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It's brilliant because it goes way beyond Grammarly to make suggestions and not just point out errors. Good emails make a huge difference, especially with clients or reporting up.
@trace_cohen I didn't know what this meant, but now that I do... whoa! Need to check our company bank accounts.
This is really awesome - it reminds me of @tamireiss's #justnotsorry. It's made a recognizable difference in the tone of emails I send. I'm excited to try this out as well - though hesitant to reinstall Boomerang as it historically doesn't play well with my other gmail extensions (Streak and FullContact).
@gillianim Hi, Gillian - Just verified - Boomerang should work fine with FullContact for Gmail (although I can't speak for Streak). If you run into any issues, please let us know at support@fullcontact.com!
(& congrats to the Boomerang team! This looks like an awesome tool.)
Love Boomerang but can't mesh with their pricing tiers. The "no personal plans" for Google Apps users rubs me the wrong way, as I've always used google apps for my personal email and I can't justify $15 a month to boomerang like 4 extra emails over my 10.
I'd rather there be like a $2.99 plan that just gave me another 30 emails a month or something, don't need the other features.
@thatmattgardner can't really make any saas, even freemium work at $2.99/mo price points. even if the unit economics worked (and they don't), per-swipe credit card fees would kill you. hopefully respondable's advanced calculations will help justify the extra cost - they're pretty server-intensive, and it looks like people are finding them valuable.
@awmoore Haha ours is $1.49 a month but you're right, we eat it on credit card fees ;) Do love boomerang though, I use it every month until I run out of credits!
I was using the original Boomerang for Gmail in college to send emails at 9AM while instead I would type those emails after coming back home at 3AM, recovering from a night partying, and didn't want to look shady..
Then I randomly met Alex, founder/CEO of Boomerang at a conference in Colorado and told him how his platform saved my a$$ a couple of times.
And now this is released and I'm in love.
Moral of the story: If you like cake, you might also like pancakes.
Hi Product Hunters, this is Moah from Boomerang. We're so excited to get this out to you all.
A bit of the back story on how and why we made Respondable.
Last September, we brought our entire team to Maui for our fall workaway. One of our projects on the workaway was to explore natural language processing and machine learning, as they can be applied to email.
We experimented with a bunch of technology, found that holiday support emails are the most positive, and then went back to the office to resume working on urgent things. And we posted a job listing for a data scientist.
Then, around the holidays, Chris from our marketing team came up with an inspired idea - let’s send a useful, thoughtful year-in-review email to our customers. It took us a while to build it, but if you were already a Boomerang user back in February, you may remember getting an email from us that showed a set of data-backed principles for writing effective emails. We also published the data as a blog post and you can find it here. http://blog.boomerangapp.com/201...
Several dozen of our users asked if we could build a real-time version of our blog post that would apply to emails as you write them. So we decided to see if we could bring the recommendations from the data to your fingertips.
Hope to hear from you all on how we can improve Respondable.
@ayemoah Boomerang is good but it's an expensive service offering compared to others out there now. I'm finding that many saas providers are really trying to milk users with high-priced subscriptions such as boomerang. You also need to keep in mind that other possible subscriptions people have, i personally have around 20 minimum so far and counting, for mear functionality as this, it really should cost 'a couple of bucks' not the price of a CRM.
@ayemoah holy crap this is awesome!! 😮 Does it work with Inbox or just regular Gmail?
@daniel_taibleson Hey Daniel, you can download Boomerang for Outlook (with Respondable) here: http://www.boomerangoutlook.com/...
@joshmuccio thank you! Just regular gmail for now. We're working on porting it over to Inbox.
@evankimbrell How writing assistant AI could steal your creativity? @quan How could someone hate it? haha
@evankimbrell @quan It's just a tool, you know that you actually can erase, add and evaluate what you are writing, right?
@igor_scherer @evankimbrell @quan Yup, we don't write the emails for you. You are still the ones writing whatever you send. We just give you real time analysis as you're writing.
sounds great but it does not really give suggestions, just rate your email based on some parameters.
@jabrueckner @ourielohayon haha. thank you. It does give you general suggestions like you should simplify your language or increase politeness. But we leave it up to the human to decide how exactly and what words you use.
Really awesome video. I didn't know people set up first dates via email nowadays 😂
@paulotaylor yes this is part of Boomerang and Boomerang for Gmail is a chrome extension. You can download it at boomeranggmail.com/respondable If you use Outlook, it's at boomerangoutlook.com/respondable
Love your products! Any plans on adding your tools to InfusionSoft or other enterprise level email automation services? I'd love to have this for when I'm creating client email automation sequences 👍🏻
@maxwellfinn that's a great idea. i'd love having this for drip campaigns. right now, we're just focused on getting the technology into the world and keeping the servers alive, but we'd love to explore other integrations.
@basgras From the email I received:
"Is Boomerang reading my emails?
No. By default, Boomerang Respondable works entirely within your browser. It does not transmit any message data anywhere, for any purpose. If you choose to enable advanced machine learning features, Boomerang transmits message data using enterprise-grade encryption, analyzes the message data on a secure server, then transmits the analysis back via encrypted communication channels. After performing the analysis, Boomerang's servers immediately discard any personally-identifiable information connected with the analysis. Boomerang employees do not have access to any message data transmitted as part of your use of Respondable."
As recently reviewed on WCWIT http://bit.ly/2bNYJHJ , This could be cool, especially if you're not concerned about letting all your emails be live scanned and meta tagged, etc. Which I'm not, generally concerned about & even welcome the broadened scope to get better at what ads I'm forced to watch.
This is really slick! I found a bunch of cold emails reach outs from my inbox and cut and paste them into a new email just to put it to the test and see how they scored. Was pretty fun to do actually :)
This is a super interesting space. We'll see more AI and technology used to facilitate communication. Already, much of our conversation and the way we interact with people is digital (through our phones and computers) and as we begin to see the world through an augmented lens, we'll see a version of Boomerang Respondable in our IRL conversations, too.
In some ways this is depressing but I'm an optimist. 😊
@rrhoover Boomerang questions whether the value of struggling to become good at writing emails is greater than the value of successful emails with ease and if we lose a portion of ourselves each time we over-edit.
@rrhoover I'm a bit biased, but I'm fully in the camp that says communicating as well as possible is a desirable thing!
@awmoore @rrhoover Humanity has spent significant time and effort developing communication protocols and platforms while advancing both. One could argue that a person that simply reads more often views the world in an augmented way. (And incidentally might become a better communicator for it).
I think what the folks at Boomerang are doing is fast tracking everyone to this end. Optimist as well, and betting this helps :)
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