Automate your email with AI — agentic AI that helps you organize, write, search, schedule, and more with just a prompt
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Big launch today: Shortwave now integrates with @taskletai, our AI automation engine.
Your inbox now works for you 24x7 — automatically drafting replies, managing todos, and more.
Try it: ask "Connect to my email via Shortwave" at tasklet.ai
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Introducing the Shortwave AI Assistant
Use AI to search your email history, write emails in your voice, schedule meetings, and more.
Available to everyone today, for free: shortwave.com
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Do you use Gmail for work? Want something better?
We're offering $25 Amazon gift cards to new users who do a live onboarding onto Shortwave with our team over video 🙏
Just fill out this quick form to participate: forms.gle/1t24o281Ao1JZURUA
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Introducing AI Autocomplete ✨✍️💬
Shortwave now intelligently finishes your sentences. Just press tab.
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Today we are officially launching Shortwave 🥳 a brand new experience for your Gmail account. Shortwave helps you email 💌 smarter and faster, so you can not only be more productive, but actually enjoy your email!
Sign up and get started for free: shortwave.com/blog/introduci…
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👋 In for 2024:
- Batching email for focused work
- Setting work / life boundaries
- Learning every keyboard shortcut in Shortwave
- Using a personalized AI Assistant
- Stretching
- Making email delightful with GIFs & big emojis
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We wrote you an email listing all the reasons you should check us out on @ProductHunt today...but it ended up getting pretty long.
Good thing your favorite email app can summarize that for you 😼🪄 producthunt.com/posts/shortw…
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Today, Shortwave is coming out of stealth. Our mission is to ensure the future of messaging is open, decentralized, and secure. You can read more about what we’re up to and why in our new blog post: shortwave.com/blog/future-of…
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📬NEW – Mac + Windows native desktop apps
Shortwave’s native apps for @windows & @apple’s macOS bring you a seamless desktop experience with:
⏺ Links opened in your default browser
⏺ Blazing fast performance
⏺ Better OS integrations
Download here → shortwave.com/download
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You asked for it, we built it. New feature release alert: dark mode 😎
Just set your device to dark mode and Shortwave will automatically sync themes! Sign in and see for yourself shortwave.com
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Divide and conquer your inbox with Shortwave's new Inbox Splits 🗂 – launching today!
Focus your time & attention by dividing your inbox into tabs for important emails, specific senders, labels & more.
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Introducing the new Shortwave AI Assistant: now with multi-step reasoning, smarter AI search, larger context, and deeper integrations.
It’s the ultimate search, analysis, and productivity companion – not just a faster way to write emails!
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Goodbye beta, hello Android 1.0 👋🤖
We redesigned our Android app, packed it with new features, & cut load times by 90% to make it ready for the Play Store
See how our 1.0 release brings the best of Google’s Inbox app back to life on Android 🪦♻️📧
shortwave.com/blog/android-l…
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Announcing the Shortwave AI Assistant for iPhone 🎉
A pocket-sized ChatGPT for your email
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👋 If you're looking for something to fill that Inbox-sized hole in your heart
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022…
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📬 NEW – Connect the Shortwave AI with all your apps
Connect Hubspot, Notion, GitHub, Asana, Linear, Web browsing, Zapier, and more in 1 click, or hook up your own custom integration via MCP.
Then just write a prompt to automate workflows across apps.
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Launching today: 2 new powerful ways to bundle emails 🎁
✨ Magic labels — automatically label & bundle emails like newsletters, finance, travel, and more
🏷️ Custom label bundles — control how labels you've created show up in your inbox
Learn more here: shortwave.com/blog/magic-lab…
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Your email client shouldn't just be functional, it should be a joy to use 🌈
Give your inbox a fresh coat of paint with one of Shortwave’s 8 new custom themes
Available on web, desktop, iOS, and Android
(You'll want sound on for this one 😉🎶)
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Launch #5: 📝 Instant Summaries 📝
Every email thread in Shortwave is now automatically summarized!
The wall of text you really don’t want to read fully? We’ve got you covered.
shortwave.com/blog/instant-a…
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Try forwarding an email to a Shortwave.AI bot:
🔑 tldr@shortwave.ai summarizes emails, newsletters, or links (& YouTube!)
📆 cal@shortwave.ai pulls events & reminders from emails along with “Add To Google Calendar” links
Built with @langchain @hwchase17 @OpenAI
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Launching today - your Gmail labels now sync to Shortwave 🚀🏷
You spoke, we listened. We are constantly working to create a smarter, faster inbox - now the transition is seamless.
