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A 30-year tech exec built his first Mac app in three days. Without knowing how to code. Here's what he shipped.
FAIRFAX, Va. - Virginir -- Steve Chazin, a product and marketing leader at Apple, Cisco, and Salesforce, today announced Tellie, a Mac teleprompter that listens to your voice and scrolls the script to match.
Built in three days using AI as a pair programmer, Tellie uses on-device speech recognition to match what you're actually saying to the words on screen. The app lives in the MacBook notch, stays invisible to Zoom and screen recorders, and processes all speech locally. Nothing ever leaves your Mac.
Chazin built the app this month during a visit to his granddaughter in Vermont. He worked in the hours when she was napping or at school, then named the app after her. Her name is Ellie. She's three and just learning to read.
"The bottleneck for creating software used to be technical skill," Chazin said. "Now it's imagination. I built Tellie because I needed it for my own work. But shipping it proved something bigger: ordinary people can now build real, useful software without permission from a tech company or years of training."
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"It's the first Mac app I've ever made," he added. "And I made it about a kid who's just learning to read."
Tellie is free forever for early adopters, runs on macOS 14+, and is available at https://tellie.skytech.io. The Apple-notarized DMG is approximately 2 megabytes.
Chazin is on a mission to decode AI for everyday people through his "AI for the Rest of Us" project at stevechazin.com.
About Steve Chazin
Steve Chazin spent 30 years leading product and marketing at Apple, Cisco, Salesforce, and Alarm.com, where he was rehired personally by Steve Jobs in 1997 and helped grow WebEx past $1B in annual recurring revenue. He now runs Skytech.io and writes about AI at stevechazin.com under the banner "AI for the Rest of Us." Tellie is his first shipped Mac app and was built without formal coding training, using AI as a pair programmer.
https://stevechazin.com
Built in three days using AI as a pair programmer, Tellie uses on-device speech recognition to match what you're actually saying to the words on screen. The app lives in the MacBook notch, stays invisible to Zoom and screen recorders, and processes all speech locally. Nothing ever leaves your Mac.
Chazin built the app this month during a visit to his granddaughter in Vermont. He worked in the hours when she was napping or at school, then named the app after her. Her name is Ellie. She's three and just learning to read.
"The bottleneck for creating software used to be technical skill," Chazin said. "Now it's imagination. I built Tellie because I needed it for my own work. But shipping it proved something bigger: ordinary people can now build real, useful software without permission from a tech company or years of training."
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"It's the first Mac app I've ever made," he added. "And I made it about a kid who's just learning to read."
Tellie is free forever for early adopters, runs on macOS 14+, and is available at https://tellie.skytech.io. The Apple-notarized DMG is approximately 2 megabytes.
Chazin is on a mission to decode AI for everyday people through his "AI for the Rest of Us" project at stevechazin.com.
About Steve Chazin
Steve Chazin spent 30 years leading product and marketing at Apple, Cisco, Salesforce, and Alarm.com, where he was rehired personally by Steve Jobs in 1997 and helped grow WebEx past $1B in annual recurring revenue. He now runs Skytech.io and writes about AI at stevechazin.com under the banner "AI for the Rest of Us." Tellie is his first shipped Mac app and was built without formal coding training, using AI as a pair programmer.
https://stevechazin.com
Source: stevechazin.com
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