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by notnotrishi 792 days ago
Also a bit of a background --

2018-19: I started working on the problem of automatically extracting all action items from all tools I use (email, slack, GitHub etc.), and getting them in one place. I’d built a few different solutions using NLP (using techniques available back then). Things sort-of worked, but there were always so many edge cases — early users churned soon.

2020-21: Graduate student at an AI lab — Mila, Quebec (dropped out eventually) — went there primarily to learn new techniques to build some thing in this space. Around mid-2021 I decided to put this on hold, and went on to work at Beeper (beeper.com) till recently.