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I tested Spanish in EchoControl. An accent mark almost broke it

I ran the first Spanish test build against the English baseline. Here's the real accuracy number, and the bug that almost slipped through before I caught it.

Our own waitlist told an AI we weren't available yet. We were

We set up a waitlist before checkout was ready, then forgot to fully remove it after launch — and it kept telling automated readers the product hadn't shipped yet.

A payment provider rejected us over one word. Here's the word we chose instead

A payment processor turned us down for looking too much like 'automation software' — and it changed how we describe EchoControl everywhere, not just at checkout.

Why we said no to a popular flight sim, and picked Elite Dangerous instead

Deciding which games get a profile isn't a popularity contest. Here's the real research behind why one flight sim got in and another, more popular one, didn't.

We built EchoControl to do less, not more

Every other voice tool in this space tries to prove it does more. We built EchoControl to do less, on purpose — the real trade-off, and why we think it's the actual differentiator.