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Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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Post by davidyapdy »

rankam wrote: post #38
davidyapdy wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! We've updated it!

The landing page copy is still really bad - "Whenever Audrey do not understand your request, you can teach it so that it can understand you the next time." How am I supposed to trust that you are capable of building an AI when you can't get basic grammar correct? Don't build a marketing page when you're bad at marketing :) Edit: Just to clarify - I mean that the poor grammar is likely due to that fact that English pr…

Awwww, thanks. We are kidnapping an English professor right now to do the job. You folks deserve high-quality material and we have fail to deliver it. We are terribly sorry and will improve.

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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Post by rankam »

davidyapdy wrote: post #41
rankam wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The landing page copy is still really bad - "Whenever Audrey do not understand your request, you can teach it so that it can understand you the next time." How am I supposed to trust that you are capable of building an AI when you can't get basic grammar correct? Don't build a marketing page when you're bad at marketing :) Edit: Just to clarify - I mean that the poor grammar is likely due to that fact that English pr…

Awwww, thanks. We are kidnapping an English professor right now to do the job. You folks deserve high-quality material and we have fail to deliver it. We are terribly sorry and will improve.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but if you are, please know that my comment wasn't meant to minimize your accomplishment of building and releasing an app. I honestly want you to succeed and think it would be sad if that opportunity never presented itself simply because of poor grammar on a landing page.

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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Post by davidyapdy »

rankam wrote: post #38
davidyapdy wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! We've updated it!

The landing page copy is still really bad - "Whenever Audrey do not understand your request, you can teach it so that it can understand you the next time." How am I supposed to trust that you are capable of building an AI when you can't get basic grammar correct? Don't build a marketing page when you're bad at marketing :) Edit: Just to clarify - I mean that the poor grammar is likely due to that fact that English pr…

No no. I really do appreciate your comment. We're getting a person who is going to run through the landing page copy as soon as possible.

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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Post by Raphael »

davidyapdy wrote: post #22

I noticed that we made a mistake not having it proofread. We're dragging someone here to proofread and make those correction. But in the same time, I'm thankful that the community here is correcting it! It's Audrey in real life!

"every day" is 2 words in your case.

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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Post by radiorental »

davidyapdy wrote: post #34
radiorental wrote: post #32

For a moment I thought the original Audrey assistant was reborn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3Com_Audrey

We had been told that a several time and we immediately check if we infringed anything. Turns out, we are clear :) Good ol times.

I was at 3Com at that time. Awesome product, bad timing.

Good luck with yours!

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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Post by ianmcgowan »

bshimmin wrote: post #19
portmanteaufu wrote: post #4

I hope this is helpful feedback: * There are several small typos on the page ("How does it works?") that distract from its content. * The testimonials strike me as all having the same writer's voice. * What appears to set "Audrey" aside from, say, Alexa is the promise that you can take a moment to train the AI when it misunderstands you. That's a great feature; I can tell Alexa that she was wrong (via the app), but t…

The testimonials strike me as all having the same writer's voice. Someone needs to come up with a service that generates authentic-sounding testimonials, complete with convincing headshots.

"Sincerity is the key to success. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made"

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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Post by anonymous344 »

davidyapdy wrote: post #39
uladzislau wrote: post #36

"Request accesss". How do I know you're just not running some sort of marketing study/proof of demand?

We don't play a fool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDlAqhulJmw&t=1s

Thank you for the video!

My 5 cents: Please make the small x (close button) to something else, like swipe to up to close the dialog. Small x is not good gui for mobile phone apps.

Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

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Post by EGreg »

cel1ne wrote: post #28
gtt wrote: post #17

On a slightly related note, I, personally, noticed that I don't want to get things done. Most of the things, at least. After working GTD style I feel happier and more productive, but usually not closer to my goals. I found, that failing do to most of the things is bearable, as long as I'm keep doing things that matter. I'm still using GTD stuff, but just to "better forget", to unload working memory.

> I don't want to get things done Exactly. This is a really, really difficult and essential observation to make. Humans are built to procrastinate because it conserves energy. Do an experiment: Sit down and start doing what you are supposed to do. If you're not able to work or start, don't find excuses. Don't go looking for physical reasons like "Hungry", "Cold", "Tired". Don't procrastinate. Don't walk around. Don't…

I find that the problem is often the context switching.

To get things done, I often have to take a step back and make a list of things that need to get done. This is the top-down brainstorming, that gets me more in the mood. I can do this when I'm not working, to get me thinking about the problem.

Then when the time comes for working, you choose the easiest or shortest task and start on it. The "McDonalds theory" as stated on phpjs is that you can do a shitty job on your first iteration as long as you get it done. When you did it, or usually even as you are working, you have the urge to improve it. And that's where the excitement and emotional investment comes.

Russians have an expression for this: Appetite comes when you start eating.

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