TypeSay didn't start as a product. It started as a problem we had ourselves.
We're full-time software and AI research engineers. We've spent careers building SaaS platforms, internal tools, and secure systems for industries where you can't afford to mess up. Banking. Healthcare. Defense. The kind of work where privacy isn't a marketing word on a landing page, it's a contract with real consequences if you get it wrong.
And every day, we were doing the same thing as everyone else. Typing. Typing emails, typing docs, typing code comments, typing into ticketing systems, typing into chat. Hours of it. Our hands hurt. Our wrists hurt. The keyboard was eating our productivity.
So we tried the obvious fixes. Cloud dictation tools wanted us to upload our voice to their servers, create accounts, and agree to data policies that, let's be honest, none of us read carefully. As engineers who've shipped systems for sensitive industries, that was an instant no. We knew what happened to that data. We'd built systems that ingested data exactly like that.
Built-in OS dictation was clunky, locked to one platform, and got things wrong constantly. The other "private" tools out there were either abandoned or required so much setup that we lost the productivity we were trying to gain in the first place.
So we did what engineers do. We built our own.
The Tool We Wished Existed
We wanted something simple. Hold a hotkey. Speak. Release. Words show up wherever your cursor is. No cloud. No account. No subscription. No telemetry phoning home in the background. Works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Fast enough that you forget it's running.
We built it on Tauri 2.0 with a Rust backend, used OpenAI's open-source Whisper model running locally through whisper.cpp, and added GPU acceleration so it would feel instant on whatever hardware you happened to be on. The whole installer came in around 5 MB. Memory usage when idle is basically nothing.
We used it ourselves for months. Internally. Privately. It changed how we worked.
Then we showed it to a friend. Then a colleague. Then someone in another company. Then a lawyer. Then a doctor. Then a developer who handles client code that legally cannot leave their machine.
And the same thing happened every time. "Where can I buy this?"
The Moment We Realized This Was Bigger Than Us
We weren't planning to launch a product. We were a small team of engineers who'd built something to solve our own problem. But the requests kept coming, and they kept coming from people we respected. People whose work also depended on privacy, focus, and tools that respected their time.
The pattern was obvious. Privacy-conscious professionals were tired of the trade. Tired of being told that the price of using modern AI tools was handing over your data, your conversations, your files, your voice. They wanted the productivity without the surveillance.
So we cleaned it up, polished the onboarding, opened the source code, and shipped it.
Why We Made It a One-Time Purchase
There was a long conversation about pricing. The "smart" play, by Silicon Valley standards, would have been a subscription. Recurring revenue is what VCs like to see on a slide deck. $10 a month, locked-in users, churn metrics, expansion revenue.
We hated that idea.
We hated it because we, as users, hate it. We're tired of being charged every month for software that paid for itself a long time ago. We're tired of waking up to price hikes, feature paywalls, and "we've updated our terms" emails. We wanted to build a product that you bought once and owned forever. The way software used to work. The way software should work.
So that's what we did. $249, one time, lifetime license. Pay once, own it, use it forever. No renewal. No surprise charges. No held-hostage moment three years from now when we decide to triple the price.
The Bigger Problem We Couldn't Stop Thinking About
There was something else nagging at us as TypeSay started picking up momentum.
In the last twenty years, the software industry has produced more wealth than almost any other sector in human history. Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon. These companies have generated trillions of dollars in market value. And every single dollar of that came from one place. Users.
Your data trained their models. Your attention sold their ads. Your purchases filled their warehouses. Your voice, your photos, your search history, your location, your contacts, your social graph. All of it became raw material for one of the largest wealth transfers in modern history.
You generated the value. They captured it.
There was never a moment, in any of those companies' growth, where the user got a real seat at the table. There was no revenue share. There was no equity for being one of the millions of people who made the platform worth what it became. You were the product, and the product doesn't get paid.
We're not naive. We're not going to fix that on our own. But we can refuse to repeat it.
So We Built an Affiliate Program That Actually Pays
When we sat down to design the TypeSay Affiliate Program, the first thing we agreed on was this. It had to be real money. Not 2%. Not "store credit." Not a glorified discount code. Real money, paid in cash, on every sale.
Here's what we built.
20% commission on every direct sale you generate. That's $39.80 in your pocket on every $199 sale. No tier system to climb. No volume requirements. The first sale pays the same rate as the thousandth sale.
An additional 10% from your network. Refer other people into the program, and you earn 10% on every sale they make. Build a team of promoters and you compound your earnings through their effort, not just yours.