To get started simply log in to Shortwave using your Gmail account.
shortwave.com
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📬NEW – Organize your inbox with AI
Shortwave’s new AI Assistant v3 can instantly triage your inbox
In 1-click it can identify urgent emails, group threads into actionable todos, and sweep away clutter so you can get to inbox zero with zero effort
Use the ✨Organize inbox button ↓ to try this *right now*
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Shortwave is launching our biggest feature yet… Snail Mail!
We spend our time making email faster, but sometimes nothing beats the feeling of receiving good old-fashioned snail mail.
xn--3n8h6h.to is the slowest way to send a letter, for free
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🪦 RIP embarrassing emails
In (not so) loving memory of email slip-ups, share a time when you wished undo send existed.
In honor of Shortwave’s new launch of undo-send, we’ll be sending care packages to the craziest stories ⬇️
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We're excited to welcome @hiranya911 to the team! We couldn't be more excited to work with him again 😃.
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The Shortwave AI Assistant has arrived on Android 🎊
It’s like a pocket-sized executive assistant for your email!
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Next week we’ll be launching 5 major AI features in 5 days!
“AI Launch Week“ starts Monday, Jan 29
Why are we doing this? 🧵(1 / 5)
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If you’re looking for the ultimate Inbox by Gmail replacement, give Shortwave a try.
Read about how we’re resurrecting and improving on your favorite Inbox features below 📧
shortwave.com/blog/shortwave…
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Harness the magic of #AI with our latest feature — Smart Summaries — launching today 📜✨
Summaries save you precious time by intelligently capturing the main points of an email in just a few sentences.
Join the free beta 👉 shortwave.com
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We just upgraded the AI Assistant to GPT-4o.
It’s smarter now, and waaaaay faster 🏎️. Enjoy!
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📢 Announcing Shortwave's new affiliate program
Partner with us to earn up to 20% and help make email better for everyone.
Join today → forms.gle/Ad5zf23SvMnHP3mz7
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Looking for cutting-edge AI, networking, and fun in the Bay?
We're hosting an *AI Demo Night* with friends at @jamdotdev for our SF community🌉
📅 Aug 30th @ 6pm PT
📍@lightspeed SF office
📨 Limited spots — RSVP below
Let us know if you'll be there! 👋
lu.ma/5sveflxm
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We’ve built an exceptional remote team including many early @Firebase employees. We are all together today to celebrate Shortwave’s launch in Miami 🚀🌴. Thanks for helping us spread the word about Shortwave!
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Gather round for an art lesson from our designer @berlinjohnson!
Today she shares her very technical process on how to draw a derpy bird:
🥒 Draw a cucumber
🥔 Add a potato
🦈 and then a shark fin
🖊️ Use shapes as guide for the body
🪶 Add dots and lines for details
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Shortwave gives you an AI-powered executive assistant right in your email inbox.
Unlike a human EA, Shortwave’s assistant is available 24/7, has infinite patience, will never judge you, and speaks every language.
🧵 Here’s how it can save you an hour every day:
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Introducing team comments & email thread sharing 💬
Get the right teammates involved and bring everyone up to speed on an email thread fast with private team comments and live thread sharing 🧵
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New feature alert 📣 Block & unsubscribe
Guard your inbox against unwanted senders and noisy marketing emails with one-click block for senders & one-click unsubscribe for mailing lists
shortwave.com/blog/block-uns…
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1/ Want to make remote work feel less isolating? We sat down with @flippnflops, CEO of @gather_town to discuss the future of remote work and how to bridge the gap between remote workers and human connection. shortwave.com/blog/gather-ce…
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Launching today ✨ Explain with AI
Understand everything in your inbox by highlighting message text and clicking "Explain" for an in-place explanation of any concept or definition 🧠
Email like a genius with shortwave.com
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Not only can Shortwave manage your email, but it can now manage your Google Calendar!
Introducing seamless calendar event creation with our AI Assistant. Just say who and when, and you're all set.
"Coffee with Kim tomorrow morning?" Done. 📅✨
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Notice something new at the bottom of your emails? ✨👀
Instant AI replies are here to help you draft emails faster than ever!
Write a contextual reply using your unique voice and tone in one click with simple inline suggestions.
Available on all platforms
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We just launched a major redesign of our inbox 🚀
Threads and bundles are now shown side-by-side with your inbox when there's room, or in full-screen for smaller screens.
Here's a before-and-after comparison...
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New feature alert 📣 Add notes to your bundled threads!
