Starting the SpeechPost journey

Why SpeechPost exists, what problem it solves for founders, and how the early beta will shape what it becomes.

The moment I realised content was becoming another job

As a founder, I know I should show up regularly on LinkedIn and X.

Share what I am building.
Share what I am learning.
Share what works and what absolutely does not.

In reality, this is what happens:

• I get ideas while walking, on the train, or between meetings.

• By the time I am in front of the laptop, the energy is gone.

• Writing a single LinkedIn post takes 30–60 minutes.

• Writing a blog post is easily an hour or more.

Most of that time is not even “thinking”. It is:

• Fighting with the first sentence

• Rewriting the hook

• Re-ordering the points

• Editing small words again and again

At the end, I am tired and behind on the work I actually wanted to do: building product.

That is the pain that started SpeechPost.

Voice is natural. The keyboard is the bottleneck.

When I talk to friends or other founders, the ideas flow easily.

Give me a topic, and I can speak for five minutes without any problem:

• Why I made a decision

• What failed

• What I would do differently

• A lesson that might save someone else time

Speaking is never the bottleneck. Typing is.

I started thinking:

What if I could just speak my thoughts, and get a good draft for LinkedIn, X, or a blog post?

Not a “perfect” post. Not a magic one-click viral button.
Just a solid draft that sounds like me and removes 80 percent of the friction.

That is what SpeechPost is meant to do.

What SpeechPost is

SpeechPost is a simple idea:

You speak your idea. SpeechPost turns it into ready-to-edit content.

For the first version, the focus is narrow on purpose:

• Input:

  • A short voice recording from you

• Output:

  • A LinkedIn post

  • An X thread

  • A short blog draft

Plus a few small things that make it actually usable:

• Tone options (for example: professional, casual, friendly)

• “My style” learned from a few sample posts you provide

• Simple status for each recording (draft, to post, posted)

No complicated automation.
No scheduling calendar.
No fake “all-in-one” promise.

Just remove the hardest part: turning raw thoughts into a first draft.

Who I am building this for

I am building SpeechPost first for people like me:

• Founders, indie hackers, and solo builders

• People who are already busy writing code, talking to users, and running the business

• People who know content is important but cannot spend hours on every post

If you:

• Have ideas during the day but lose them

• Feel guilty when you do not post

• Or you feel that writing content takes too much time away from your product

then you are exactly the person I have in mind while building this.

Why I am starting with a small early beta

The first version of SpeechPost will not be perfect.
That is intentional.

I do not want to guess in silence what “the ideal workflow” should be.
I want to see how real founders actually use it.

So the plan for the early beta is:

• Keep the group small

• Invite people who really create content or want to start

• Watch what they do more than what they say

• Be ready to change the product based on that

I am not trying to build a huge generic content platform.
I am trying to build a very good tool for a very specific type of person.

Early users will help define that line.

What to expect next

Here is what happens from here:

1. Early access and beta users
   The landing page is live at speechpost.ai with a simple early access form.

2. Core workflow first
   I am focusing on a single flow before anything else:
   Record voice → Get the social post and blog draft.

3. Invite a small group
   Once this is stable enough, I will invite the first small group from the waitlist to try it, probably with a lot of direct feedback loops.

4. Iterate in public
   I plan to share updates, mistakes, and lessons along the way. This blog will be one of the places where I do that.

If this resonates with you

If you read this and thought:

“Yes, that is exactly my problem. I have things to say, but not the time or energy to write them all.”

then I would love to have you as part of the early group.

You can join the early access list on the homepage and, if you want, reply to the welcome email with a short note about how you create content today. That will help me understand your workflow better and build SpeechPost in a way that actually fits your life.

For any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me

collin@speechpost.ai | @collinmendons