### Willow Changed the Way Alexis Works

#### Before Willow

- **100 WPM**  
- Slow typing speed  
- **0**  
- Minutes saved  
- **40%**  
- Ideas captured  
- Slower email responses

Alexis was limited by the keyboard made with 1800s technology designed to prevent typewriter jams, not productivity. With lots of his day spent sending emails, the keyboard became a constant bottleneck for responding to founders and his team.

Interrupted and bottlenecked creativity.

The gap between thinking speed and typing speed meant ideas were constantly interrupted, especially when writing out thought processes or brainstorming by chatting with AI.

30 years of broken promises.

Alexis tried every voice tool, from Dragon NaturallySpeaking to Siri and Alexa. Every voice tool delivered the same frustrating experience that was never good enough for real work.

#### With Willow

- **175+ WPM**  
- Fast dictation speed  
- **400+**  
- Minutes saved/mo  
- **100%**  
- Ideas captured  
- **2x faster communication speed**

Alexis can now talk instead of type anywhere on his computer. He responds to founder emails, team messages, and social media comments two times faster. The time saved means he can support more portfolio companies in less time.

More creativity and idea flow.

Willow lets Alexis match his thinking speed. When he has an idea at 3 AM or needs to brainstorm with AI, he just talks naturally. His thoughts flow straight from his brain to the screen without keyboard friction.

The voice tool that finally works.

After trying and being disappointed by voice tools for over 30 years, Willow was the first voice dictation that actually worked. It understands his natural writing style and automatically knows when he's writing an email or text or social post. Willow is such a seamless dictation experience for him that he no longer has to go back and edit dictated text with his keyboard.

**Alexis Oharian**  
Founder, Reddit

#### "Once you see that return on investment for your time by using Willow, I think you'd be hard pressed to go back. It's a thing that, once you've experienced the power of voice and just dictating your idea into the computer when it works this well, you just never want to go back. "

### What Other users are saying

**Eric Bahn**  
@ericbahn  
Giving a shout out to the entire @WillowVoiceAI team, and the founders @LiuLawrence45 and @_allanguo.  
Thank you for this incredible product. It's only been a few weeks of playing with it, but I think that I have doubled my productivity when it comes to emails, texts, all messages.  
Really grateful for what you guys do and love how you ship so fast.

**Ben Gale**  
@bengale  
@WillowVoiceAI is a literal game changer for interacting with LLMs or cursor. Even just emails and slack and so much faster.

**Tom Johnson**  
@tomjohndesign  
Using @WillowVoiceAI is such a huge improvement to my productivity.  
So fast. Formatting is excellent. Instant sub.

**Michael Spalding**  
@SpaldingDad  
Found @WillowVoiceAI & have been amazed how much time this has saved me! Definitely recommend! Super easy to begin & makes work more efficient!

**Julien Codorniou**  
GP @ 20VC, facebook & msft vet  
Until 9 a.m. this morning, when my colleague Harry Stebbings mentioned it, I had never heard of this Willow (YC X25) speech-to-text desktop app.  
Just a few hours later, I’m a paying subscriber at $15/month, and I’m wondering how I ever worked without it 🥴💻.  
It’s hard not to be romantic about software 🧑‍💻✨. #lookatus #software4ever

**Dave Campbell**  
@itsdavecampbell  
Highly recommend trying @WillowVoiceAI. The basic premise is that voice is faster than typing. Hotkey and talk in any application, instant conversion to text. Definitely helping me get through my Slack messages in record speed.

🤖 **Yaniv Bernstein**  
The Startup Podcast  
Holy crap I feel I've just gotten superpowers.  
I remember back in the 1990s (yes I'm that old 😅) seeing ads for Dragon Dictate--a speech to text engine that allowed you to speak to your computer.  
It worked great! As long as:  
- You spoke slowly...  
- In English...  
- With an American accent...  
- And didn't use any strange words...  
...actually, it didn't work great. It was rubbish...

**Danny Hogan**  
@dannyhogancodes  
@WillowVoiceAI is absolutely amazing. Fastest $15 I’ve spent in a while.

**Shuayb**  
@Shuayb__  
@WillowVoiceAI is genuinely game changing. My entire workflow just improved x2.

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