Microphone
Talk out your side-project ideas, then test them with ads
Details
- External ID
- 48900788
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Microphone
- Website domain
- trie.dev
- Launched
- July 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5418160095579451
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
If you are an aspiring founder, any VC will ask you this question: “why are you the only person who could solve this”. If you want to generate passive income with your side idea, get ready to enter a crowded market as everyone and their mother is shipping. Unless you have an active X account or you’re a TikTok sensation distribution is going to be tough.I just launched the trie.dev microphone beta to help folks find their edge. You yap into your phone about your ideas; Trie turns the rambling into hypotheses, then prioritizes them based on your experience and your realistic ability to distribute in that idea space — surfacing the problems only you can solve. From there you can generate creative and run Meta ads against your hypotheses straight from your phone, with zero setup, to see how real people respond.I built it initially for myself and friends as an “intake form” for running paid ads to help validate our side gig ideas.Happy to chat about how it works or the stack. Joining the waitlist will send you an email to join via TestFlight.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- brainstorm ideas and validate with ads
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A multi-modal wrapper that takes an audio recording, transcribes it via Whisper, generates ad copy with an LLM, and integrates with Meta/Google Ads APIs is readily vibe-coded.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Meta ads platform (native)
Concerns raised: Meta account restrictions/blocks prevent ad running, Free services may indicate low value, Android/Web versions not yet available, Voice dictation uncomfortable for introverted users
Feature requests: Text input option instead of voice dictation, Android and web platform support, Direct Meta ad campaign creation from mobile, Simplified workflow (skip hypothesis generation, focus on ad testing)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 67 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #35 of 68 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 257 days after the earliest competitor.
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