Starday Coffee, Book Club App, and Tauri vs Swift

TJ Miller and Chris Gmyr talk through Novelhood, the book club app Chris is building with his wife, and how stacking design skills got him to a version that works for readers from 20 to 80. TJ shares where Sonari stands ahead of launch, including a listener DM that has him chasing custom speech models for people with speech impediments, exploring what accessible AI tooling could look like.

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References Mentioned

• Purity Coffee Sacred Cups Star Coffee - the honey processed Starday bag with the galaxy packaging
• North Meet South 199 - the crossover episode on vetting vibe-coded contributions
• Lovable - what Zillow hands to non-technical people for prototyping
• Novelhood - Chris's book club management app, wait list open
• Open Library - the book data behind Novelhood's title search
• Bookshop.org - the planned way for clubs to send book sales to a local bookstore
• Sonari - TJ's local-only Mac transcription app
• Halcyon - TJ's markdown notes app, built on Tauri
• Tauri - the framework TJ recommends over raw Swift for Mac apps
• Sparkle - the update framework TJ is wiring into Sonari
• Polar license keys - how TJ plans to handle Sonari licensing
• WhisperKit - the on-device models TJ would fine-tune for speech impediments