Congrats on shipping this. I love handy on my Mac, my phone for STT in situations where it’s not possible/poor performance of the native Model for STT(e.g apple’s thing is not upto scruff, like mistranslating words corresponding to a domain).

Noob question: How do you think about funding from a foundation(i have no clue if you need it or not, I do hope you have a way to get paid one way or another because handy is amazing) for maintenance of this? if you did or were going to get paid by asking for maintaining such a project what might be the kind of organizations you would look for to get supported and how would you do it?

Thanks! What an excellent question, I’m not sure I have a good answer. I kind of became an open source maintainer by accident as Handy became popular

Certainly I am very lucky that quite a few people donate to Handy, and also some people and organizations who sponsor the work I do

To be honest I just love contributing to open source and wish to continue to do so. So anyone who supports this is good to me. Organizations which believe in OSS and push it forward are typically most aligned with me

Of course you can always email me (contact@handy.computer) and we can discuss in more detail

OS-native dictation on iOS requires uploading your address book to Apple on every request, even if you don’t use iCloud. I unfortunately have to leave it disabled for this reason.