Votes
151
Comments
24
What this means
1.8×Growing 1.8× faster than the typical Productivity launch.
Compared to 22 Productivity launches at the same age.
35%Mid-tier finish likely.
Projecting 151 votes by end of day-1.
+380%Launching in a 380% WoW growing category.
Menu Bar Apps had 24 launches this week vs 5 last.
21Founder Conviction Index: 21 — low signal.
Few of the conviction sub-signals (reputation, velocity, buyer-intent, tagline clarity) are firing yet.
Prediction
Top-5 finish probability
35%
today
Projected end-of-day votes
151range 113–204
Trajectory
stable
Vote pace holding steady.
Speed vs peers
1.8×
22 Productivity launches
About
Yap turns speech into text anywhere you can type on your Mac. Set a hotkey, talk, press it again, and the words get pasted into whatever field you were in. It runs entirely on device using macOS 26's speech APIs, so there's no model to download and nothing leaves your machine. It's around 3,000 lines of native Swift in a 4 MB app that idles near 60 MB of memory. Free, MIT licensed, and built by Frigade because we wanted it for ourselves.
AI Summary
Yap is an open-source voice dictation app for Mac that converts speech to text using macOS's speech APIs, operating entirely on-device. The app is lightweight at 4 MB and is free to use under the MIT license.
Vote & comment velocity
Scores
Velocity5.0
Vote pace vs avg
Momentum5.0
Sustained over 6h
Virality12.1
Spread × engagement
Engagement31.8
Comments per vote