Federico Thoughts

Toastmasters Timer loves ChatGPT Some of you might already know me as the creator of the most popular Toastmasters Timer on the Play Store — a project that started as a simple club experiment and evolved into a global tool thanks to AI collaboration. Toastmasters Timer 🌱 How It All Began Back in the cold winter of 2018, my former Toastmasters club in Łódź, Poland — The Leader Ship Toastmasters — was struggling to fill meeting roles. Many members were sick, absent, or overcommitted at work. Each of us had to cover multiple roles per meeting: speaker, timer, Table Topics master, and more. It was exhausting. What if the timer role could be automated? I walked around my small room on Piotrkowska Street, opened my laptop, and began coding a simple web app. After three nights of work, I had a working Progressive Web App that changed colors automatically, beeped at the right times, and even supported a custom speech setup. At that Thursday’s meeting, no one had volunteered as timer. So, I...