Talking Friday

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Building Talking Friday — a full speech-to-speech AI that runs 100% on your iPhone. No cloud, no account, voice never leaves the device. Works offline, even in airplane mode.

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1mo ago

Anyone else building AI features without relying on external LLM APIs?

Hi all, there's a distinction I keep thinking about: apps built with AI (Cursor, Claude, Copilot writing the code) vs apps that depend on AI APIs at runtime to function.

I'm in the first camp. I used AI-assisted coding heavily to build Briskly (a cleaning app that scans your room and generates a timed task list), but the app itself makes zero LLM API calls. The scanning runs on Apple's Vision framework, entirely on-device. No tokens, no per-user inference costs, no latency, works offline, and my privacy label is basically empty.

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