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Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

#31

Sorry but what on earth is this demo video blathering on about? half way through it's still setting the plot to some hypothetic bad day. Get to the point!

Exactly what I was going to post. At the very least I was expecting a demo of the product after all the nonsensical "bad day" blabber. But it never came and I still had no idea what I was looking at.

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

#32

It's a neat idea, but after too many sarcastic, "clever", trying-to-be-funny, defensive, et al emails in my career I have a simpler heuristic. If I have to ask myself "should I send it?", the answer is no. Leave it in drafts (with no one in the to: line!) until either things have cooled down and I delete it, or there's more perspective and it's actually ok to send. I have too many fails to tell, but the worst ever wa…

My experience has been that being firm but polite over a phone call or in an in-person meeting is more effective than sending a sarcastic, clever, trying to be funny, or smiley-face-at-the-end email.

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

#33
post #31

Sorry but what on earth is this demo video blathering on about? half way through it's still setting the plot to some hypothetic bad day. Get to the point!

Exactly what I was going to post. At the very least I was expecting a demo of the product after all the nonsensical "bad day" blabber. But it never came and I still had no idea what I was looking at.

This comment and the one above it in the thread are perfect examples of use cases of "Should I send it?"

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

#34

It's a neat idea, but after too many sarcastic, "clever", trying-to-be-funny, defensive, et al emails in my career I have a simpler heuristic. If I have to ask myself "should I send it?", the answer is no. Leave it in drafts (with no one in the to: line!) until either things have cooled down and I delete it, or there's more perspective and it's actually ok to send. I have too many fails to tell, but the worst ever wa…

Great. I apply something I’ve came across:

- if you question whether you should send an email, call the person

- if you ask yourself for too long what to say on the phone, go and see the person

Has worked well for me

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

#36

IMO add a gif of the system working right on the front page (similar to https://getstation.com/ ) It’ll drive more conversions. Also after working on sentiment analysis for a long time, you should let each user build their own model with tensorflow.js. That may be a down the line kind of thing, but otherwise your model will be fairly inaccurate. I say this having worked heavily in the space: https://hnprofile.com/

It doesn't seem like HNProfile is particularly accurate. It seems to interpret terse comments as unhappy, and all my interests listed come from a single comment thread a couple months ago discussing Canadian regions instead of anything technical I have talked about. I will say that I'm unhappy that you've built a chart on what you percieve my mood to be and published it without my consent.

Ooh that's going to get you a negative bar!

Yay hn profile is great, also puppies are fantastic. Love, happy, awesome, woo!

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

#37
Pitch it to Linus. An endorsement like that could be a huge marketing boost.

"With Should I Send It? I don't sound like a huge jerk whenever someone tries to get a patch merged that's fucking braindead^W^Wnot up to kernel quality standards. Thanks, Should I Send It?!"

I'm being lighthearted, but not really joking: Linus is really looking for something like this to help keep the rage down in his correspondemce.

Re: Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

#39

IMO add a gif of the system working right on the front page (similar to https://getstation.com/ ) It’ll drive more conversions. Also after working on sentiment analysis for a long time, you should let each user build their own model with tensorflow.js. That may be a down the line kind of thing, but otherwise your model will be fairly inaccurate. I say this having worked heavily in the space: https://hnprofile.com/

It doesn't seem like HNProfile is particularly accurate. It seems to interpret terse comments as unhappy, and all my interests listed come from a single comment thread a couple months ago discussing Canadian regions instead of anything technical I have talked about. I will say that I'm unhappy that you've built a chart on what you percieve my mood to be and published it without my consent.

It's not particularly accurate, which kind of is my point... I was able to get right around 80%, between myself and others manually tagging the dataset.

Funny thing, even with myself and others tagging the content, there is a high variance in our scoring. Meaning - accuracy is in part the eye of the beholder.

Also, if you think that this is intrusive -- imagine the NSA reading your personal email

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