Show HN: Cursor – An AI Email Companion

4 points by mntruell 4 years ago | 5 comments

Hey HN! I built https://cursor.so/, a chrome extension to help you write email blazingly fast.

Cursor has three key features 1) describe your email and have an AI write a draft for you 2) one-click to shorten your email and 3) highlight text to change its tone (make it more formal/casual/friendly).

I hope that Cursor can make writing email more easy and fun for some of you :).

Happy to chat about the AI or dev stack behind the product. Let me know if you have any questions/comments/feature requests!

thenaturalist 4 years ago |

Hey, this looks quite interesting, and something I'd take a serious look at to just get my time back when it comes to emails.

First thoughts:

1. How much training does this need to be considered functional? I.e. I see your example GIF of writing two sentences and out comes a formal Cursor email. Looks great, but that goes beyond NLP, there is context in the output I do not see in the input. So what would need to happen to get to the GIF if I start from scratch?

2. Is there any kind of confidence score that indicates the estimated quality of the output? Reason here is that communication is still a pareto system for me: There might be occassions where it's delicate to communicate correctly, and messing up that one time might have disproportionate effects. Granted, I'd reread an email in such a case, but any visual cue as to how likely I should be rereading an output would bring peace of mind.

In any case, congrats on shipping, and best of luck for the next steps!

tedmiston 4 years ago |

Waitlists should go into general not Show HN.

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

mntruell 4 years ago | |

Gotcha! Will resubmit to general later.

mritchie712 4 years ago |

Why isn't there a live demo?

mntruell 4 years ago | |

Right now, I'm letting people off the waitlist a few at a time. Want to make sure the product is the best it can be (no bugs, features adding tons of value) before I open it up to everyone.

If you say you came from HN, I'll take you off the waitlist asap.