Why I built Vybespk

I'm a solo developer. A while ago I broke my hand, and overnight the keyboard, the tool I'd used every day for my whole career, became the thing I couldn't use.

The work didn't stop. Coding agents like Claude Code and Codex had already changed how I wrote software: I described what I wanted and reviewed what came back. With one hand, that was still possible, just slow. What I really wanted was to talk to the agent the way I'd talk to a colleague, and not be stuck at the desk to do it.

Dictation wasn't enough

I tried the obvious tools. Dictation typed my half-sentences, my "um, actually"s, and everything else in the room straight into the prompt. It didn't know the difference between me telling the agent what to build and me telling my kid to put his shoes on. And once a prompt was sent, I still had to walk back to the screen to approve every command and see whether it worked.

So I built what I needed

Vybespk listens the way a good collaborator does. You can pause, think out loud, and change your mind; it turns that into one clean prompt and sends it only when you say "send it". It learns your voice, so other people in the room don't end up in your code. It reads permission requests out loud so you can answer them from wherever you are, and it tells you when the work is done. Speech recognition runs on your own Mac, because what you say at home is yours.

I use it while doing the dishes, tidying up, or pacing around thinking. That's what it's for: extending your reach beyond the desk, without giving up the control you have at the keyboard.

One person, on purpose

Vybespk is built and run by me alone and paid for by the people who use it, so they're the only ones I answer to. I read every email, so if something breaks, if it mishears you, or if there's something you'd like it to do, write to me at support@vybespk.com.

What's next

An iPhone app, so you can talk to the agent on your Mac from anywhere: your phone becomes the microphone and speaker, while the work keeps running at home.

Thanks for trying it.
Mike Hall
Developer of Vybespk