Built a Native Mac App in a Day Using Claude Voice
johnwheelerdev · reddit · 2026-07-14
A developer with 25 years of experience shares how they collaborated almost entirely via microphone with Claude to build Dropper, a native Swift menu bar app, along with a companion website in under a day. The app allows users to drag files to the menu bar icon for upload to their own Cloudflare R2, generating a share link automatically copied to the clipboard. It also features an audio waveform player, video player, Markdown rendering, and screenshot/annotation tools. The author attributes this speed not just to Claude's coding skills, but to clearly defining the architecture, edge cases, and 'definition of done' upfront. The project also includes unit tests, a signed/notarized release pipeline, a debug CLI, with source code and a demo video publicly available.
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