Drag & drop related threads together, then add a quick note or a reminder for yourself so you can easily remember what's next on your to-do list.
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Our first product is a brand new inbox experience for your existing Gmail account. It is still being tested privately, but we are providing early access to a select set of individuals and companies. You can request access here: shortwave.com/?d
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Multi-select, meet AI 🤝
Starting today, you can run powerful AI actions over a specific set of emails.
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We believe you should actually enjoy your inbox — that's why we've been working hard to make Shortwave the most delightful email experience 🥳
Introducing your new favorite feature: 🎉 Funfetti Inbox 🎉
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New week, new feature! Say hello to pop-out threads 🍾
Compose new drafts & view any thread in a pop-out window to easily reference other emails as you read or write
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⚡Time for another round of updates!
In the past 2 weeks, we’ve made major changes to improve readability, signatures, and toasts across the app. Check out all the other features we’ve added, changed, and fixed: shortwave.com/changelog/
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What a day we had yesterday!
We launched our game-changing AI Assistant to bring you the smartest email app on planet Earth
We wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who gave it a spin— your feedback & support blew us away 🙌
For those who missed it: shortwave.com/blog/meet-your…
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Search smarter, not harder with Shortwave’s revamped Search. Read about how autocomplete, smart highlighting, and powerful new queries will take the pain out of finding threads. 🔍
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Today we launch our most requested feature this year: multi-select ✅
Select multiple threads at once to take bulk action and reach inbox zero faster than ever
Available today on web & Android (iOS coming soon)
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⚡ We’ve been hard at work making app performance snappy, and still shipping a bunch of improvements across all platforms!
You’ll see faster load times on iOS & web along with new features like custom schedules, calendar RSVP on iOS, and Android polish too.
Full details of all the new updates in our changelog 👇
shortwave.com/changelog/
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2023 was a huge year for Shortwave!
In the past year, our team of 10...
🚀 Launched 117 features
🛠️ Made 817 improvements
✅ Merged 4,638 PRs
🤖 Built the smartest AI email assistant
Read the roundup of everything new from 2023, and what’s next in 2024
shortwave.com/blog/2023-wrap…
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We just launched 2 new features to help you manage your inbox tasks: stars and todos
Here’s how to use them to transform your inbox from a humble communication tool to a robust hub for managing your daily tasks and projects 🧵
shortwave.com/blog/todos-and…
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Big news for iPhone users 🍎
We totally overhauled Shortwave for iOS!
Expect a new inbox design, streamlined navigation, bundle actions, and more. Plus, we've squashed dozens of bugs.
Give it a spin and see the difference 💫
apps.apple.com/us/app/shortw…
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We think Google’s Inbox app was one of the best email productivity tools ever made, so we used it as a starting point for Shortwave. With our Android launch, here are some of those popular Google Inbox features resurrected 🧵
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Introducing calendar RSVP in Shortwave 📅
Respond to calendar invites directly in the app — no more switching back & forth between your calendar and email. Try it out on desktop to streamline your scheduling process!
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While downloading the new desktop app, don’t forget the mobile app too!
Tap into your AI Assistant on the go with Shortwave for Android and iOS
App store → apps.apple.com/app/shortwave…
Google Play → play.google.com/store/apps/d…
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New feature alert 🚨 Smart commands for your email
Instantly take any action and prompt AI to help you better understand your inbox with new smart commands.
Start using your free AI email assistant at shortwave.com
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⚡ We’ve been a bit quiet on socials, but we’re still shipping!
Our latest changelog features new ways to block & unsubscribe, indicators for blocked tracking pixels, batched delivery for senders, and 10 other product improvements.
shortwave.com/changelog/
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Over the last month, our friend Abe has been hacking away at his very own AI Assistant 💫
He built an audio interface to a virtual assistant using a retro physical intercom and Shortwave's AI — how cool is that?!
Here’s how he did it 🪄piped.video/watch?v=-zDdpeTd…
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Shortwave is built and run on Shortwave.
Here are two of my favorite reasons for loving @Shortwave for email- quick "respond with emoji" and typing indicators - best of email and iMessage 🙂
This is from today's thread with @startupandrew, @nickgrossman and many others going over the amazing response from the community!
