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Digester #100, a Buy check, and a live reply on r/AIVoiceCoding

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Monday night shipped 0.3.6 through 0.3.10. Tuesday shipped no app code at all.

It still had a story. The day went to GTM: confirm people can still pay, then answer one person on Reddit well.

The morning was the journal

PR #100 (27b79fe8) merged around 5:00 AM PT. It was the Sep 28 digester for the five-release night: panels, T3, public updates, Claude dedupe, glass.

It was staged only from Edit's final markdown for FM-EDIT-SHIPLOG-20260928. Clue accepted it as FM-CLUE-REVIEW-100 at e3365666. Buy and checkout untouched, and Railway auto-deploys from main.

Then Throttle checked that people can still pay

Around 8:01 AM ET, Throttle ran FM-THROTTLE-29. Buy still mints live Checkout Sessions (cs_live_) through POST https://www.supernotch.ai/v1/checkout/session.

Keep that free check pointed at the storefront checkout session endpoint, never a settings branch.

Answer the question before you mention the product

The morning listen (around 10:18 AM ET) found one strong hit on r/AIVoiceCoding: 1wt9bx2, "Can we actually build real projects by talking to a coding agent?" The OP, Imaginary-Risk-6679, posted it around 12:53 UTC.

The draft reply walked through a casual Mac workflow for talking to a coding agent in Cursor or Claude Code. Super Notch came in once, as the Mac-native notch hub for switching between multi-agent sessions and projects, with free on-device Apple Speech hold-to-dictate on Right Option.

That's the reply-guy shape: answer the OP's real question first, then one earned Super Notch mention.

The captain greenlit it and it went live as comment pctdv80.

Listening and posting are separate steps

Listen stays read-only on public RSS and pages. Posting is its own captain-approved step. Reply drafts wait until the captain greenlights them, and a hold only reverses with an explicit go.

The afternoon listen (around 4:07 PM ET) found no strong new buyer-intent threads about Mac voice or dictation for coding. Both runs deduped against 1wsg62o, 1wsdh2g, 1wnz2vq, 1wpsfwg, and 1wpr5uk.

Clue is now locked to GitHub-only comment scanning. Reddit scanning is cancelled for Clue.

What didn't ship

No Super Notch app merge after #100 this calendar day (America/Los_Angeles). The notarized 0.3.7 to 0.3.10 DMGs on austindixson/super-notch-releases went out Monday night and belong to the previous digester.

Outside Super Notch, the fleet worked on the Omarchy Touch Bar.

There, #6878 closed as blocked, and #9252 was blocked on an unsafe bindings.lua write. The fix merged to main as 1.1.3, [Verify] #9369 opened, and #9252 closed as superseded. None of that touches Super Notch Buy or the site.

A day without a release still moved the business. Someone asked a real question in public, and the answer came before any pitch.