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Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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Post by daveFNbuck »

sarim wrote: post #16
neom wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're going to charge me a subscription instead of mining and selling (even abstract insights), I'm game. But first you have to promise you'll never mine and sell my inbox.

Mining and selling your Inbox data isn't our business strategy. We have a subscription-based pricing model and we'll turn that on soon (2 months).

When we ask for you to say "we will never mine and sell your inbox" and you instead say "mining and selling your inbox data isn't our business strategy," I hope you understand why that would make people nervous about using your product.

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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Post by sarim »

ohitsdom wrote: post #19

How does this differ from Google Inbox? I love Inbox, it has completely changed my email habits. Inbox seems to already solve everything Caspy has, but I could be missing something.

The goal of Caspy is to not just allow users to manage their Inboxes from anywhere in their browsers but to also help them build stronger relationships with Email contacts that they actually care about. It does a bunch of things (copy/pasting for the second time :P): 1. Which Emails are important and need a reply. 2. Which sent Emails require follow ups and what is the best time for a follow up. 3. Which contacts are important to you and which ones are drifting away and need to be reconnected with.

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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Post by jwr »

Anything that gets access to my E-mails and isn't an all-local app with local processing instantly raises a red flag. My E-mail is not something I want out there in public.

A quick glance at the page doesn't tell me if this thing processes my E-mail online, or locally, and what data gets shared where and with whom.

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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Post by inertial »

Not a big fan of getting my Inbox managed by AI. I've found AI products to be rather quirky & obstinate at respecting my preferences. Simple tasks require a "learning" before it can be done right. I prefer rules that are predictable.

I can afford to miss out on news feed because it got mis-categorized by AI, but can't take that risk with my Inbox.

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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Post by Roedou »

axyjo wrote: post #2

I'm worried that with another free product like this, we'll get another Unroll.me on our hands.

What happened to Unroll.me?

Edit: nm. This only happened this week, and I missed the news. Just Googled it and found out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/personal-data-...

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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Post by stevesearer »

sarim wrote: post #20
sarim wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mining and selling your Inbox data isn't our business strategy. We have a subscription-based pricing model and we'll turn that on soon (2 months).

@stevesearer Both of those points are there so that we could train our ML Model. But I fully understand people's concerns.

Yeah, I understand collecting data is a part of training your model but it could be worth explicitly saying that zero data (either personally identifiable or anonymized meta data or any data at all) will be sold or rented. And if a change to that policy happens, include in the language of the user agreement that it isn't retroactive and only applies to new accounts.

The vague language is what bothers people. Probably having very strong language in the opposite direction (that you will NEVER sell any data, and would shut down rather than sell it) would probably win you favor.

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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Post by ceocoder »

sarim wrote: post #16
neom wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're going to charge me a subscription instead of mining and selling (even abstract insights), I'm game. But first you have to promise you'll never mine and sell my inbox.

Mining and selling your Inbox data isn't our business strategy. We have a subscription-based pricing model and we'll turn that on soon (2 months).

With all due respect "mining and selling your Inbox data isn't our business strategy" is not the same as "we will never ever ever ever sell or mine your Inbox data". My inbox is too precious for any potential loopholes.

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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Post by jtmcmc »

madamelic wrote: post #12
wimgz wrote: post #10

Seems nice but I don't get where the AI is?

It is only AI to a layperson. It seems like the "AI" is that it "learns" what emails you send replies to. If it wants to be AI and useful, it should learn how to reply to those emails. This is just another Chrome extension (useful but it doesn't clear my bar of AI)

I mean it's totally AI in that it's an example of weak AI or more precisely it's a type of machine learning. Neither it or anything else we have is any other type of AI, however.
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