Show HN: FranzAI – An AI Email Assistant that sits behind an Email-Address

https://gpt.franzai.com/

by franze • 2 years ago

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gpt.franzai.com

franze3• 2 years ago

Hi, Franz here, creator of FranzAI.

Speaking frankly: FranzAI is accessible simply by writing an email to

  gpt@franzai.com

It is ChatGPT-4 with added "Sending Reminders" and "Memory" functions.

For example, you can forward an email to gpt@franzai.com with a note like this: "Hey, I received this very long email. Extract and add all actionable items to my task list and remind me next Tuesday after lunch about them. If you can solve or support some of these tasks, please do so."

I just launched it today. It runs on a Cloudflare worker, emails are sent via Mailgun, and the AI is ChatGPT-4. So, it can do anything ChatGPT can do with text in your email, plus, as I mentioned, it has a concept of time and memory.

Would love if you give it a try (and upvote obviously).

More infos and privacy disclaimer here https://gpt.franzai.com/

minhtuan2• 2 years ago

Hey, that's a great idea! I'm curious about how the reminder system works. Does it send an email reminder? If so, that's really useful. Have you considered implementing integration with Google Calendar as well? That could be a fantastic additional feature if it's not already part of the system.

franze3• 2 years ago

reminder implementation is quite simple

you send franzai a request to get a reminder i.e. Fwd: ... Remind me about this email next week before lunch.

FranzAI hands this to the ChatGPT api together with a timestamp of your email.

chatgpt calculates the time and writes a json a la { action: [reminder], howfarinthefutureinseconds: 1234254 }

the program logic saves this into a database with a timestamp when the reminder should be executed

a cron looks every other minute if there is a reminder to execute, if yes, it handles the saved data to the FranzAI / ChatGPT logic when then triggers an email send

There is a lot of things possible.

in the pro version i will enable email forwards and repeating reminders i.e: write my team members - which you have in your memory - every every thursday after lunch a short email asking them about the open tasks for this week (that you also have in your memory). collect their feedback, update the tasks and report back to me.

i do not say why this should not be possible? i would properly need some kind of "stufftodoid" that puts every email response we get back into the context of this written email.

about calendar integration, i really really hate google apis and their verification process, also everybody is doing integrations. I am more into what can we do with the medium email and chatgpt (with a sense of time and memory)

minhtuan2• 2 years ago

Nice, I see. So everything is managed within the email system.

franze3• 2 years ago

just try it

gpt@franzai.com

send me a joke in 5 minutes, but a really funny one

drakmail• 2 years ago

Awesome! Still looking something like this for telegram

Show HN: FranzAI – An AI Email Assistant that sits behind an Email-Address

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