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