Who builds VoicePad?

VoicePad is built by **Alex (Bogdan-Alexandru Raducu)** — a Romanian-German entrepreneur, self-taught developer, and master bicycle mechanic based in Filderstadt, Germany. **The origin story:** Alex spends his days repairing bikes at Zweirad Stadler in Filderstadt. His hands are usually covered in grease. Typing emails between repairs is impractical — but he needed to take notes constantly: parts ordering, customer specs, repair details, project tracking. He tried existing dictation apps. They all needed internet. They all sent audio to someone else's servers. None of them worked well in a noisy workshop. And as a privacy-conscious European, he didn't want his voice notes living on someone else's cloud. So he taught himself to code at 2 AM, learning from YouTube the way he'd learned bike repair years before. He built the first version of VoicePad (originally called HörMal) for himself. It worked. He kept improving it. VoicePad is what happened when a mechanic who wouldn't accept "good enough" decided to build the dictation app he wanted to exist. **The philosophy:** - **Functionality over appearances.** German precision, Romanian creativity. - **Privacy by default, not opt-in.** Your voice is yours. - **One-time purchase, not subscription.** You own it. - **Built by a user, for users.** Every feature exists because Alex hit the same problem. **Where to find Alex:** - Email: alex@voicepad.tech — every message is personally read and answered - Public roadmap: [voicepad-tech.productlift.dev/t/roadmap](https://voicepad-tech.productlift.dev/t/roadmap) - Changelog: [voicepad-tech.productlift.dev/t/changelog](https://voicepad-tech.productlift.dev/t/changelog) **Why this matters to you:** You're not buying software from a faceless company funded by venture capitalists who need you to churn through subscriptions. You're supporting one person who built a product because he needed it, prices it fairly because he respects you, and reads your emails because he gives a damn. That's the whole story. VoicePad ships because Alex ships. Slowly, deliberately, on a real product timeline — not a quarterly investor schedule.