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by baydinalex 10y ago
Sort of true, in the sense that the product isn't separately trained for sales emails vs personal emails vs internal business emails, etc. But the calculations we chose don't provide a lot of constraints, and the variances were no
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by baydinalex 10y ago
Declaring that somebody is falsely claiming to use ML without looking at their product is a bit irresponsible ;) The positivity, subjectivity, and politeness calculations are all outputs from neural networks, and the overall likelihood is c
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by baydinalex 10y ago
Thanks, Borski! We're really excited about the new tools - it's been a ton of fun figuring out how to combine the machine learning algorithms to get them to spit out actionable advice, figuring out how to make them run fast in Gma
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Why I'm answering customer support email on Christmas Day(medium.com)
9 points by baydinalex 11y ago|0 comments
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by baydinalex 12y ago
It's seed funding. The seed funding ecosystem is a vortex of death in Boston. We (Boomerang) moved to San Francisco after going 0/34 with Boston investors. It took less than 30 days to have our full round complete after we got her
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by baydinalex 12y ago
Of course! It's one of my favorite parts of the company story! http://baydin.com/blog/2010/10/the-100k-taxi-ride/
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by baydinalex 12y ago
Having raised our seed round in part by giving Dave McClure a ride to his mechanic, I think this is a great idea!
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by baydinalex 13y ago
Yup. I wrote a version to do this when Fred Wilson requested it a little over a year ago and I realized I needed it too: https://script.google.com/d/1B8YC4D7KT7pZKXyq3TkfJUJPv1mmjZj... Matt Galligan and I put together
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by baydinalex 13y ago
Way back when we were just starting to think about Baydin, Xobni was one of the models for how we could build a company based on an email plugin. Their tech was so cool -- we'd never seen anything like it. Then Bill Gates demoed Xobni
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Creating a Quality Mobile Demo Video for $87 / Intern’s Guide to a Free Manicure(baydin.com)
2 points by baydinalex 13y ago|0 comments
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by baydinalex 13y ago
This is awesome news. We got 3 top-flight interns from InternMatch this year, so I can't wait to start hiring full time this way.
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by baydinalex 14y ago
I love it. For decades, my flame war offensives against the evil crusaders of Emacs have stalled out against their Maginot Line of "But Emacs can be your mail client too!" This is like a Blitzkrieg of flame war glory. PARIS PREPARE TO BE MI
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by baydinalex 14y ago
A little late to the party here, but Boomerang doesn't do anything at all except for when you Boomerang something and when it's scheduled to be sent/returned. The rest of the time, it doesn't make any API calls.
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by baydinalex 14y ago
Inbox Pause is also quite a bit easier and less technical, I think! If you want to do this manually, the filter above will probably let stuff slip through on some percentage of accounts. We found "from:(*) label:inbox" to be the most reliab
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by baydinalex 14y ago
You might want to check out our core product, Boomerang. You just choose a date when you want to see an email again. It kicks the message into a label until that time, then brings it back to the top of your inbox, so you can reply when you'
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by baydinalex 14y ago
Can you send us an email as well? We tested on Lion before release this morning, and everything seemed OK on our end
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by baydinalex 14y ago
I think you're right about email as a protocol. There are a couple reasons I think we'll continue to read most of our messages, though: * If the automatic parser misfires on one out of 50 messages (a really hard threshold to hit, as we've l
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by baydinalex 14y ago
uh oh, that's not what's supposed to happen. Can you install other extensions? If so, please email us at support@baydin.com and we'll see if we can help out.
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by baydinalex 14y ago
awesome, thanks! we'd like to have the locations dialog remember your previous entries (and making your phone number one of those options is a great idea) in a future update.
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by baydinalex 14y ago
Should have put the code in the post title. Sorry about that! Use the invite code 'showhn' (no quotes) to skip the line :)
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by baydinalex 14y ago
cool, let us know how it works for you!
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by baydinalex 14y ago
Hahaha, I'm glad somebody noticed! We figured none of them would complain :)
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by baydinalex 15y ago
If security is a big concern and you like the MSDOS-in-the-cc-field interface for this sort of thing (I like a menu, datepicker, and natural language input, but I'm obviously biased!), check out http://www.bumper.cc . It's an open-source r
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by baydinalex 15y ago
nope, the uber just took a really long time to show up. :) we moved out to silicon valley (from Boston) in December, and had the round spoken for within a month. we just took our time doing the paperwork and announcement.
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by baydinalex 16y ago
If you think this one is bad, you should have seen the OLD demo video! We just added a paid subscription tier (pay-what-you-think-is-fair pricing) with the new launch, and a better demo is one of the things we'd love to spend money on.
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by baydinalex 16y ago
Yep, we use Google's new OAuth API. It lets you grant access for our servers to send mail on your behalf without us having to learn your Gmail password.
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Lessons learned: From 0 to 70,000 downloads in 30 days(baydin.com)
89 points by baydinalex 16y ago|7 comments