The backstory
I watched ten people try to
download a file. Then I built this.
It started on a Teams call. I was showing my colleagues a voice-to-text tool — something I thought would help everyone write faster. Ten minutes, quick setup, done.
Ten minutes became an hour. People couldn't find the download. Someone's antivirus flagged it. Two people needed admin permissions they didn't have. We spent most of the call squinting at each other's screens trying to troubleshoot. And the best part? Nobody ever used that tool. Not a single person.
Here's what bugged me after: the technology works. Speaking is three to four times faster than typing. The AI behind it is incredibly accurate. But every tool I found was either too complicated to set up, too expensive to justify, or locked behind a monthly subscription that nobody wanted to add to an already-ridiculous stack of recurring charges.
So I built HitRecNotes. One app. One hotkey. Hold it, speak, release — your words appear wherever your cursor is. Emails, docs, Slack, whatever you're working in. It costs $39, once, and it's yours. No subscription. No usage limits. No asking your manager to approve another monthly charge.
I've been using it every day for months now. It's one of those tools that sounds small until you realize you haven't typed a single email since lunch.
— Marta, builder of HitRecNotes
P.S. If you're one of the people from that Teams call — this one's for you. No troubleshooting required.