Setting the Stage:

10 days.

Global stage.

Biggest players in the game.

No second chances.

We knew what it meant:

Ship something absurdly good or get lost in the noise.

Day 1: The Spark

We sat down and asked:

“What’s something that feels broken today?”

Answer: writing assistants.

• Too slow.
• Too dumb.
• Too generic.

Idea hit fast:

What if autocomplete actually understood you?

Not generic AI gibberish.

You. Your voice. Your flow.

Day 2: First Blood

Prototyped immediately.

• Tiptap + React = fast editable surface.
• Hardcoded fake suggestions.
• Forget infrastructure. Focus on feeling.

Day 3–4: Skeleton Crew

Started wiring the real brain:

• OpenAI API, fine-tuned for whispered completions.
• Latency budget: < 50ms target. No compromise.
• Custom hooks for ghost suggestions.

Text0 was ugly.

But it felt alive.

And that was enough.

Day 5–6: We Hit Walls

Problem:

LLMs are slow if you send them the whole damn essay.

Solution:

• Smart windowing: send only local context.
• Prediction cache: pre-load probable next words.

Day 7: Shaping the UX

No bloat.

No toolbars.

Just you, the words, and a whisper of what could come next.

Dark theme only.

Auto-adapting suggestion tones.

Mouse? Optional.

Keyboard? King.

Day 8: Infra Panic

• Vercel edge functions to the rescue.
• Optimized token usage to stay fast and cheap.

If the first keystroke lagged, we considered it a bug.

Period.

Day 9: Polish and Fear

• Landing page: built overnight.
• Demo: no fancy edits. Raw recording. One take.
• Presentation: tell a story, not just show a tool.

At this point?

We knew it wasn’t just a hack.

It was a product.

Day 10: Launch Day

Deployed.

Slept 2 hours.

Woke up to:

“You’re finalists.”

“You won.”

How We Won

• Speed: Judges felt it. Zero latency.
• Focus: Solved a real pain. No feature bloat.
• Polish: It looked inevitable, even if it barely survived behind the scenes.

Final Thought

We didn’t just build an app.

We built a weapon for writers.

And we did it under fire.

You’re not typing anymore.

You’re thinking faster than ever.

That’s Text0.