I've realized that the main problem with my Pet projects is that even if they do “take off,” they remain in the shadows because I don’t talk about them at all, and as a result, they don’t go beyond MVP – this needs to change.
One of the projects I’m working on in my free time is an AI email processor. I’ve tried different solutions (from https://fyxer.com/ to https://superhuman.com/) and found that they are all very superficial. The attempt to simply overlay a prompt leads either to a complete lack of flexibility or to a drop in quality.
I decided to combine a deterministic approach (if/else) with the use of LLM.
Minimum task (which is already more or less solved): sorting emails into folders (notifications, emails related to kids, everything about AI, etc.)
Maximum task:
- to understand where actions are expected from me, but it’s not spam “reply if you’re interested”
- to automatically respond to standard requests (or at least create drafts)
- to launch some external processes
- to summarize all emails in the folder once a week (convenient for subscriptions)
Would you like such a thing in your email? What else should it be able to do besides what has already been described?
