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Show HN: Cursor – An AI Email Companion

4 points by mntruell 5y ago

Hey HN! I built https://cursor.so/, a chrome extension to help you write email blazingly fast. Cursor has three key features 1) describe your email and have an AI write a draft for you 2) one-click to shorten your email and 3) highlight text to change its tone (make it more formal/casual/friendly). I hope that Cursor can make writing email more easy and fun for some of you :). Happy to chat about the AI or dev stack behind the product. Let me know if you have any questions/comments/feature requests!

mritchie712 5y ago
Why isn't there a live demo?
- mntruell 5y ago
  Right now, I'm letting people off the waitlist a few at a time. Want to make sure the product is the best it can be (no bugs, features adding tons of value) before I open it up to everyone. If you say you came from HN, I'll take you off the waitlist asap.
thenaturalist 5y ago
Hey, this looks quite interesting, and something I'd take a serious look at to just get my time back when it comes to emails. First thoughts: 1. How much training does this need to be considered functional? I.e. I see your example GIF of writing two sentences and out comes a formal Cursor email. Looks great, but that goes beyond NLP, there is context in the output I do not see in the input. So what would need to happen to get to the GIF if I start from scratch? 2. Is there any kind of confidence score that indicates the estimated quality of the output? Reason here is that communication is still a pareto system for me: There might be occassions where it's delicate to communicate correctly, and messing up that one time might have disproportionate effects. Granted, I'd reread an email in such a case, but any visual cue as to how likely I should be rereading an output would bring peace of mind. In any case, congrats on shipping, and best of luck for the next steps!
tedmiston 5y ago
Waitlists should go into general not Show HN. > Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread. > Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
- mntruell 5y ago
  Gotcha! Will resubmit to general later.

4 points by mntruell 5y ago

mritchie712 5y ago

Why isn't there a live demo?

mntruell 5y ago
Right now, I'm letting people off the waitlist a few at a time. Want to make sure the product is the best it can be (no bugs, features adding tons of value) before I open it up to everyone. If you say you came from HN, I'll take you off the waitlist asap.

thenaturalist 5y ago

Hey, this looks quite interesting, and something I'd take a serious look at to just get my time back when it comes to emails. First thoughts: 1. How much training does this need to be considered functional? I.e. I see your example GIF of writing two sentences and out comes a formal Cursor email. Looks great, but that goes beyond NLP, there is context in the output I do not see in the input. So what would need to happen to get to the GIF if I start from scratch? 2. Is there any kind of confidence score that indicates the estimated quality of the output? Reason here is that communication is still a pareto system for me: There might be occassions where it's delicate to communicate correctly, and messing up that one time might have disproportionate effects. Granted, I'd reread an email in such a case, but any visual cue as to how likely I should be rereading an output would bring peace of mind. In any case, congrats on shipping, and best of luck for the next steps!

tedmiston 5y ago

Waitlists should go into general not Show HN. > Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread. > Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

mntruell 5y ago
Gotcha! Will resubmit to general later.