African developer reimagined $1.3 million startup in 9 minutes On October 30, YC-backed startup Subvocal announced a $1.3 million funding round led by Yinterator and Afore Capital. His product? Smart glasses that turn silent speech into text by detecting tiny movements in the facial muscles. According to the company, the technology can process more than 200 words per minute. But just one day later, entrepreneur Joe Blau showed a surprisingly different approach. He built an experimental application for AirPods Pro 3 that tries to detect silent speech using the headphones' built-in accelerometer and gyroscope. The idea is simple, even when you don't speak out loud, a silent word generator creates tiny movements that can be detected by sensors. According to the report, his software reads these signals about 25 times per second. Blau claims that he built the app in just 9 minutes using AI coding, commonly known as Windcoding. A $1.3 million startup versus developer with AirPods and 9 minutes of coding. Of course, rapid prototyping is not necessarily a substitute for dedicated subbook hardware or a proven product. But this is another example of AI development preventing the barrier to building experimental technology. Source: @aipost 🏴.

African developer reimagined $1.3 million startup in 9 minutes On October 30, YC-backed startup Subvocal announced a $1.3 million funding round led by Yinterator and Afore Capital. His product? Smart glasses that turn silent speech into text by detecting tiny movements in the facial muscles. According to the company, the technology can process more than 200 words per minute. But just one day later, entrepreneur Joe Blau showed a surprisingly different approach. He built an experimental application for AirPods Pro 3 that tries to detect silent speech using the headphones' built-in accelerometer and gyroscope. The idea is simple, even when you don't speak out loud, a silent word generator creates tiny movements that can be detected by sensors. According to the report, his software reads these signals about 25 times per second. Blau claims that he built the app in just 9 minutes using AI coding, commonly known as Windcoding. A $1.3 million startup versus developer with AirPods and 9 minutes of coding. Of course, rapid prototyping is not necessarily a substitute for dedicated subbook hardware or a proven product. But this is another example of AI development preventing the barrier to building experimental technology. Source: @aipost 🏴.