{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AI & I","title":"One Developer Got Thousands of Users Before His App Launched","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3445,"description":"Naveen Naidu built an app that found product-market fit backwards.\nMost apps launch first and then try to find users. Monologue, Naveen’s AI voice dictation app that came out of beta yesterday, did the opposite. It built a following of thousands of users during its incubation period at Every—many of them switching over from venture capital-backed competitors—all while the app barely had a landing page.\nThe growth has continued in the 24 hours since launch, with an average of 1 million words being transcribed weekly, and in this episode of AI & I, we sit down with Naveen to talk about his journey as the single engineer behind a viral app. We get into the false starts and side projects that taught Naveen how to ship fast, the brutal feedback that kept Monologue honest, why Every decided to build in a crowded category, and the AI coding tools that let one developer do the work of a team.\n\nGet free early access to Amazon's Alexa Plus: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCCNHWV5?ref_=aucc_us_dis_everyalexa_q3_25\nTimestamps:\n00:01:27 – Introduction\n00:03:51 – A live demo of Monologue\n00:06:27 – Hard lessons from Naveen’s years in the wilderness\n00:12:29 – Building a muscle to ship fast\n00:21:11 – The spark that became Monologue\n00:26:09 – Dogfooding your way to a killer feature\n00:29:45 – Why the harshest product feedback is the most valuable\n00:31:47 – Every’s strategy for launching an app in a crowded space\n00:40:08 – Giving Monologue the Every “smell”\n00:45:09 – Naveen’s one-person AI stack to build beautiful apps\nIf you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share!\nWant even more?\nSign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free.\nTo hear more from Dan Shipper:\nSubscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe\nFollow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper\n\nLinks to resources mentioned in...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tpm1hNSy8JXTtPDypo5McPF0S6eDqruRTGYywu9SVrc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yNDM2/YzU4NDNmYTQxNTJh/MTEzYjE4YmJmYTg5/ODY1NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}