Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail
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Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail
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Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail
#2Hi HN - Shortwave co-founder here. We’ve built a full-featured email client over the last couple of years, just in time for the rise of LLMs. We’ve added quite a few features (and are working on many more) that use LLMs to save you time.
I’m most excited about Smart Summaries — they’ll read and then summarize (even from a different language) long newsletters & those huge threads you just don’t want to wade through.
We’ve got a long way to go, so please do leave us feedback if you have it. Shortwave is much of the early Firebase team, and HN really helped us building that product :) Thanks in advance!
Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail
#3It is a Gmail client, not an email client. The latter is an open standard, which is obviously not supported. That should be mentioned.
Going from 0 to 9 USD / month is steep. Apparently, everyone has Silicon Valley salaries now, for some app.
EDIT: apparently, they changed the title. props for that. :)
Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail
#4Hi HN - Shortwave co-founder here. We’ve built a full-featured email client over the last couple of years, just in time for the rise of LLMs. We’ve added quite a few features (and are working on many more) that use LLMs to save you time. I’m most excited about Smart Summaries — they’ll read and then summarize (even from a different language) long newsletters & those huge threads you just don’t want to wade through. W…
Why are you calling it an email client? It is obviously not. It is a proprietary front-end for Gmail, which is not even remotely the same.
Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail
#5Is there something like this that does not require you to give them all your data for free?
Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail
#6Email is so important to me and can be better, but I'm tired of closed source tools. Have you given thought of how you could make this open source but still monetize?
Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail
#7Doesn't this just feed your info straight into some company's database?
Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail
#8Any potential security issues with giving GPT-3 access to all your emails?
Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail
#9Hi HN - Shortwave co-founder here. We’ve built a full-featured email client over the last couple of years, just in time for the rise of LLMs. We’ve added quite a few features (and are working on many more) that use LLMs to save you time. I’m most excited about Smart Summaries — they’ll read and then summarize (even from a different language) long newsletters & those huge threads you just don’t want to wade through. W…
So the best you could do in a few years is implement the OpenAI API to summarise a bunch of text or did I read that wrong?
Re: Shortwave: A GPT-3-powered front end for Gmail
#10I tried it out, but instantly realized the 'free' version is go restrictive it's useless.
I get many startups want to make sure the free version isn't too good, but here the free version is unusable.
Also, $9/mo for a frontend for gmail is just way too much. $108/y ??? If you're going to pay that much, surely you'd just get off gmail entirely. Why pay that much but still give up all your privacy...