So funny story.

I built Mumbl really, really fast. If you don't know what Mumbl is, it's a desktop voice to text AI tool that helps you write as fast as you can think. Super simple idea. I'm actually using it right now to write this post. It is the highest leverage tool with the least amount of cost possible that you can use right now. All AI tools are a little overhyped. This one is so simple it actually works.

But I have a lot of competition. I'm not the first one to do this. Mumbl just does it locally, meaning nothing you say ever leaves your computer. No cloud. No subscriptions sending your voice to some server. Just you and your machine.

Anyway. I found a competitor called SuperWhisper.

And I went to their website and my heart sank.

As soon as I saw their parallax scroll into their demo video I felt a tingle in my nuts because I was scared. They're doing so much better. They already have an iOS app. They have huge creators using it. Solo entrepreneurs on X, on YouTube, all posting about this tool. Their website looks like a real company built it.

Mine looked like... me. Because it was.

That was disheartening. For about 20 minutes.

Then something flipped. I realized: people are paying for this product. SuperWhisper doesn't own the entire market. There's room. And the thing that separates us is that Mumbl runs 100% on your device. No cloud. That matters to a lot of people.

So I sat down and rebuilt the entire website in one afternoon.

I'm talking cinematic scroll animations. A parallax hero section that transitions into a demo video. A bento grid with micro-animations showing every feature. 28 real brand logos for app compatibility. An animated privacy diagram. Dual-row testimonial marquee. The works.

Then I took all of that and propagated it across all 34 of our niche landing pages. Every single one now matches the homepage.

By the time I closed my laptop, mumbl.to looked like a team of 20 built it.

It was just me. In my apartment in St. George, Utah. With my cat sitting on the desk.

(Her name is SoPita by the way. We just got her. She's the best.)

The fire in my belly from seeing that competitor's site is what got it done. I don't think I would have shipped it that fast without the gut punch of seeing someone doing it better. Competition is weird like that. It hurts and then it helps.

I'm not saying I know what I'm doing. We're kind of just trying everything at this point. My co-founder Vicho and I are going crazy posting on TikTok. We have an AI influencer we're going to try out. If it doesn't work we'll go organic, maybe UGC. Vicho actually got our other project, Promptastic (a free prompt marketplace), up to 6,000 users through TikTok alone. And it's starting to make money, which is awesome. Still got a long way to go.

But the website? Go check it out. I'll paste the link here: mumbl.to

I had to relax later that night. Took my mind off it by playing Fortnite. Which of course just made me angry again. (Why do I keep playing that game.)

Other life updates since I'm here: we're watching Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3. If you're watching that, it's so fire. And yes, when I'm feeling bad I still look up Naruto motivation videos on TikTok. I'm 25 years old. I don't care.