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SteveChazin

1 karma · joined May 11, 2026

I spent 30 years leading product and marketing at Apple, Cisco, Salesforce, and Alarm.com, and was rehired personally by Steve Jobs in 1997 to help return Apple to profitability. I now run Skytech.io and write about AI at stevechazin.com under the banner "AI for the Rest of Us." I'm designing and building apps to see how far vibe coding can take us.
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SteveChazin··on Show HN: Vitals – A Mac activity monitor that thinks in apps, not processes
Best $5 I ever spent. Good job Atta
SteveChazin··on Tellie: A Teleprompter that listens. Vibe coded it while my granddaughter slept
I'm a 30-year tech veteran (Apple, Cisco, Salesforce) but I've never written production code. I built Tellie in 3 days during a visit to my granddaughter in Vermont, entirely by talking to Claude. The app uses on-device speech recognition to scroll the script as you talk. It's invisible to Zoom and screen recorders, which means scripts never leak into your recordings. Free, ~2MB DMG, no telemetry, no account.

The bigger thing this proves: software is no longer gated by technical skill. It's gated by imagination. I write about this every Thursday in AI for the Rest of Us.

Would love feedback.