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Introducing Shortwave.AI email bots 🤖 Get started whether you’re a Shortwave user or not (yet), no signup needed—just send an email and get back a helpful response
tldr@shortwave.ai 🔑
Forward an email thread or a link (including YouTube!), get back a tl;dr summary
cal@shortwave.ai 📆
For all those soccer games, birthday parties, or hackathons that don’t have a calendar invite, get back a list of events along with “Add To Google Calendar” links
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Launching today 💸 Pro, Business, and Personal plans
We've added:
1️⃣ New business plans that support multiple accounts
2️⃣ A cheaper Personal plan
3️⃣ Annual billing discounts
For a detailed look at the new plans, check out our blog post ↓
shortwave.com/blog/new-prici…
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2022 was a busy year for Shortwave.
In the past year, our team of 13 has:
🚀 Launched 101 features
🛠️ Made 754 improvements
✅ Merged 3,891 PRs
It’s been less than one year since we launched, and we’re just getting started.
shortwave.com/blog/2022-year…
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As we’ve been researching AI for our own product, we discovered a lot of great apps that are revolutionizing how creators iterate and build.
Here our are top 6 recs for productivity AI apps:
(a thread 🧵)
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ICYMI - We launched 2 brand new native apps for Mac + Windows 🖥️
Download Shortwave for desktop: shortwave.com/download/
< 1 week from launch, and our new native @Shortwave desktop app already has more DAUs than our PWA did
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Thank you to everyone who supported & celebrated AI Launch Week with us!
We could fill an entire book with all the love you shared 🫶
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You might've seen our Smart Summaries launch yesterday. But did you know we also just redesigned our entire inbox?
Our team's been busy—check out the changes 👇
shortwave.com/changelog/
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We didn’t just launch a new service, we also made a friend. ♥️
Meet the official @shortwave Snail Mail™ mascot.
The only problem… our mascot needs a name! We’re leaning towards either "Molly Usk" or Shelby.
Got something better? Let us know 👇🐌
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Introducing multi-account support 👯♂️ Now you can quickly switch between all of your Gmail accounts in Shortwave
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2024 was transformative for Shortwave
In 12 months, we...
🚢 Shipped 96 features
🛠️ Made 713 improvements
✅ Merged 5,281 PRs
🤖 Built the best AI-native email experience for business
Read our 2024 feature roundup and see what's in store for 2025
→ shortwave.com/blog/2024-new-…
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Notice anything new in your sidebar today? ⬅️👀
You can now view trash and spam directly in Shortwave!
We also added a way to view all of your labels without having to add them as favorites or jump into settings.
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Email smarter, not just faster with Shortwave! piped.video/zKVIwhtP52E
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Introducing the new AI-powered about: search term
Find emails fast with a simple description instead of exact keywords
Try searching about:"rebrand project updates" or about:"pricing feedback"
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The AI revolution is coming for your email
businessinsider.com/ai-email…
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⚡Latest changelog is live, packed with some exciting new features!
📅 Calendar RSVP
🔄 Android account switching
📪 Mark threads unread
💌 Shiny new invite buttons
Check out the full list of updates shortwave.com/changelog/
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Adding the joy of chat to the power of email ✨ Typing indicators and real-time messages bring your email up to speed (literally) with modern chat for seamless conversations!
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Our team utilizes a channel called "Love It" in our workspace ❤️ It's a space to share positive feedback we've gotten from users, or to thank a teammate for going above and beyond!
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Happy Friday Shortwavers 👋
We've got a pile of swag that needs a home...
Here's the deal: the first 20 users who respond to this tweet with a screenshot of Inbox Zero in Shortwave get a branded hoodie or t-shirt.
Show us what ya got 😎 ✉️
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Still thinking you’re going to read those newsletters that have been sitting in your inbox all week?
We generated Smart Summaries for you, so you can decide if you actually want to read them (or if they’re ready for the archive).
1) @MorningBrew
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Reclaim your time – and your attention – with batched delivery, a new feature we’re launching today that lets you control when emails enter your inbox
shortwave.com/blog/batched-d…
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We have some swag to #giveaway for today’s launch —️ a cozy mug to sip from as you kick back & read your email summaries ☕️ To get one:
1️⃣ Like this tweet
2️⃣ Post a screenshot of your favorite Smart Summary and tag @shortwave
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tap tap tap.... is this thing on?
In case you didn't hear, AI is kind of a thing now.
Also, unless you're very special, email isn't the most joyous thing you've ever done with your life.
SO.... we (@shortwave) took AI and added it to your email.
Here's the 🔑 points (so far):
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The Shortwave team gets together every few months for some work and fun, but in between we enjoy the flexibility of remote work 🧑💻 Here is Sophia's work from home set-up in Washington. Tweet us a pic of yours!
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