Hey Product Hunt! 👋
Today I'm introducing Ellie! Ellie is an AI email assistant, powered by GPT-3 who can reply to emails for you 💌
💫 Ellie understands context
Ellie uses the context of the email thread to craft intelligent replies to emails, copying your style so they appear as if they were written by you.
🌍 Ellie speaks many languages
Using the powerful features of GPT-3, Ellie can create accurate responses to emails in any language, on any topic.
🪞 Ellie mirrors your emotions
By specifying the tone of the email (casual, respectful, or annoyed), and whether or not you are interested in the email, Ellie will create the perfect reply - some results seem so intuitive you'll think Ellie was reading your mind 🤯
💁 Ellie fits into your workflow
Currently Ellie works in Gmail as a Chrome or Firefox extension. But we are quickly expanding to more email providers!
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🐥 Ellie was born just over a week ago, but already has over 4000 installs and has crafted 1000s of email replies. Ellie is learning every day and will only get better!
🌱 You can try Ellie out for free forever, or if you're a heavy email email user you can buy one of our plans and Ellie will create up to 100 replies for you per day.
🚀 For launch day we're offering a 40% discount on all our plans, see what Ellie can do for you today!
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🦁 Ellie in the wild
In the short time Ellie has been available we've had a huge outreach of people telling us how the AI is helping them, here are some example cases:
- Struggling to write formal emails in your second language? Ellie does this easily!
- Does replying to emails give you anxiety? Ellie can get you started!
- Suffer from dyslexia or other problems with writing? Ellie is a huge help!
If Ellie has helped you please let us know! ❤️ And share your examples with us on Twitter! 🙂
@jamesivings We can definitely see how helpful Ellie could be for those who struggle with writing formal emails in their second language or suffer from dyslexia or other problems with writing; it's great that we now have this technology available to help them out.
@jamesivings Hi there! It's great to hear about Ellie. We think this is a really cool concept and we can't wait to learn more about it. Congratulations on your launch!
Looks cool, do you plan to integrate with non-web based browsers, like Mac Mail or Spark Mail? or how would this work?
and can you save canned answers and reuse them for future replies?
@kylegawley Hey Kyle, thanks!
Not sure, maybe in future we could do a OSX toolbar app, but focusing on the browser for now!
Soon you'll be able to train Ellie better with your common replies, so I think this makes canned replies not needed, but we'll see!
@madebyues I can't really comment on how they chose their pricing, but I imagine it's because Ellie is better! Using OpenAI to generate content is cheap, but Ellie can be fine-tuned on your previous replies, and fine-tuning a model is expensive.
Looks like a life saver! Didn't get a chance to use it yet because I'm not really an email person but it is on the top of my next tools to try! Congrats guys 🔥
@phuctm97 I am jealous that you're not an email person, unfortunately my job doesn't let me choose! But Ellie is already making life easier for us. Thanks so much 🔥
Congrats on the launch, guys!
It was fun to follow how you build Ellie on Twitter! I think it's one of the most useful and interesting applications of AI I've seen.
Good luck!
I'm an early user of Ellie and this is an amazing product that makes replying and staying on top of my emails easy as!
Insta-buy! 😁
Thanks you for making a great product James & Danielle! 🙌
@dinkydani21@jamesivings Congrats for Ellie! It's an amazing product.
As said other times, you guys are an inspiration for many of us.
Oddly, I'm also launching my product today: prettyCode.com (way down in the PH ranking 😅).
Happy if you also want to have a look and comment.
@zhao_li1 hey! right now you can provide Ellie some examples in the "training" tab on the extension settings page. More advanced training from your sent items + way to add additional context to replies is coming soon!
Congrats on the launch! This is definitely an under-tapped niche within the AI tools market in my opinion, emails are a hard one to get right. I would love to list Ellie on my AI tools directory, with your permission!
Replying to emails requires creativity as you have to look for the professional pitch and other factors. I think this tool will be beneficial for many people in this regard. Congrats on the launch...
Great job with this app guys!! I stumbled upon LeaveMeAlone.app last week and it's been amazing for me so far, and here you are again... releasing another app that I'm very excited to use too!
How long, after requesting a license key, does it take issue one? I requested it about 30 mins ago, but I still haven't got it yet! Not rushing you here on this. Wanted to let you know\ask just in case there is a bigger issue going on, on your end.
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@martyn_keigher Hey it should be instant but lots of our mails are going to spam because the domain is very new. Can you send me an email hi@ellieai.com?
@akshat_jain21 Hey thanks! Not sure what you mean about tone. Ellie will usually respond in the same tone as the email being replied to, or you can specify the style.
I think the product has potential, but I think the price tag is a little high. A person still has to monitor the emails that Ellie is writing and review them before it's sent. So, even though, I don't have to write the email, I don't think I can trust it blindly. That could be a problem and therefore, the price tag for that seems to be high.
@joel_kandy yep for sure you shouldn't trust it blindly. I hear your feedback and I would suggest that what you're paying for is time-saved thinking about and crafting a reply to most emails, especially ones where you're not interested but still want to be polite. If you don't spend much time doing that or are already good/efficient at it then I can see it's not going to be worth it for you. Thanks for your comment! 😁
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