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April | https://www.tryapril.com | San Francisco /Gurgaon, India | ONSITE | Full-time

  Roles:
  1. Head of Growth (SF)
  2. Senior Software Engineer (Gurgaon, India)

Head of Growth - Own the 0→100K user journey. Build content-led growth across LinkedIn/X/TikTok, run viral B2C experiments, and craft our brand voice. We need a proven track record of growing consumer products, content creation chops, and unreasonable excitement about retention curves. Extremely competitive salary + equity + user milestone bonuses.

Senior Software Engineer - Build the core backend for our AI assistant. 2-6 years of experience, TypeScript/Python, with consumer product background preferred. Work directly with founders on architecture decisions. Must work from the office. Competitive salary + early equity + quarterly performance hikes.

If you're interested, send your profile to akash@tryapril.com

Personally I won't do that as LLM's way of judging an unimportant email vs my judgement is different - we are still working on evolving that but again email is so different for different people that it will need a lot of learning.

But you can say remove all the emails which have unsubscribe text and it will do that in the batch of 20-100 (based on the app's rate limit at that time)

Sure, the data stored are (User's relation to the sender) + tone + way of writing.

None of the email's actual content is/will be stored (Goes against gmail's compliance)

Means April will not send emails even if you dictate the email and ask it to send it. In safe mode, it will not have access to tool calls which are related to send email, move to trash.

Yeah, It does. We mentioned only few of the things in the demo or else it would have been very long. Apart from hard delete, create /edit labels - all operations can be done through April.

Create/edit/delete draft are very common use cases as people would like to read before sending.

Point taken - Safe mode goes out this week.

You can - we have seen cases where people have deleted 1600 emails in one voice session. But as the pagination happens - it will be in batches, read/delete everything. We have to limit gmail's rate limits

That happens now - before Send/Delete it will ask for confirmation.

Not as of now.

That would be supercool - but not the focus point right now. Though I totally see myself using it.

Sorry for the bad experience. It is because of the sudden traffic. Looking at it.

Yes Yes! The MCP hackathon was our way in. Thank you, really appreciate the support.

I think the car dent story originally came from - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008239. As I clarified there - the dent happened before the April demo, during hackathon stress while taking out the car from parking.

But totally valid criticism about cognitive load - better example could be dog walking, cooking or screen free time.

Valid concern - April does not write emails for you unless you specifically ask for it. Users usually dictate what they want to reply.

But do you think a 'safe mode' - where April does only non destructive operation like read/summarize/draft/move emails to a folder would help you build trust?

It's in our pipeline - we can prioritize it to mitigate that fear.

Got it - makes sense. The laundry example is perfect. Moments where your hands are tied or when you want screen-free time

Yeah - April learns how you speak/correct your emails - it picks up your writing patterns and keeps evolving. The more you use it, the more it sounds like you rather than generic AI.

(cofounder here) Fair concern - cognitive distraction is real. We see it more like taking a phone call while driving (which people already do). We're purposely keeping interactions simple to make sure features aren't too distracting, and are working on a 'safe mode' that limits you to basic read-only operations while driving. We're actively researching attention management to make it simpler. Safety comes first.

(cofounder here) Honestly, we were hoping Gemini would nail this so we wouldn't have to build it ourselves, but here we are. The main difference is we're not bounded by Google's ecosystem - we're starting with Gmail but already working on Outlook and other integrations. Also, the goal is to build an executive assistant, not just a voice client for email and calendar.

Here is the submission of the hackathon which got us YC interview - https://youtu.be/6_Y_Xoj3q5A

I love your name, coincidentally the app mentioned here is called April - its voice only.

But for email companies - Superhuman is the most successful one.

Other solution which provide different features include Airmail, Sanebox, Mail0 to new a few - we feel this space need a bit of disruption as there is too much noise in emails while being one of the most important tool - we are trying by going voice first - will learn and implement based how it goes.

We didn't expect this will come on hackernews. But more on this - April is voice first app so you dont have to see/use your phone.

Crash was because of the panic - we were getting late and I reversed the car while taking a turn and didn't see the pillar - I crashed into it - this was before we started recording or started speaking with April.

But that is a good flag - will update the article with more details.