Cue - One key, in every app. Your words, already written.
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Cue is an AI assistant that lives in every window on your Mac and in a keyboard on your iPhone. Press one key wherever you are. Tap it to draft a reply in your voice from the thread you are reading. Hold it to dictate: your words land in the field cleaned up, dialect kept, in 17 languages. Double-tap to talk, and ask about what is on your screen. It records and writes up meetings, reads your connected accounts, and never sends anything for you. Free plan, no card. Fourteen days of Pro to start.
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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Ibrahim, and I built Cue because I got tired of running errands for a sentence.
What inspired it
Picture me in Mail with a one-line reply already in my head. To get it written, I opened a chat tab, pasted the thread, typed the ask, waited, copied the answer, switched back, pasted it, and then rewrote it, because it sounded like a polite robot who had never met me.
Six steps around one sentence, and the sentence was the only part that was ever the job. The work was here. The help was six steps away. Cue is what happens when you refuse to commute.
The problem
Every assistant wants you to come to it. And voice tools hand you a transcript with your ums lovingly preserved, while most of them iron the dialect out of people on the way.
What Cue is
Cue is not a place you go. It's one key on your Mac.
Tap it and it drafts the reply in your voice, from the thread you're already in.
Hold it and dictate: your words land in the field cleaned up, dialect intact, in 17 languages.
Double-tap it and just talk: what changed in this thread, what does this error mean.
On iPhone, Cue is a keyboard, so it works in whatever app you were already typing in.
One rule has never moved: Cue drafts, you press send. There is no send button in Cue.
How the approach changed
Almost everything I assumed on day one turned out backwards.
The first version had a lovely window. But the whole point was not having to go anywhere, and I had built somewhere to go. The window left. The key stayed.
Dictation was supposed to take a weekend. It became the hardest thing in the product: cleaning up speech while you're still speaking means the text arrives in pieces, and the joins kept eating commas. The iPhone keyboard went through three rebuilds before two thumbs could type on it at full speed. Elegance, it turns out, is mostly rebuilds.
Privacy was going to be a setting. It became the architecture. Your memory and drafts live on your Mac. Connections are read-only until you approve a write on screen. Meeting audio is deleted the moment the transcript is ready. And when you're screen-sharing, Cue's windows stay out of the share.
Try it
Free plan, no card, and fourteen days of Pro for every new account.
I'd love to know what you would use it for.