Andrew Dyuzhov

I build MetaWhisp, a free voice-to-text app for Mac that transcribes on your Mac by default with OpenAI's Whisper model. On the Free plan there is no cloud and no account, and your audio stays on your laptop. Pro adds cloud transcription and built-in AI.

Before MetaWhisp, I was paying cloud transcription APIs to produce podcasts — the bills kept climbing and I kept worrying about who actually saw the audio. When Argmax's WhisperKit landed and M-series Macs became fast enough to run Whisper locally, paying per-minute to a third-party cloud stopped making sense. So I built MetaWhisp.

The people I hear from are lawyers (attorney-client privilege), therapists (HIPAA), journalists (source protection), and developers dictating into Claude or Cursor — people who wanted a tool that physically can't leak their audio.

I work solo. My pair-programmer is Anthropic's Claude on the $200/month Max plan — she writes the code I dictate, ships the daily blog articles, reviews my CSS, and never asks for equity. The setup deliberately eliminates the coordination overhead of a small team. Product decisions ship the day they're made.

Previously, I led growth at Selzy (MarTech), where I learned that the fastest way to build something useful is to build the thing you already needed yourself.