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Quickly – Giving email a mind of its own [video]
- madospace 12y agoIn short `Transform emails to Business actions` in one click
- subho007 12y agoLooks good, when will it be available for public beta?
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agoThanks. Public beta is about 1 week away. We are ironing out the edges right now, and trying to add some more useful stuff in addition to what you see in the video.
- iamademar 12y agoawesome!
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agoThanks iamademar.
- ahmed_zain 12y agoRequest/suggestion: Can you add Producteev to the list of apps?
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agoProducteev is in the list of 2nd tier right now. Will surely keep it near the top of the list in that tier :-)
- pjc50 12y agoApp running inside gmail? How does that work? Are there more of these things? Can I write my own?
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agoWell, this is a Chrome plugin. And yes you can write your own. Check out https://developers.google.com/gmail/ https://developers.google.com/gmail/ and http://gmailblog.blogspot.in/2010/02/gmail-chrome-extensions.html http://gmailblog.blogspot.in/2010/02/gmail-chrome-extensions...
- pgt 12y agoCool. After watching the video, I understand pg's post about founder accents better: http://paulgraham.com/accents.html http://paulgraham.com/accents.html I can understand you, but I had to focus on it, instead of focusing on your product. The screencast is fine, although long. Structure the benefits and features you want to communicate and outline these before diving into the "how". Script the audio. Don't wait for the sync to Asana.
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agoThanks, I have read pg's post and quite agree with it. I have tried to keep the voice as clear as possible but the Indian accent just pops up :-) Your suggestions are really useful. I will try to list out the benefits we have in mind on the website as well as write a post about it.
- lukeholder 12y agoI see you are needing some design help on the modal windows etc. Are you interested in a designer coming on board? my email is in my HN profile ;)
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agogreat. Yes, we are trying to connect with designers. Will mail you.
- jmathai 12y agoMy initial thought was how most email enhancement ideas actually create more work than they save in the long run. That was until I saw the demo. Looks like this could be a tremendous time saver. Kudos on the work.
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agoThanks jmathai. We believe that everything that can be delegated to programs, should be.
- ar7hur 12y agoCool project. If I understand, it learns what emails mean and what actions should be triggered across all users. So I guess it must store my emails and actions somewhere, to participate to this across-the-board learning. I wonder if users will be concerned about this.
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agoGood point. In fact, we are concerned about that quite a bit - so much so that we will soon be releasing details of how reconstructing somebody's email is close to impossible, even by the Quickly team. Basically, we are storing only patterns, not email content directly.
- alphapapa 12y agoYou're expecting people to take your word for it. Even if you're telling the truth, when your security is compromised, so are all your users' email, because you have full access to it. Bottom line: Yet another "web 2.x", proprietary, "beta," SaaS, subscription, third-party, unrestricted-privacy-compromising tool without a business model that might be around for a few years before being bought and ruined or going bankrupt. One would have to be nuts to trust it and to build one's business processes around it. And why? Seriously, it could be done client-side without compromising account credentials or email privacy in a bit of Perl or Python, maybe a browser extension, and throw in some Bayesian analysis to reduce the need for manual templating and scraping. A few hours in Emacs/gnus/etc and no need to hand over ALL OF MY EMAIL to yet another "but we're only storing your patterns!" third-party web site. Someday people will wake up to the insanity and stop trusting these ephemeral convenience services. The question is, will it happen naturally, or will it take more massive security/privacy breaches before people stop being so lazy and nai...I mean, trusting?
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agoalphapapa, your points are indeed valid. And your alternative tech suggestions are quite close to what we are doing, while still protecting our code. Just hold on till we divulge more details :-)
- michaelmior 12y agoLooks pretty cool. I'd love to see a video with the new UI shown in the screenshots on the home page.
- madospace 12y agoThanks michaelmior, We are working on it. Will be out soon
- wodenokoto 12y agoThis is really cool. I am currently studying NLP and ML and these are the kind of things I want to build to make the world a better place. I would love to read a post about the kinds of classifiers and features you use for this service.
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agoThanks wodenokoto, While we cannot share complete details of the technology, we do plan to have a beginner's post on how we have leveraged these technologies.
- Synergyse 12y agoLooks great, as a team that lives inside Gmail and Asana this could be very useful for us.
- madospace 12y agoThanks Synergyse, We are planning to release soon, Love to get your feedback.
- jkh123 12y agoSo, i a assume the collected Patterns will then be quickly's proprietary knowledge. Right?
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agopretty much :-) However, if u wish to opt out of the service, the data - which can be mapped to the user, will also be deleted. The primary ownership belongs to the users.
- hellbanner 12y agoHEY. I signed up with a gmail address that uses an alias for my from:. You sent me a "hi welcome thanks for signing up" email that included a different alias I've used online before. How did you associate this data? I signed up as <foo>+quickly@gmail.com .. never used that address before. Please disclose what dataset you used to associate my account with the name you greeted me with.
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agoHey Hellbanner, thats a no-brainer. I was just using Rapportive - sure you have heard of it :-) PS: I just checked. You have also provided your name. :-)
- byoung2 12y agoLooks interesting...I noticed the task creation examples in the video all started with "Can you please...". How good is the parser at picking up implied requests. For example, where I work, requests more likely look something like "We should look at improving the caching layer" or "prod is hanging". Also, what are you thinking for pricing?
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agoRight byoung, the examples do show similar statements. We are fairly good at picking up implied requests right now, but I wouldn't call it brilliant yet. Quickly is still learning :-) I hope by the time we release, we will be fairly good to cover most of the use cases.
- dang 12y agoLooks interesting, but we took "Show HN" out of the title since Show HNs are for things that you've made that other people can play with. So a video isn't a Show HN unless, of course, the video itself is the product. When the software is ready for people to try out, this will make a great Show HN. Good luck with the work!
- utkarsh_apoorva 12y agoThanks dang. Sorry we have not been very active on posting to HN, just a consumer of information. It seems we got that part of the title wrong.
- dang 12y agoNo worries! But please do a Show HN when the product reaches that stage.
- ansimionescu 12y agoProbably should change the default background of the theme http://startbootstrap.com/landing-page http://startbootstrap.com/landing-page