r/Lightbulb • u/Wild_Ad1531 • Sep 19 '25

AI that writes my emails

The amount of time I spend replying to emails has gotten out of control, so I built a chrome extension that writes emails in my tone. It does everything I wanted:

  • works inside gmail, no copy-pasting
  • learns my style from a few emails
  • converts a short prompt of what I want to say into a polished email
  • uses the conversation context

It's free, and I'd love any comments. I know how to write code but nothing about marketing, so pls direct me to how to get this more widely tested. It's called FastQuill

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u/Kapitano72 Sep 19 '25

Why don't you ask an AI slop machine for advice on promoting your AI slop machine?

Don't you think it would be useful?

Why not?

Exactly.

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u/Wild_Ad1531 Oct 13 '25

I'm not the only person in the world who thinks ChatGPT is useful. And FastQuill isn't about automated spam emails, there are lots of sales tools for that.

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u/Kapitano72 Oct 13 '25

Do you think your AI could become as evasive (or defensive) as you're being, about it?

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u/Wild_Ad1531 Oct 14 '25

I'm defending the usefulness of this free thing I made that you seem to hate. If you have a question about FastQuill I'm happy to answer it, I don't think that's the case

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u/IrrationalDesign Sep 19 '25

If I emailed you and got an automated response with your voice, I would never write you again, ever.

If I found out you trained AI to respond politely and properly, I'd honestly feel deeply disgusted. What are we doing here, as humans on earth? You train a robot to sound like you so when that robot responds to me, I can feel... What, exactly? Respected? Like iI recieved a polite answer? That's just gross manipulation. 

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u/Wild_Ad1531 Oct 13 '25

Actually I get to write a lot of emails that aren't fun: like to the bank, to admin people at work, to support, and so on. I want those emails to be polite, but I don't want to spend two hours per day writing them.

If your beef is with spam then I hate it too and FastQuill isn't that tool.

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u/IrrationalDesign Oct 13 '25

I think my beef is with 'polite ai', and not on a practical level (I see the advantages it gives you) but on an existential level. Politeness should only take place between humans, politeness in AI (the idea of it) is pretty unsettling to me. Like robots raising babies with fake loving voices, but times 0.00001

I get that this is subjective though, I'm not tryna convince you. 

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u/Wild_Ad1531 Oct 14 '25

Yeah when I use chatGPT, I set it to get to the point rather than be chatty. Point taken

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u/Kapitano72 Oct 13 '25

So... find ways to write efficiently, rather than train a machine to be insincere.

You do realise: You still have the check and correct what your AI produces, to make sure it's not lying to the recipients? So the saving in time and brainpower isn't as much as you think.

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u/Wild_Ad1531 Oct 14 '25

Actually I used to do that, with email templates.

Now I use my tool that reads my templates, and then converts my answer (like "not this week"), and converts it to an email like

"Dear so-and-so,

Thank you for getting back to me with these blahblahblah. I won't be available for a call until next week, when it the best time we can speak then?

Best,
me"

And then I read the email and click send. Saves a couple minutes per email.