Lumin Shuts Down, SpeakTab Makes Music Accessible, and Good Vibes Is Coming
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Lumin Shuts Down, SpeakTab Makes Music Accessible, and Good Vibes Is Coming

A2ElementaryNovember 12, 202656 min
  • Technology

Lumin, the voice-first email app built for blind users, is shutting down. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece look at why, then meet Eden Brown, who used vibe coding to build SpeakTab, an accessible music and guitar tab reader. Lumin stops working on 1 December 2026, and the team says competition from ChatGPT and other big AI platforms made it impossible to sustain. Steven and Shaun replay part of their September chat with founder Sriram Ganesh and ask some hard questions. Did launching free make charging later impossible? How does a small specialist app get noticed when AI tools keep...

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Coming up the demise of Lumen and yes we're going to talk vibe coding and it's allowed! This is DoubleTac where blind people talk tack. Here's Steven Scott and Sean Preece. Ahhhh Sean Preece how are you my friend? I'm freezing Steven Scott.

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I am freezing in this shed. I've turned the heating on. heating is on, it's come to that time of year. Well done, yes. It has to be done, has to be done. I must admit, same here, you know, I had to remind myself how to use a thermostat. I have to say with LADA Plus though, terrible.

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Absolutely awful. I still haven't got it. Have I mentioned that before? No, I have to say we're at the risk of repeating ourselves endlessly with these statements because you know, you haven't got that and I can't seem to be able to access heat in

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