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Mobile dev is getting ridiculous (in a good way)

I built an iPhone app without owning a Mac. Then I made it run on Android too. The whole thing took about nine days, and most of it happened on Linux servers I talk to from my phone. That sentence would have sounded like a scam a couple of years ago. Now it’s just how my week went. What CaptionCam does CaptionCam is a small app I wanted for myself. You record or import a video, it transcribes the speech on the phone, you fix the captions, and it exports an MP4 with the subtitles burned into the picture. The ones with the yellow word that follows along as you talk, like every other short video out there. ...

October 18, 2026 · 7 min · 1285 words · Anaz Haidhar