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Heroku apps are quick to deploy and quicker to forget the reasoning behind. Typally works at the keyboard level, so anywhere Heroku accepts typing, it accepts your voice instead.
From the people who build Typally. If Heroku's own option covers your use, use it — this page will tell you when it does.None. App descriptions and config are typed.
Config vars accumulate, add-ons are attached and forgotten, and dynos are scaled for a reason that made sense during a launch. None of it is self-documenting, and the bill is what eventually prompts the questions.
In practice people use it for: App and pipeline documentation, config var notes in a README, release descriptions, and support cases.
Setup happens once, outside Heroku, and then applies to every program on the machine:
Install, sign in, and it waits in the tray.
Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Heroku before starting.
Nothing truncates part-way through.
Never dictate a config var value — those are secrets, and audio goes to a transcription service.
Typally types into your editor and the Heroku dashboard equally, so the documentation lands in the repository where it belongs rather than a dashboard nobody reads. One firm rule: describe what a variable is for, never speak what it contains.
A team documents what each of its twenty-two config vars is for, spoken into the repository README in fifteen minutes. Six are unused and removed, two of which were credentials nobody had rotated.
Keep a documented list of what each config var is for in the repository. The dashboard shows names and values, never purpose.
Never dictate a config var value — those are secrets, and audio goes to a transcription service.
No. The dashboard and CLI are typed.
No. Never speak a credential or secret through a cloud transcription service.
In the repository, beside the code, where it is version controlled.
Start on the free plan (100 minutes a month, no card). Pro lifts the cap and adds meeting notes for $7.99/month.
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