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  Try Monologue: https://monologue.to Naveen Naidu built an app that found
  product-market fit backwards. Most apps launch first and then try to find
  users. Monologue, Naveen’s AI voice dictation app that came out of beta
  yesterday, did the opposite. It built a following of thousands of users during
  its incubation period at Every—many of them switching over from venture
  capital-backed competitors—all while the app barely had a landing page. The
  growth has continued in the 24 hours since launch, with an average of 1
  million words being transcribed weekly, and in this episode of AI & I, we sit
  down with Naveen to talk about his journey as the single engineer behind a
  viral app. We get into the false starts and side projects that taught Naveen
  how to ship fast, the brutal feedback that kept Monologue honest, why Every
  decided to build in a crowded category, and the AI coding tools that let one
  developer do the work of a team. Get free early access to Amazon's Alexa Plus:
  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCCNHWV5?ref_=aucc_us_dis_everyalexa_q3_25
  Timestamps: 00:00:00 – Start 00:01:27 – Introduction 00:03:51 – A live demo of
  Monologue 00:06:27 – Hard lessons from Naveen’s years in the wilderness
  00:12:29 – Building a muscle to ship fast 00:21:11 – The spark that became
  Monologue 00:26:09 – Dogfooding your way to a killer feature 00:29:45 – Why
  the harshest product feedback is the most valuable 00:31:47 – Every’s strategy
  for launching an app in a crowded space 00:40:08 – Giving Monologue the Every
  “smell” 00:45:09 – Naveen’s one-person AI stack to build beautiful apps If you
  found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!
  Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting
  ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s
  usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear
  more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow
  him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Links to resources mentioned in the
  episode: https://www.monologue.to/ https://every.to/
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# One Developer Got Thousands of Users Before His AI App Launched

Try Monologue: https://monologue.to Naveen Naidu built an app that found product-market fit backwards. Most apps launch first and then try to find users. Monologue, Naveen’s AI voice dictation app that came out of beta yesterday, did the opposite. It built a following of thousands of users during its incubation period at Every—many of them switching over from venture capital-backed competitors—all while the app barely had a landing page. The growth has continued in the 24 hours since launch, with an average of 1 million words being transcribed weekly, and in this episode of AI & I, we sit down with Naveen to talk about his journey as the single engineer behind a viral app. We get into the false starts and side projects that taught Naveen how to ship fast, the brutal feedback that kept Monologue honest, why Every decided to build in a crowded category, and the AI coding tools that let one developer do the work of a team. Get free early access to Amazon's Alexa Plus: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCCNHWV5?ref\_=aucc_us_dis_everyalexa_q3_25 Timestamps: 00:00:00 – Start 00:01:27 – Introduction 00:03:51 – A live demo of Monologue 00:06:27 – Hard lessons from Naveen’s years in the wilderness 00:12:29 – Building a muscle to ship fast 00:21:11 – The spark that became Monologue 00:26:09 – Dogfooding your way to a killer feature 00:29:45 – Why the harshest product feedback is the most valuable 00:31:47 – Every’s strategy for launching an app in a crowded space 00:40:08 – Giving Monologue the Every “smell” 00:45:09 – Naveen’s one-person AI stack to build beautiful apps If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Links to resources mentioned in the episode: https://www.monologue.to/ https://every.to/

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