A 90-day cookie window. Most programs give you 24 hours, maybe 7 days. We give you three months. If someone clicks your link today and buys three months from now, you still get paid.
Monthly payouts. No minimum threshold games. Earn a dollar, get a dollar. Earn ten thousand dollars, get ten thousand dollars. PayPal or bank transfer.
A real dashboard. Track every click, every conversion, every dollar in real time. See your network, watch your sales grow, watch the passive income build while you sleep.
A $50 coupon code to share with your audience. Your followers save $50 and pay $199 instead of $249. You still earn 20% of that $199. Everyone wins. Your audience gets a deal, you get a sale, we get a customer.
The Network Effect: Why This Compounds
The 10% network bonus is the part that gets us most excited, because it changes the shape of what's possible.
If you're an individual creator, you earn on every sale you drive. Good. Predictable.
But if you bring three other affiliates into the program, like a friend who runs a podcast, a colleague who writes a newsletter, a community leader in your industry, you now earn 10% on every sale they make. Their work becomes a passive revenue stream for you, while they still earn their full 20%. Nobody loses. Everyone gains.
Now imagine those three affiliates each bring in three more affiliates. Now imagine some of those people are great at it.
That's what we mean by a real revenue share. Your effort builds an asset. That asset keeps producing while you sleep, while you travel, while you focus on the next project. The dashboard tells you exactly where every dollar came from, so you always know what's working.
What This Looks Like in Real Numbers
We're engineers, so let's put numbers on it. Here's a scenario straight from the affiliate portal.
You make 76 direct sales at $199 each. At 20% commission ($39.80 per sale), that's $3,024.80 in direct commissions.
You invite 7 affiliates into your network. Between them, they generate 182 sales. At 10% network commission ($19.90 per sale), that's $3,621.80 in network commissions that land in your account without you making a single additional sale yourself.
Total monthly earnings: $6,646.60.
That's not a hypothetical ceiling. That's 76 sales across a month, roughly 2-3 per day, and a small team of affiliates doing the same. Scale any of those numbers up and the math keeps compounding.
Annualize it and you're looking at nearly $80,000 a year from a combination of your own referrals and a modest network. No inventory, no customer support, no product development. Just sharing a product you already use with people who need it.
The math is real. The product converts because it's genuinely useful. And the audience for it, privacy-conscious professionals, productivity-focused creators, anyone tired of cloud subscriptions, is growing. Not shrinking.
Why This Is the Side Hustle of the Moment
Take stock of where we are right now.
AI is reshaping every industry. Privacy concerns are at an all-time high. There's a new lawsuit about AI surveillance practically every week. The work-from-anywhere economy is permanent. People are actively looking for additional income streams that don't require quitting their day job, building inventory, or learning a new trade from scratch.
A great affiliate program, attached to a great product, in a category that's exploding, with a 90-day cookie and 30% combined commission potential. That kind of opportunity doesn't come along often.
You're not selling drop-shipped junk. You're not pushing a course about how to sell courses. You're recommending a tool that you yourself can use, that solves a real problem, that respects the people who buy it, built by engineers who put their names on it.
The Deal We're Offering You
You worry about your audience. You worry about the channels you're best at, whether that's writing, video, podcasting, newsletters, communities, or one-on-one recommendations to clients. You worry about being authentic, sharing honestly, putting your link where it belongs.
We'll worry about everything else. We'll keep building software that makes people more productive without compromising their privacy. We'll keep shipping updates. We'll keep handling support, payments, infrastructure, all of the engineering. We'll keep building the dashboards and tools you need to track your earnings.
You promote. We deliver. The revenue gets shared.
That's the whole deal.
A Final Word From Us
We're excited about this. Genuinely. Not in a marketing way.
We built this affiliate program because we wanted the people who help TypeSay grow to actually share in that growth. We wanted the early believers, the recommenders, the writers, the creators, the consultants who hand our software to their clients. We wanted all of them to make real money for the real value they bring.
If you're looking for a way to add an income stream to your portfolio without selling your soul, without pushing something you don't believe in, without a course or a webinar or a "system" that costs money to learn, this is one of the cleanest opportunities you'll find right now.
Join us. Promote a great product to people who genuinely need it. Get paid fairly. Build a network. Stack passive income. And know that, for once, you're participating in the upside of the tech revolution instead of just generating value for somebody else's quarterly report.
You generated the value. This time, you get paid for it.
The TypeSay Affiliate Program pays 20% on every direct sale, plus 10% on every sale from affiliates you invite. 90-day cookie. Monthly payouts. No minimums. Join now →