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Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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

The AI makes the following desicions: 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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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)

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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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)

^^

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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

Don't worry axyjo, its free for early users but we'll turn on pricing soon.

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.

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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How is this AI? Snooze, Reply-to and mute emails? Wow, needs hella brain for that. If-Statements are not AI. The title is misleading.

I think it's doing a little more than that: "Caspy’s AI learns from your email history to figure out what types of emails you send replies to. With that knowledge, it will alert you only when an email needs a reply."

But that's hardly AI. I think even Thunderbird does this, learns that emails I click links in or reply to are important and flag them as such.

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't worry axyjo, its free for early users but we'll turn on pricing soon.

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).

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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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).

I think what is making people nervous would be something like this phrase from your privacy policy:

>We may collect other information that cannot be readily used to identify you, such as (for example) your Email Meta Data and IP address of your computer.

You make clear earlier that you will not sell or rent personally identifiable information:

>If you do provide personally identifiable information to us, either directly or through a reseller or other business partner, we will: not sell or rent it to a third party without your permission

But it is unclear what "email meta data" means and whether or not you will rent or sell anonymized data "that cannot be readily used to identify you". Other questions might include how long you store this information.

Re: Show HN: Caspy – AI Assistant for Emails

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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).

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