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> The company claims its users send and respond to 72% more emails per hour, and the percentage of emails composed with its AI tools has increased fivefold in the past year. Is this really a good metric to aim for? Don't we want productivity tooling to result in less email not more?
This is a bit surprising. I even didn't expect Grammarly to have the cash, I used to be a paying customer of theirs when I was writing papers, but apparently with AI I don't even need the free Grammarly anymore.
> The company claims its users send and respond to 72% more emails per hour, and the percentage of emails composed with its AI tools has increased fivefold in the past year. Is this really a good metric to aim for? Don't we want productivity tooling to result in less email not more?
My history with email clients being acquired is not encouraging. The history is they are effectively abandoned and/or shut down on the order of weeks and months not years. See Dropbox/Mailbox.
> My history with email clients being acquired is not encouraging. Ignoring the constraint of "email client", has there been any acquisitions where the acquired product got better post-acquisition? I can think of countless examples where it got worse, but from the top of my head, I can only think of maybe YouTube, but then only in the initial post-purchase period, and same goes for a bunch of other examples. They see…
Diamond Aircraft
Volvo
Cirrus
All retained their culture and brand and the products keep improving incrementally. Parent companies keep a low profile wrt product.
> The company claims its users send and respond to 72% more emails per hour, and the percentage of emails composed with its AI tools has increased fivefold in the past year. Is this really a good metric to aim for? Don't we want productivity tooling to result in less email not more?
Why do their customers even need to send 72% more email?
Superhuman made one of my accounts wait for four years for an invite.
How much did they pay for this? I hope not much.
> The company claims its users send and respond to 72% more emails per hour, and the percentage of emails composed with its AI tools has increased fivefold in the past year. Is this really a good metric to aim for? Don't we want productivity tooling to result in less email not more?
This is a bit surprising. I even didn't expect Grammarly to have the cash, I used to be a paying customer of theirs when I was writing papers, but apparently with AI I don't even need the free Grammarly anymore.
Yeah localllms replace that job very nicely.
What do folks like for desktop email that's keyboard driven? At this point I almost want to go back to Pine ;)