What If Your Typewriter Gave You a Menu Before You Write?

What if your first interaction with an AI writing partner didn't force you in front of a camera or show you a blank page? In this live build-in-public session, I feed early user feedback into my Typewriter project using Gemini 3.8 Flash and the Antigravity IDE. Watching the autonomous system ingest an interview, extract 12 core claims, challenge them against evidence, and produce a CueCam presentation deck plus concept art revealed a major insight: video provides great clarity for seasoned creators, but creates massive friction for newcomers. Instead of forcing everyone to record immediately, what if the first interview ended with a menu of potential artifacts—a brief, storyboard, evocative visual, article draft, or presentation deck? Here is how we turn that first-mile experience into pure creative momentum. Chapters 0:00 Building in Public: Gemini 3.8 Flash & Antigravity IDE 1:09 Feeding User Feedback into Typewriter 1:49 Generating the Presentation Deck & Concept Art 2:56 The First-Mile Feeling: Clarity, Power, and Relief 4:04 How the Autonomous Substrate & Rules Execute 5:51 The Problem with Video First: High Friction for New Users 7:05 Live Walkthrough of the Generated Deck 8:16 Moving from Camera Performance to Structured Artifacts 9:29 The Straw Man Proposal: A First-Mile Artifact Menu 10:36 Closing the Loop: From Choice to Follow-on Writing Typewriter on GitHub: https://github.com/duhring/typewriter CueCam Presenter: https://cuecam-presenter.com/ Substack article: https://johnduhring.substack.com/p/wh...