problem, chances are thousands of other devs do too. If current solutions suck, build it yourself. Who knows, you might even fund new ideas into a profitable side hustle.
Second, stop bloating your apps. 3 MB, guys. Take notes. Stop importing the entire NPM registry just to render a glowing button.
All in all, Voicr looks like a solid addition to the daily tech stack, especially if you're too lazy to type out long rants on Slack. Download it and see if the AI can actually understand your mumbling.
Source: Product Hunt
