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Re: AI-powered communication coach

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You sound like me, 5 years ago, at age 21. I only realized I am actually an extroverted person a few months ago.

You can be both! I score as both INTJ and ENTJ depending on the day and my mood.

It sounds like you're an ambivert. MBTI forces you into either the introvert or extrovert category by design, even though the trait is a spectrum.

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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You sound like me, 5 years ago, at age 21. I only realized I am actually an extroverted person a few months ago.

You can be both! I score as both INTJ and ENTJ depending on the day and my mood.

Obligatory reminder that MBTI is pretty much worthless.

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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This looks really exciting but I want to warn that this fulfills the following criteria: - feels to good to be free - it targets a problem that we all sense and fear when we interact with other people - the privacy and security policy is legally invalid in California and the EU (missing both is quite weird as they’re very well known privacy standards) - the email address listed inside the privacy and security policy…

Sounds a bit like they are a startup with very limited time and resources to me. I hope they haven't outright lied about endorsements, however they are building something I quite like the look of and would find personally useful (especially after the horrors of my terrible YC application video), however it looks very expensive to run... I think free is a bit of a worry but it also implies they might not have built that bit yet. Let's see if they show up in the comments to assuage your concerns.

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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Looks like an interesting tool from the landing page. When I tried to create an account with Google it asked for fairly expansive permissions: - See and download any calendar you can access using your Google Calendar - See, edit, share, and permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar Are all these needed? Why would you need to delete a calendar from my account?

When permissions are grouped together like that by bullet, it's usually because Google's API only has 1 scope that covers all those actions (per bullet). My guess is they want to create new events on your calendar? Looking at the Google Calendar API, it seems like if you want to grant an app the ability to add new events, you need to give permission to view all events and delete events as well. https://developers.goo…

I would much rather companies just provide a Webcal link rather than mess with my calendar through an API...

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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post #64

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You can be both! I score as both INTJ and ENTJ depending on the day and my mood.

Obligatory reminder that MBTI is pretty much worthless.

Only child syndrome + handicap + need for social acceptance = pretty unique recipe in my experience. I'm wired different than most. I actually quite enjoy it, as so much I learned in private quiet reading time comes in handy. Yes, I know about Punjab. Yes I know about the Falklands. How about Aknor Wat? It really helps to move among the tribes of the world.

Re: AI-powered communication coach

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Seems similar to https://www.read.ai/ or https://otter.ai/ in terms of functionality, but focused more on individuals.

Read.ai focuses more on cutting down meetings and provides recommendations to reduce workload (which includes improving communication). Read works on meet, zoom, teams or webex and just joins the meetings as a bot.

Otter.ai focuses on transcription and making notes very accessible and searchable.

From the demo poised seems to require you to use their video chat, I'm not sure how I feel about that. It's a commodity, but seems like it would be hard to get people to switch to and trust. I recall zoom had several trust issues in the past (related to routing to China).

Most companies don't want their interviews logged for liability reasons.

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