Slow and Steady · Hacktoberfest Week 3

Talk to the Book

Dictate a memory. A local Gemma cleans it into a first draft and files it into the right part of My Story. ElevenLabs reads it back so you can hear it.

Part 1Breaking into tech0 dictations
Part 2Founder years0 dictations
Part 3PayPal0 dictations
Part 4The AI pivot0 dictations

Step 1 · Talk

Tell the memory out loud

Ramble is fine. Filler, false starts, and going in circles are the machine's problem now, not yours.

Upload audio

No mic or no key? Paste a transcript here instead. The draft step works either way.

Drafting runs on local Gemma first (Ollama), with AI Studio as a fallback. Your dictation stays on your machine for that step.

Your book outline

My Story, in 4 parts

Built for My Story, and that book is the default below. Writing your own? Change the title and the parts, in your words, and Gemma files your dictations against your outline instead. Saved only in this browser.

Book title

Part nameWhat belongs in this part?Learning to code, career change, first opportunities, impostor feelings, early community, getting the first real break.
Part nameWhat belongs in this part?Starting things of her own, freelancing and founder work, risks taken, money stress, lessons learned the hard way, betting on herself.
Part nameWhat belongs in this part?Developer advocacy at PayPal, moving into software engineering, the team being eliminated, the win of getting there and the loss of how it ended, leaving in April 2025.
Part nameWhat belongs in this part?Building with AI agents, building in public, California Black Stories, the current job search, community, and what comes next.

Edits apply to the next dictation you draft. Dictations already saved keep the part they were filed under.