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We're building a tool that does something similar but for email. Currently we're targeting cold sales emails- the idea is, you enter a recipient's email and we aggregate data about them and surface relevant, personable sentences that you can use in the email. You'll also be able to change the tone of these sentences (funny, professional, casual, etc.)

Learn more: http://emailfox.co

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That's ... disgustingly creepy on first glance.

How do you mean? A tool to help you relate to the folks you're cold-emailing? It seems like a way to find common ground.

Maybe I am misreading you, but perhaps you think the effect is a dishonest one? That because the language EmailFox helps you find isn't the phrasing you improvised at first blush, it's not your copy?

If the UX is strong, think of the wonders this could do for non-fiction writing!

Something like this will only work if your clients don't screw it up by spamming the same targets over and over.

If you can somehow get it through to your clients that they should only ever spam one target once, then hell, I'm for it.

Yup, agreed. I think overtime we'll also try to compensate for this by build a ML model from all the emails being sent to provide more 'fuzziness' to it.

don't want to sound harsh, but the copy of your website does not inspire much confidence for a tool that i am supposed to use for writing.

You're not harsh at all- i'd appreciate feedback, what parts do you think we should improve?

I'll admit we kind of rushed the sign up page as we've been busy building the product.

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