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Axel here, one of the builders of Epilude. Appreciate the question.

Whilst the subscription plans work as any normal SaaS subscription, we're fond of pay-once models that don't tie you into continuing to pay for a product unless you feel you continue to get value from the updates we're shipping to the product.

We currently think of model updates as part of the updates that we continuously ship to make to the product better, and so we include model updates in the "one year of app updates" that come with the Pay Once option. At the moment, I think this approach makes sense, but we're of course open to feedback.

In any case, I'll update the info on the website to clarify this. Thanks for pointing it out.


On the infobit, I've been trying to build in a similar completely local LLM cleanup step into Epilude. Willing to share anything you've found especially useful in producing good spellchecks/cleanups in your local setup?

Local voice dictation and text editing for Mac. We'd tried most of the available options but wanted something that runs completely locally, is fast and has a good UX.

https://epilude.com


Really interesting perspective


Axel here (the founder). You raise a good point and I agree with your sentiment. The aim shouldn’t be to replace direct conversations with real customers, which undoubtedly lead to insights that are hard to capture in any other way today. The problem I’ve heard from most product teams I’ve spoken with is that it can be hard to speak with customers often enough to reach this type of insight quickly enough to inform product decisions. That’s where AI-led user interviews can help, as they allow you to interview a large amount of customers and identify patterns and themes within hours (instead of days or weeks).


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