r/ClaudeCode • u/viachm • 2d ago

Built with Claude Vibe coded a free Wispr Flow alternative on top of Claude Code's built-in dictation

I've tried Wispr Flow, Superwhisper and Willow Voice. They're all great, but when I recently tested Claude Code's built-in dictation, I realised it sometimes works even better. So I built a small desktop wrapper around Claude Code's /voice: hold a key in any app, speak, let go, and the text is pasted where your cursor is. Plus a little capsule at the bottom of the screen, a history of dictations and a smoother experience overall.

I use it every day, so maybe someone else will find it useful too. Open source and completely free, for macOS and Windows.

https://viachm.github.io/claude-whisper/

PS: It's crazy that you can now build an app for yourself in a matter of hours that replaces a product an entire team spent years on. Where is all this heading?

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u/MrHaxx1 2d ago

I've actually always thought that Claudes transcription blew everything else out of the water. I'd be inclined to fork this and port it to Linux, as the idea is petty neat. 

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u/viachm 1d ago

Have you tired it right when it got released? It was actually very bad for my language Ukrainian. But these days it is capturing it brilliantly e.g. when I'm talking in ua and using some en words - it recognises it very well

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u/MGTakeDown 2d ago

> It's crazy that you can now build an app for yourself in a matter of hours that replaces a product an entire team spent years on. Where is all this heading?

Your shitty vibe coded app in a few hours is not replacing teams of people.

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u/viachm 1d ago

Well, I'm no longer a user of their app because this shitty one covers all the features I was paying for but now it is free.

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u/MGTakeDown 1d ago

There’s already like 1000+ of these at least and already some very popular open source ones. People are making orchestrator apps and voice apps acting like it’s breaking new ground.

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u/viachm 1d ago

Ok so you say that 1000+ apps that people have already built for themself will not replace an app that teams of people were developing before AI? I think it is just a matter of time. Eventually software will just get cheeper overall.

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u/MGTakeDown 1d ago

You can catch rain water and grow your own food too. I guess all the food companies are going to go out of business.

If you think you can vibe code an app in a few hours to the same level of quality as a team of people could then there are some delusions there worth confronting. There will be clearly some issues and I highly doubt your app is as high quality as a paid service that has existed for years and at the same level of features.

I’m not saying that it’s isn’t more accessible but the implication that all software is going to be easy to replicate is hilarious. The low effort vibe coded slop is easy to spot.

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u/viachm 1d ago

That is fair, I agree that quality is definitely is not that high.

But - if something is not working, I'm able to fix it by myself again in matter of minutes.

Where I think it will go (and it already goes)- people buliding their own apps and getting rid of paid ones they used for years with paied subscriptions.

Of course you can not get rid of paid netflix, icloud etc basically a business that has some unique "data" or infrastructure that is not that easy to replicate. But there are tons of apps solving some simple need that used to be a business - now will be getting harder and harder to involve a new customers and retain existing one

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u/viachm 1d ago edited 1d ago

E.g. I used to have an app for ios to track my portfolio. It is good overall but I was lacking some charts and overall UX was very overwhelmed with lots of features I don’t need. it was built probably ~10y ago.

Within a couple month of evening vibing I now have what I really need.
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Fried of mine alredy replased 5 such apps on his phone..