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Shortwave
Company blog · shortwave.com/blog · on HN as jwngraiproductivity
Shortwave is the company blog at shortwave.com, writing about ai and productivity. Since 2021, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 58 times, most often “Shortwave: An AI (GPT-3) powered email client”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Agentic AI that helps you organize, write, search, schedule, and more with just a prompt
Most-linked posts?
- Shortwave: An AI (GPT-3) powered email client4 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2022-02-18
- Email: The Future of Messaging4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-09-21
- Shortwave – Google Inbox Alternative4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-08-26
- Shortwave – Firebase founder's new email startup3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-21
- Show HN: AI Email Summaries2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-02-27
- How Shortwave (smartest email) works2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-17
- /docs/guides/team/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-15
- Meet your AI Executive Assistant2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-20
What Hacker News says?
Shortwave | Software Engineers & Designers | Remote (US) or SF | $125k-$210k+ base & equity Shortwave is rebuilding email from the ground up to have the features and UX of a modern messaging app. I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Google, and most of my team is ex-Google / ex-Firebase. We're well-funded and looking for smart, ambitious engineers and designers who want to make an impact on how th…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox as a story · 224 points
HN discussionThe author notes: "Finally, we need to talk federation. Does it make moving fast and breaking things more difficult? Yes, yes it does, and that can be a good thing." The other, super-underrated feature of federated systems is that antagonistic parties are willing to use them together. For example, the US military, Russian government, major international banks, Google, Facebook, etc ALL use email and happily exchange…
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on “Signal: You were the chosen one [video]”Submitted Shortwave – Firebase founder's new email startup as a story · 28 points
HN discussionShortwave | Software Engineers, PMs & Designers | Remote (US) or SF $125k-$225k+ base & equity Shortwave is rebuilding email from the ground up to have the features and UX of modern messaging apps. Our mission is to ensure the future of online communications is decentralized -- and email is the largest truly decentralized communications network in the world. I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Go…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)”Submitted Shortwave: An AI (GPT-3) powered email client as a story · 8 points
HN discussionShortwave | Software Engineers & Product Designers | Remote (US) or SF $130k-$220k+ base & equity Shortwave is rebuilding email from the ground up to have the features and UX of a modern messaging app. Our mission is to ensure the future of online communications is decentralized -- and email is the largest decentralized communications network in the world. I previously cofounded Firebase (YC S11) and sold it to Goog…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)”Submitted Magic Labels: bundle your newsletters, purchases and more as a story · 6 points
HN discussionShortwave | Software Engineers & Product Designers | Remote (US) or SF | $130k-$250k+ base & equity Shortwave is rebuilding email from the ground up to have the features and UX of a modern messaging app, so you can communicate smarter & faster. Our mission is to ensure the future of online communications is decentralized -- and email is the largest decentralized communications network in the world. I previously cofo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)”Submitted Meet your AI Executive Assistant as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttps://www.shortwave.com/ might be of interest to you! Each sender (or group-of-recipients as group conversation) is bundled together into a thread-of-threads, and you can favorite senders or groups of interest. It's fast and thoughtfully built, by the team behind Firebase. Not affiliated, just happy to have found something that made me actually enjoy email again!
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on “Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving”Submitted Real-time React apps using Watchables as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCheck out our security doc [1], Privacy Policy [2], and Terms of Service [3] for this information. [1] https://www.shortwave.com/docs/references/security/ [2] https://www.shortwave.com/policies/privacy-policy/ [3] https://www.shortwave.com/policies/terms-of-service/
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on “Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox”Submitted Email: The Future of Messaging as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe'd love to better support PGP and multipart/encrypted emails - we have been focusing on nailing our UX and our client experience. But we have grand plans[1] to improve the underlying protocol, and part of that is making e2e encryption the default experience. [1]: https://www.shortwave.com/blog/future-of-messaging/
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on “Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox”Submitted Show HN: AI Email Summaries as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThanks! Our keyboard shortcuts are pretty extensive too [1]. Let us know if there's a shortcut missing that you'd like to see! Beyond price, there are a handful of examples [2], but I'll focus on two big things that set Shortwave apart: (1) An opinionated triage flow. Bundles group together related senders to make your inbox more scannable, while our triage actions (Pin / Snooze / Done) and drag 'n drop allow you to…
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on “Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox”Submitted Designing dark mode without the headaches as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"Inbox Zero" is 100% not the goal with Shortwave and you won't see it in our marketing. Not to be too cheeky, but "Inbox Organized" is the goal. We want to help you treat your inbox like the to-do list that it is, not necessarily smash every email that enters your inbox. Read more about our workflow in our docs. [1] [1] https://www.shortwave.com/docs/guides/101/
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on “Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox”Submitted Productionizing RAG: LLMs, embeddings, and cross-encoders as a story · 2 points
HN discussionShortwave cofounder here. We totally get that. Gmail is just the start for us. We plan to support more providers in the future and even become our own provider long-term. Read more about our company mission on our blog [1]. [1] https://www.shortwave.com/blog/future-of-messaging/
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on “Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox”Submitted Shortwave – Google Inbox Alternative as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThanks for the detailed thoughts! And for the kind words in here :) Re: team features -- we have Workspaces and Channels that let you solve many of the same use cases as Front. Check out our guide here including a quick video intro: https://www.shortwave.com/docs/guides/team/ To clarify -- while you can use Channels / Workspaces for general team chat, the main purpose is to help you collaborate on emails , like Fron…
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on “Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox”Submitted AI Autocomplete – Shortwave now finishes your sentences as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou can do this with shortwave: https://www.shortwave.com/blog/introducing-ghostwriter-ai-wr... On thing that is interesting is that they allow you to add additional prompt, because sometimes you don’t want an email to actually sound like you but it to sound like the writer you want to be (leveling up so to speak)
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on “Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary”Submitted A deep dive into the smartest email AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy team just launched a product on Tuesday designed to solve this exact problem. Email has a better threading model than Slack, but email clients lack the realtime features needed for synchronous collaboration. So we're trying to fix. The idea is to let you do long-form, async and short-form, synchronous communications using the same tool, and to do it over email so you can still talk to anyone. Our product is Short…
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on “Can Slack-mania be cured with systemized discipline?”Submitted How Shortwave (smartest email) works as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou can also do this with https://shortwave.com (and get iOS/Android/Web) https://twitter.com/Shortwave/status/1760723475923390598
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on “Building an email-to-calendar LLM”Submitted Meet your AI email assistant as a story · 1 points
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