I hate this so much. I will pay for a service that takes all these content-free messages and goes to the website and logs in and extracts the actual message content and puts it in my inbox. Anyone want to make that?
I actually think there is a more general opportunity here with AI. Every app and website and UI I use is optimized by a gaggle of PMs to achieve business objectives that don't necessarily benefit me. AI is getting to the point where soon it will be able to use these non-aligned UIs for me, and present to me a much simpler UI customized just for me, that does what I actually want and no more.
You can probably do this fairly easily already, like this:
- Fetch your emails using any of the common local mail sync tools
- Some processing to clean up the plaintext version, may not be necessary even
- Send it to an LLM to extract a link
- Open up a headless browser, trigger something like SingleFile to extract its content.
Though you'll have to keep the cookie refreshed, but if it is initially logged in, this should be fine since you can also program something to keep refreshing every once in a while.
I actually think there is a more general opportunity here with AI. Every app and website and UI I use is optimized by a gaggle of PMs to achieve business objectives that don't necessarily benefit me. AI is getting to the point where soon it will be able to use these non-aligned UIs for me, and present to me a much simpler UI customized just for me, that does what I actually want and no more.