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We fixed email. And no, it's not another mail app Forage is an AI that plugs right into your Gmail account. It filters out low-priority mail, and sends you a daily summary, including TLDRs of your newsletters. No need to change how you do email. It learns your preferences + keeps you in control with custom rules. Email is the glue that holds our lives together, but our inboxes are overwhelmed with notifications, receipts, calendar invites, promotions, and more. Existing mail apps and keyboard shortcuts force us to battle through our inbox one. message. at. a. time. That changes today.
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(very) soon!
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oh yeah i saw that screenshot a few weeks ago! def can help with that. i'll lyk when it's ready.
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it's coming!
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yep! we just had someone use it to clear out 50K emails during testing. it only took them 17 minutes and they unsubscribed from a lot of unwanted senders along the way.
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we've been working on this deep clean feature that can get you to inbox zero even if you have 10K+ emails it's been a huge bet for us to make bc it was not easy to design and build but now it's working, and it's pretty damn cool. we just had a tester clear out 7K emails in 7 mins.
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hahaha you're not wrong! experimenting with posting across different sites.
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…we decided we didn't want to build anything that could have been built a year ago. It had to be uniquely enabled by LLMs or we wouldn't touch it. We asked ourselves how LLMs would affect our everyday lives, and email jumped out as an obvious area for improvement. That's how we got started on @forage, an AI that solves email overwhelm. I'm building in public as I surf this wave. Follow me to keep up with our journey. 2/2
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I've launched many products - some did well, some fell flat. The difference? Whether I caught the wave. Startups are like surfing: • The wave is the market opportunity • The surfboard is your product So, how do you spot an opportunity? Here's what you need to know: Many new founders obsess over building the perfect surfboard. They spend months optimizing every detail - but they never stop to ask: Is there even a wave to ride? The truth is, no matter how great your surfboard is, you're going nowhere without a wave. Waves come from disruption - the iPhone created massive ripples across industries, ChatGPT is doing it now, and regulatory changes create new opportunities. The key is asking the right questions: • Can I get in the water in time to catch the wave? (Speed to market) • Am I on the beach watching others ride it? (Too late) • Am I in the water, but the wave isn't here? (Too early) LLMs are causing a wave right now that will touch every industry. During our latest pivot… 1/2
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wow, that's one of the wilder ones i've heard! had you just moved to a new city?
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tariffs alone dont make sense but as part of a multi-pronged strategy there’s a case to be made: - tariffs to bring real wages back to US - slash gov spending - move labor from public to private sector - reduce taxes - slash regulations to drive investment from the admin: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sBTMeYWFj50
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sweet! we can def help with that :)
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this is one of the wildest things i did in my early founder journey
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...startups often require founders to go all-in. And we didn't hesitate. I was 23 at the time, but I'd do it again now at 31. I’m still building. Still obsessed. I'm not living out of a WeWork anymore. But I'm just as obsessed with my current product @forage, an AI that solves email overwhelm. 2/2
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I once lived in a WeWork to build a startup. We were building tools for Airbnb hosts, so we became hosts ourselves. We had just set up 28 apartments in Philly and we were tight on cash. The first night we were 100% booked, we didn't have a place to stay...so we slept at the office. Then we realized, we could just live there to save money. We brought in a mattress. Taped up the motion sensors. We’d work all day building the product, then crash on a mattress in our "office". We even papered up the glass walls so people wouldn't see us. We lived out of suitcases. Showered at nearby gyms. And for what? We had no salary. No safety net. Just a deep belief that we were building something that mattered. It wasn’t glamorous. It wasn’t even legal. But it was necessary to get us off the ground. I’m not saying you have to live in a WeWork to build a startup. But... 1/2
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That’s what “do things that don’t scale” really means. And it’s what taught me the first rule of product: You don’t understand the pain until you’ve felt it yourself. It’s a lesson I’ve carried into building Forage - where we obsess over everyone's unique relationship to email just as deeply. We sit down next to people and look at their inbox with them. To understand how they think about it, and what system they've created (or haven't). Forage Mail is an AI that saves people hours every day by streamlining their email. We obsess over email so you don't have to. Try it for free: foragemail.com 2/2
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I once lived in Airbnbs for months - not to travel, but to build a startup. Everything I owned fit in my backpack. Every 3–5 days, I’d pack up and move again. New place. New host. New chaos. Why? Because our product was for Airbnb hosts/guests - and we weren’t hosts ourselves. So we became the customer. We wanted to solve turnover scheduling, cleaning, and guest comms. But the pain points weren’t obvious from the outside. So we immersed ourselves in the world of 2015 Airbnb: • Misrepresented listings • Incomplete cleanings and angry guests • Hosts sharing horror stories of past bookings • Hosts forgetting to leave the keys out (we got locked out at 2AM) Later, we became hosts ourselves. We were Superhosts. We understood the mess, the stress, the last-minute fire drills - because we LIVED them. It was exhausting. Expensive. Totally not scalable. But it gave us an edge - we saw what others didn’t... 1/2
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technically dark forest bc it’s wide open and not gate kept. but feels cozy bc it’s so small.
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higher mind virus
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lol i thought it was an ai pendant
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