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Ito AI, open source smart dictation

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Hey HN, I’m Evan, cofounder and CTO of Ito AI.Ito is a voice to intent app that turns what you say into structured text: notes, messages, code, or any text field you’re working in. It’s designed to feel fast, clean, and distraction free. It works on Windows and Mac.Most speech tools are either locked inside closed systems or overly complicated & overly parameterized and difficult to setup. We wanted something that works like a native app, looks good, and stays transparent about your data. Ito is open-source under GPL-3.Our focus is simplicity and polish. You can use a few different models and providers but we're still working on an entirely local first experience. It's also pretty easy to host yourself if you want to avoid our infra all together.We’re still early, but it’s already stable enough that I use it daily for coding notes, writing, and quick thoughts between tasks.Try it here: https://ito.aiCode: https://github.com/heyito/itoWould love feedback, critiques, and ideas for integrations.

HN · launched Nov 6, 2025 · 16 upvotes (top 37%) · 0 views

Niche: voice dictation software · 224 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Building an autonomous system that creates full single-use containerized environments for every PR, builds the app, and executes browser agent flows requires sophisticated cloud sandboxing and orchestration infrastructure.

What it would actually take: The architecture requires a secure, high-density sandboxing engine (such as Firecracker microVMs or dynamic Kubernetes pods) to build arbitrary codebases, provision ephemeral dependencies, and run containerized apps safely. On top of the orchestration layer, it requires autonomous agent frameworks (Playwright/Puppeteer guided by multimodal vision-language models) that parse PR diffs, derive impacted user journeys, dynamically execute browser actions, capture video/logs, and generate reproducible bug reports.

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Competitors

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