Why this exists
Because one person decided he was done typing - and built the helper he could not buy.
Built for me, first
MyQuietShadow is being built by someone who talks to his computer all day - dictating to AI tools, narrating over screens, thinking out loud - and got tired of the keyboard being the bottleneck between thought and machine. The mission is personal and concrete: never have to type words again. Everything else grows from there.
That is also the promise to you: this is not a committee's product. It is used in anger every single day by the person building it, and the features that survive are the ones that earn their place in a real working day.
The itch
It started as an internal tool: a recorder built for QA work, with screen capture, audio, Whisper transcription, and a dictation hotkey that typed what you said into any app. The dictation was supposed to be a side feature. It took over. Speaking a paragraph in the time a sentence takes to type changes how you work with a computer - especially in the age of AI, when half of what we type is us explaining context a machine already watched us live through.
The name
A shadow follows you quietly, stays out of the way, and is simply there when you turn to it. That is the product: a quiet helper at your side - it types for you, acts for you, remembers for you. It is quiet so you don't have to be: it's quiet, you're not. And it is my quiet shadow - the possessive is the privacy stance in one word. Local, private, yours alone.
(It was nearly called Echo, after a much-loved dog. A certain large company's smart speaker had other plans.)
Who is building it
Soren Frederiksen - software builder of thirty years, founder at Center Consulting, and the product's most demanding user. Built local-first on principle, not as a feature checkbox.
Talk to us
The waitlist asks one question - "what do you wish you could do by voice?" - and a person reads every answer. You can also reply to any email we send. Contact: soren@centerconsulting.com