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Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly

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Re: Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly

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Post by filipt »

namank wrote: post #22
filipt wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're working on a business version of the product, which will be a monthly fee on a per user basis. We're unsure of the exact pricing yet. It definitely isn't slow for all users! However, there are some that send so many emails that any incremental speed-up is very helpful. Plus, we're looking to start working on mobile, where it should be most useful!

I think it's more than incremental speed up - it's the amount of mindspace it takes.

Very interesting, I haven't really thought of it that way. Do you mean we essentially lower the barrier to you starting to write an email?

If that's the case, that's a fascinating insight - thank you so much for sharing it!

Re: Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly

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Post by gordon_freeman »

hieu wrote: post #26
codegeek wrote: post #23

It is interesting to see Chrome Plugins being accepted into YC. Is the potential really worth a billion dollar market ? I would think that YC wants to invest in startups that could scale to high growth in a short span of time. Are Chrome plugins really worth that much ? Or perhaps this is just the MVP and idea is to scale it further ?

I think the fact that it looks like toy is a plus to YC. https://blog.ycombinator.com/why-toys/ Great founders + (seemingly) toy/stupid/too hard ideas = how YC selects.

I think along with this TOY-ness, YC also looks for the available market and in this case I do not see that with this app. maybe the idea is to get some traction and sell it to Google down the road?

Re: Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly

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Post by codegeek »

filipt wrote: post #29
codegeek wrote: post #23

It is interesting to see Chrome Plugins being accepted into YC. Is the potential really worth a billion dollar market ? I would think that YC wants to invest in startups that could scale to high growth in a short span of time. Are Chrome plugins really worth that much ? Or perhaps this is just the MVP and idea is to scale it further ?

Great insight! Chrome extension is our MVP actually - over time we will certainly expand to other platforms (or even have our own email client!). We're already in the process for setting up a Gmail Add-on ( https://blog.google/products/g-suite/do-more-your-inbox-gmai... ) It also seems like we can keep going with a Chrome Extension for a bit - Streak, MixMax or even Grammarly are good examples of companies who are fo…

Yea I understand now. Indeed, companies such as Streak, Grammarly etc. are good examples.

Re: Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly

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Post by filipt »

kazanz wrote: post #30

I find a couple things irksome, if not malicious. 1. The link to the privacy policy comes AFTER you take all my data. 2. If I uninstall your extension you have it programmed to give me an exit survey, but it doesn't prompt me to revoke access for your app from my account? So you can continue to read all my communications. At the very least tell me how to remove it when I uninstall your extension, or fill out your exi…

Thanks so much for all the feedback, I really appreciate it.

1. We're sharing our privacy policy on our chrome extension webstore page - did you manage to see it there? If not, we should definitely do a much better job presenting it, so thank you for pointing it out.

2. So sorry, definitely don't want to hide anything! We'll push out the changes asap to show our users how to remove your permissions. We stop looking at your data once you uninstall (even if you don't revoke permissions).

3.Sorry about that! You can remove it easily in the "EasyEmail" control panel - just hit "Settings" and you can uncheck the button

4. We'll keep getting better! Thanks for pointing out that we're suggesting some generic sentences - this tends to happen when the user didn't send a lot of emails from a given email address (which means there's not a lot of data to learn from.)

Again, thank you so much for your feedback. We'll get right to fixing all the problems!

Re: Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly

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Post by filipt »

vj44 wrote: post #33

I've been testing easymail for a couple weeks (the gmail add-on and the chrome plugin). So far a very positive experience - saves me time on repetitive emails. Looking forward to updates & more AI.

Glad to hear we've been useful! Looking forward to more feedback in the future :)

Re: Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly

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Post by filipt »

gordon_freeman wrote: post #32
hieu wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the fact that it looks like toy is a plus to YC. https://blog.ycombinator.com/why-toys/ Great founders + (seemingly) toy/stupid/too hard ideas = how YC selects.

I think along with this TOY-ness, YC also looks for the available market and in this case I do not see that with this app. maybe the idea is to get some traction and sell it to Google down the road?

That's good feedback - why do you think the available market is small?

That's certainly a possibility, but for now we're just really focused on making the product really useful.

Re: Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly

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Post by mkagenius »

namank wrote: post #10

This is awesome guys. To reply to all the people that are like this is not a big enough problem, tell them that this is the start and then tell them what is the next stage of your company. To me, it sounds like a personal assistant that can automatically reply for you to fairly complex emails. We get SO MUCH email, maybe this will actually help us manage all that. It is a very powerful idea, all the best to you.

> personal assistant that can automatically reply for you

That would make me redundant. 4 hr work week, I am coming.

Re: Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly

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Post by avinashjdsouza »

OK, I'm loving a couple of things:

1. As someone in sales, there are a truckload of emails I send out each day. Contrary to what a lot of people think, no, we don't send out templated stuff blindly. I think EE should be able to help me shave off about half an hour in think-time in a a day. Huge.

2. Organic-ish. Early days, I know, but I'm hoping that EE won't devolve to a glorified SmartReply with additional text templates.

3. There's a roadmap for pro-users. Which means at some point of time, there _might_ just be an Outlook/Polymail plugin(please say yes). Which is when I absolutely win. :-) Also, it's nice to be relatively assured that your data isn't likely to be sold.

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