I was imagining the other day what other "apps" that frontier labs can get into. If we had "Claude Mail" or "ChatGPT for Workspaces" it would be very interesting. Email service created by Claude, then docs (they have it already?) then all the business apps layer (heck integrate your vibe coded apps onto these! build your own slack, CRM)
If models are commoditized and apps is where the grab is - I actually wouldn't mind a new email provider - GMail has not practically changed in the last 10 years I feel.
The big picture here is that LLMs using APIs to get into information stores works but is stupidly slow. Email is a good example. You can hookup gmail or whatever to codex or claude and it's great. But it takes ages for it to dig through your inbox and that involves doing a lot of API calls. Most SAAS tools are about gate keeping data via APIs. You need to break open those silos to get to the data. A CRM is just a contact book with a lot of meta data. Why not download all that data and provide direct access? It's a lot faster than accessing records one by one via some API.
What if email existed on your laptop? Like was common before we moved to using web based applications? What if your local email client had a local database with a proper search API. That sounds a lot like what Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. did a quarter century ago. And still do if you still use those. Digging through a local database is a lot faster than dealing with relatively slow API access. LLMs are really good at doing stuff like that.
I run a small company, I've taken a sledge hammer to many of the SAAS tools we use in our business in the last years. We got rid of Hubspot, Slack, and many other tools we use for financial planning, etc. These got replaced with self hosted open source things or simple file based repositories in some cases. This has several huge advantages: 1) it's stupidly easy to get to the data for LLMs now 2) LLMs can administer these things for us 3) we saved quite a bit in licensing fees. 4) removing obstacles means LLMs can do complex things we used to do manually in dreadful SAAS tools.
I'm not sure a chat interface is a good UX for a lot of use cases. I want my emails as a list of emails, not an explanation of what that list contains
I saw they're rolling out the done-to-death personal finance Mint-competitor and it's the exact same issue. At first it was interesting.. then when it comes to actually using it it's just not a fluid UX
The initial reaction is "why on earth would I give Facebook MORE of my data, no way" but as some commenters said, this would be a great tool to use to see if it can automate some of the tools that I have not been able to automate (e.g. Facebook most of all!)
If it will help me search (or rather "comb") through rental posts on the trillions Facebook groups (that Facebook spent years making in unsearchable sanely) I have to subscribe to (just for my city) and make it even 10% better for me, I might as well pay a bit for this tool. Why? Because I like it or hate it - that's where the rental posts live (and very little elsewhere - and even those are on Facebook).
Oh the verbosity and the cryptic words that it uses. The other day, all of a sudden it used an acronym "DoD". I had no idea what it was and made me feel dumb. It's "Definition of Done". I don't care how widely used this acronym is, you just can't throw it in there.
I've now installed quite a number of tools to combat this. Just in the last few days I've installed
Look, GLM, Kimi, Deepseek and Qwen should just join forces and come up with THE model that will beat the frontier lab models even just for the benchmaxxing perspective - all just to create hype and chaos to derail the trillion IPO conversations surrounding OpenAI and Anthropic.
absolutely love forums! It's also a kind of a rite of passage for devs to create a forum if you are learning new language (back in the days) - an advanced version of "Create your first blog" type of thing?
A while back ago, I created HN Plus (hn[.]plus) (for some reason it gets blocked) - anyway, wanted to give people a way to create their own HN clone - still being used today and it was a very interesting exercise to replicate all the niche features of HN.
Hey can’t seem to DM you (probably user error) but in the world cup pickem site you built, the quarter finals are not updating. Could you look at that? Thanks!
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