Altrun
Select text on any page, pick a voice, and get a post that sounds like you wrote it.
Altrun is a Chrome extension and web app for solo creators and founders. Highlight text on any web page, pick a platform and one of your captured voices, and it drafts a post that sounds like you. Every draft shows a voice-match score and flags phrases that read as machine-written. It is in private build.
- Phase 0 Foundations: done
- Phase 0.5 UX and design system: done
- Phase 1 Engine and accounts: done
- Phase 2 Voices: done
- Phase 3 Content workflow: in progress
- Phase 4 Learn from edits: to do
- Phase 5 Launch: to do
- Phase 6 Schedule and publish: to do
- Phase 7 Feedback loop: to do
- Phase 8 Bot channels: to do
// The problem
Why it exists
Writing tools start you at a blank box, in a different tab from the thing you were reading. Most of them promise to sound like you. None of them show you how close they got.
Built for: Solo creators and founders who post on LinkedIn, X, Threads or Substack.
- clicks from any page to a draft
- 2clicks from any page to a draft
- from install to first post
- 60sfrom install to first post
- networks at launch
- 4networks at launch
Design targets, not results. Results go in the log.
// Procedure
How it works
STEP 01
Select
Highlight a paragraph, a post or a whole thread on any page.
STEP 02
Pick
Choose where it's going and which of your voices should write it.
STEP 03
Compare
Two or three labelled drafts stream in, each with a voice-match score.
STEP 04
Fix and insert
Flagged phrases come with a reason and a fix. One click puts the post in the composer.
// Guardrails
The rules it ships with
- No automation on any network. It reads what you select and writes only after you click.
- Voices come from posts you paste or export yourself, never from a background crawl.
- A side panel and five web pages. No lead databases, no outreach sequences.
- Choices over re-rolls: every request returns two or three drafts to pick from.
// Flight plan
Phases 0 to 8, now on 3
- Phase 0 Foundations: done
- Phase 0.5 UX and design system: done
- Phase 1 Engine and accounts: done
- Phase 2 Voices: done
- Phase 3 Content workflow: in progress
- Phase 4 Learn from edits: to do
- Phase 5 Launch: to do
- Phase 6 Schedule and publish: to do
- Phase 7 Feedback loop: to do
- Phase 8 Bot channels: to do
✓ done · P0
Foundations
Monorepo, CI, nine decision records
✓ done · P0.5
UX and design system
Core flows, prototypes, component library
✓ done · P1
Engine and accounts
Sign in on web and extension, first post from a selection
✓ done · P2
Voices
Capture and manage voices, extension at full parity
▶ now · P3
Content workflow
Library, drafts with versions, idea inbox, batch generate
○ queued · P4
Learn from edits
Voices improve from the changes you make
○ queued · P5
Launch
Landing page, billing, Chrome Web Store
○ queued · P6
Schedule and publish
Calendar and direct publishing through official APIs
○ queued · P7
Feedback loop
Engagement data feeds back into drafting
○ queued · P8
Bot channels
Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp and email
// Mission log
What's happened so far
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Altrun phase 3 starts: the library
Drafts now keep versions. A focus editor autosaves and lets you step back through history. Ideas and batches have tables in the database.
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Altrun phase 2 closed: voices
Voices can be built from a LinkedIn export or a list of links, with traits you can edit. The extension gained a comment helper and one-click insert into the composer.
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The Chrome extension writes from a highlight
Select text on any page and the side panel turns it into a post. Comment suggestions that sound machine-made are filtered out before you see them.
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Altrun web app: sign in, streamed drafts
Accounts, a dashboard and drafts that stream in as they're written. Each user's voices, history and usage are scoped to them in the database.
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Generation engine ported and tested
Providers, prompts and platform rules moved into one tested package, with an audit stage that points at the phrases that give a draft away.
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Altrun roadmap approved
Eight phases, each a working slice on web and extension together. Foundations and the design system closed the same day.
// Transmissions
Join the Altrun beta list
Invites go out in small batches when Altrun reaches launch. You'll also get one email at each stage change. Nothing else.