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filipt

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Currently re-engineering the email experience (easyemail.ai) | Graduate from MIT majoring in courses 16 (Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering) and 18 (Mathematics) | Keen judo fighter and harmonica player.
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filipt··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)
Pulley | pulley.com | REMOTE (anywhere in the world) or onsite | Full-time

Pulley's mission is to make it easier for anyone to start a company. We believe that more startups should be created and that founder-led companies are more successful in the long term. With Pulley’s cap table management tools, companies can better understand and optimize their equity for the long term. Starting a company is hard enough. Managing equity shouldn’t be.

We’re a high-performing team looking for passionate, execution-focused, self-starters to help us build equity management tools for founders. Pulley is growing quickly with over 1600 customers including unicorns like Clubhouse, Birdies, Coda, and Fast - all within our first year of product launch. Our trajectory is fueled by top investors like Stripe, General Catalyst, Caffeinated Capital, 8vc, Elad Gil, among other great angels. All of our growth has been organic, and we’re growing the team to meet the demand.

We're hiring across all roles: - Senior Go Engineers

- Senior React Engineers

- Designers

- Account Executives

- Account Managers

- Partnership Manager

- Business Operations

- and many more

If you're interested, please contact us at hiring@pulley.com or visit pulley.com/careers.

filipt··on Show HN: Founder Chats – Connecting Hacker News Founder Community
Great job with Openland! I love the ability to chat with a group of people that are going through the same problems as us with the startup <3
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Awesome insight, thanks so much! I'd love to chat with you about that - anything you're specifically looking for out of the product?
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
We're already developing a Gmail Add-on, which will work on mobile! We're looking to go into mobile as soon as possible
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Excellent question! We're already starting to work on calendar integration to help you out with scheduling. Over time, we plan on improving more and more parts of your email - task management, figuring out which emails are the top ones for you to read and reply to, who you should reach out to etc. That's just a few ideas that we've been thinking about - would really love to hear if you have any suggestions!
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Understood! We'll be working on this asap :) Really appreciate your feedback.
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Thank you! That's extremely useful - definitely not concern trolling. We recognize how important email is to our users, so we definitely want to resolve those issues!

We're incorporating some of the things you've already mentioned (client-side decryption, better sanitization), but we'll be a lot more cautious moving forward. You brought up really excellent points, so thank you for sharing those with us!

filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Got it, makes sense. I'll make sure to update that soon! Thank you for the suggestion.

We delete data the second we don't have access to users' account. However, we don't store any new data after you uninstall us. The reason is that there's actually no way of tracking who uninstalls us - Chrome Extensions are not providing any real support for it. We're looking into it, and will retroactively remove all data from users who uninstalled us.

Brilliant idea! We'll make the checkbox more visible! Got it, sorry about that. Please let me know what you think once you get some time to play with the extension! Thank you so much again for the feedback, it's incredibly valuable.

filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Really great idea! I put it down so that we can work on it in the near future. There seems to be a lot of privacy issues with attachments. Do you have any suggestion on how you'd like us to deal with it? Is it something you're worried about at all?
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Awesome! so happy to hear you've enjoyed it so far. We've got a ton of additional things coming up for you, and no, they're not going to make us SmartReply!

Almost definitely a yes to an Outlook extension coming up - we're just making sure now that we're doing a good enough job on Gmail before we start porting over to another platform :)

Hey - any chance you could email me at filip@easyemail.ai? I'd love to set up a phone call to hear how we could be better for you. Thanks!

filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
That's good feedback - why do you think the available market is small?

That's certainly a possibility, but for now we're just really focused on making the product really useful.

filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Glad to hear we've been useful! Looking forward to more feedback in the future :)
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Thanks so much for all the feedback, I really appreciate it.

1. We're sharing our privacy policy on our chrome extension webstore page - did you manage to see it there? If not, we should definitely do a much better job presenting it, so thank you for pointing it out.

2. So sorry, definitely don't want to hide anything! We'll push out the changes asap to show our users how to remove your permissions. We stop looking at your data once you uninstall (even if you don't revoke permissions).

3.Sorry about that! You can remove it easily in the "EasyEmail" control panel - just hit "Settings" and you can uncheck the button

4. We'll keep getting better! Thanks for pointing out that we're suggesting some generic sentences - this tends to happen when the user didn't send a lot of emails from a given email address (which means there's not a lot of data to learn from.)

Again, thank you so much for your feedback. We'll get right to fixing all the problems!

filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Very interesting, I haven't really thought of it that way. Do you mean we essentially lower the barrier to you starting to write an email?

If that's the case, that's a fascinating insight - thank you so much for sharing it!

filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Great insight! Chrome extension is our MVP actually - over time we will certainly expand to other platforms (or even have our own email client!). We're already in the process for setting up a Gmail Add-on (https://blog.google/products/g-suite/do-more-your-inbox-gmai...)

It also seems like we can keep going with a Chrome Extension for a bit - Streak, MixMax or even Grammarly are good examples of companies who are focused around a Chrome extension.

What other platforms do you think we could focus on? Where would you like to see us most?

filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Thanks for the support! Really appreciate that :)
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Could you elaborate on that a bit? There's no one looking at your data in real time.

I'll make sure we review the privacy policy once again - you've been bringing up some extremely useful points, so thank you so much!

filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Great, looking forward to it!
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
So sorry about that - we'll make sure to improve our privacy policy to reflect that better. Thank you for pointing it out!

We're working on client-side encryption right now actually, which will further help us be better about your privacy.

The only people who can read email sentences are our researchers - and even then the sentences are not identifiable. They are obviously bound by very restrictive NDAs.

filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Awesome, what are your initial thoughts? Would love to make it better for you. We'll be rolling out calendar integration in a day or two, so stay tuned
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Thanks so much! Really happy to hear that you like our idea. Please shoot me any feedback you have at filip@easyemail.ai. I want to make sure you have the best possible experience!
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
We just released it two weeks ago, so we're just looking to get loads of feedback as we're improving our tech to finally create a business version of it.

We've got no plans whatsoever to sell anyone's data - we'll be a good ol' regular SaaS product for business with a free version for personal use.

filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Oh man hahah, that's gotten dark real quick! Promise we're not trying to do that
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Sorry to hear that! I'd love to find out more about how we could resolve that issue.

Privacy and security are extremely high on our priority list since email is such an intimate communication channel.

filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
We're working on a business version of the product, which will be a monthly fee on a per user basis. We're unsure of the exact pricing yet.

It definitely isn't slow for all users! However, there are some that send so many emails that any incremental speed-up is very helpful. Plus, we're looking to start working on mobile, where it should be most useful!

filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
Never read it, but I just looked it up and will order it soon. Gotta make sure we don't make the same mistakes ;) Definitely not something we're going after, haha!
filipt··on Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly
We get used in 15% of emails on average. That number tends to vary a lot from user to user though - we've got a few users who use us in 80% of their emails, and some that use us very sporadically.

We don't have a number for the percentage of usage for what the user specifically types, but it sounds like definitely something we should have, so thanks for the suggestion!