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Voice memo → structured idea, in one tap

Ramble into your phone. An AI turns it into a clean problem/solution/opportunity entry, ready to drop into your idea vault.

The Problem

The best ideas come on walks, in the shower, or mid-conversation — exactly when you can't sit down and write structured notes. By the time you do, the spark is gone.

The Solution

A tiny iOS shortcut + Whisper + Claude pipeline: hit a button, talk for 60 seconds, get back a structured markdown file with title, summary, problem, solution, opportunity, and suggested tags.

The Opportunity

Solo founders, researchers, PMs, and writers all sit on a graveyard of half-formed ideas. Removing the friction of capture changes how often they actually finish thinking through one.


Sketch of the flow

  1. iOS Shortcut records audio and sends it to a small server.
  2. Whisper transcribes.
  3. Claude is prompted: “From this transcript, extract a one-line summary, the problem, the solution, the opportunity, and 2–3 tags. Output strict YAML frontmatter.”
  4. Result is written as a .md file in this very repo and pushed.
  5. Site auto-rebuilds.

Open questions

  • Where should the audio + transcripts live? Probably never leave the VPS.
  • How do you handle the case where the ramble contains several ideas?