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by vedhsaka 1y ago
April | https://www.tryapril.com | San Francisco /Gurgaon, India | ONSITE | Full-time Roles: 1. Head of Growth (SF) 2. Senior Software Engineer (Gurgaon, India) We're building voice-first AI executive assist
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Everything you've been told about burnout is wrong(substack.com)
6 points by vedhsaka 1y ago|1 comments
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
Personally I won't do that as LLM's way of judging an unimportant email vs my judgement is different - we are still working on evolving that but again email is so different for different people that it will need a lot of learning.
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
Sure, the data stored are (User's relation to the sender) + tone + way of writing. None of the email's actual content is/will be stored (Goes against gmail's compliance)
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
Means April will not send emails even if you dictate the email and ask it to send it. In safe mode, it will not have access to tool calls which are related to send email, move to trash.
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
Yeah, It does. We mentioned only few of the things in the demo or else it would have been very long. Apart from hard delete, create /edit labels - all operations can be done through April. Create/edit/delete draft are very co
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
Point taken - Safe mode goes out this week.
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
You can - we have seen cases where people have deleted 1600 emails in one voice session. But as the pagination happens - it will be in batches, read/delete everything. We have to limit gmail's rate limits
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
That happens now - before Send/Delete it will ask for confirmation.
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
Not as of now.
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
That would be supercool - but not the focus point right now. Though I totally see myself using it.
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
Sorry for the bad experience. It is because of the sudden traffic. Looking at it.
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
Yes Yes! The MCP hackathon was our way in. Thank you, really appreciate the support.
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
I think the car dent story originally came from - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008239 . As I clarified there - the dent happened before the April demo, during hackathon stress while taking out the car from parking
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
Valid concern - April does not write emails for you unless you specifically ask for it. Users usually dictate what they want to reply. But do you think a 'safe mode' - where April does only non destructive operation like read&#x2F
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
Got it - makes sense. The laundry example is perfect. Moments where your hands are tied or when you want screen-free time
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
Yeah - April learns how you speak/correct your emails - it picks up your writing patterns and keeps evolving. The more you use it, the more it sounds like you rather than generic AI.
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
(cofounder here) Fair concern - cognitive distraction is real. We see it more like taking a phone call while driving (which people already do). We're purposely keeping interactions simple to make sure features aren't too distracti
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
(cofounder here) Honestly, we were hoping Gemini would nail this so we wouldn't have to build it ourselves, but here we are. The main difference is we're not bounded by Google's ecosystem - we're starting with Gmail but
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
Here is the submission of the hackathon which got us YC interview - https://youtu.be/6_Y_Xoj3q5A
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
I love your name, coincidentally the app mentioned here is called April - its voice only. But for email companies - Superhuman is the most successful one. Other solution which provide different features include Airmail, Sanebox, Mail0 to ne
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by vedhsaka 1y ago
We didn't expect this will come on hackernews. But more on this - April is voice first app so you dont have to see/use your phone. Crash was because of the panic - we were getting late and I reversed the car while taking a turn an
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My Two Lives as a Programmer(maxmynter.com)
1 points by vedhsaka 1y ago|0 comments
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How to break the 'AI hype cycle'(mitsloan.mit.edu)
42 points by vedhsaka 1y ago|18 comments
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OpenAI says ChatGPT users send over 2.5B prompts every day(theverge.com)
13 points by vedhsaka 1y ago|13 comments
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Gen Z is right about the job hunt–it is worse than it was for millennials(msn.com)
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