Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done

Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by portmanteaufu on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:27PM (#14207157)

I hope this is helpful feedback:

* There are several small typos on the page ("How does it works?") that distract from its content.

* The testimonials strike me as all having the same writer's voice.

* What appears to set "Audrey" aside from, say, Alexa is the promise that you can take a moment to train the AI when it misunderstands you. That's a great feature; I can tell Alexa that she was wrong (via the app), but that's tedious and may take months to see my feedback enacted. Immediately linking what I said to the desired outcome for future use would be ideal. I'd like to see an example of what that looks like for this app, even if it's just a mock-up.

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by bshimmin on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:17PM (#14207554)

The testimonials strike me as all having the same writer's voice.

Someone needs to come up with a service that generates authentic-sounding testimonials, complete with convincing headshots.

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by plttn on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:27PM (#14207609)

At the very least, one of them is obviously a headshot found from somewhere else. In general for a new service, I'd rather see no testimonials than testimonials of questionable authenticity.

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by cicero19 on Thursday April 27, 2017 @07:54AM (#14210772)

Agree. They should have known their technical audience would pick up on this.

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by ianmcgowan on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @09:12PM (#14208429)

"Sincerity is the key to success. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made"

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by throwanem on Thursday April 27, 2017 @05:27AM (#14210229)

Convincingly human headshots that aren't just misappropriated likenesses of a real person? Sounds like an ML master's thesis to me!

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by corobo on Thursday April 27, 2017 @08:49AM (#14211018)

It'd probably be easier to hire a bunch of models, cheaper too! :P

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by bshimmin on Thursday April 27, 2017 @10:53AM (#14211927)

No no, the point is that they're supposed to look convincing, not like models!

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by corobo on Thursday April 27, 2017 @10:56AM (#14211957)

Model doesn't need to mean the type you'd see on the catwalk at a fashion show, you could ask random people in the street if they'd take a quick headshot for a tenner even

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by jaredsohn on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:17PM (#14224851)

I was thinking of this as I was reading this thread (America's Voices in The Onion): https://triviahappy.com/articles/who-are-the-people-in-the-o...

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by davidyapdy on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:30PM (#14207183)

Thank you very much for the feedback. Will refill coffees and start working on those. We are sorry for the grammar, we will make those changes as soon as possible. Must have slip off our mind to get them checked due to caffeine overdose.

*Bow apologetically

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by souperman on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:01PM (#14207800)

Hi, I also noticed it says, "Set your routines with Audrey, such as like getting a Uber every morning." I think, "Set your routines with Audrey, like getting an Uber every morning." is a little clearer! App looks very cool though!

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by davidyapdy on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:05PM (#14207818)

Thanks! We've updated it!

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by rankam on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:15PM (#14207872)

The landing page copy is still really bad - "Whenever Audrey do not understand your request, you can teach it so that it can understand you the next time."

How am I supposed to trust that you are capable of building an AI when you can't get basic grammar correct? Don't build a marketing page when you're bad at marketing :)

Edit:

Just to clarify - I mean that the poor grammar is likely due to that fact that English probably isn't your first language and has no relationship to your abilities writing software. But, for consumer facing products such as yours, it's probably important that you get these small things right.

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by davidyapdy on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:22PM (#14207912)

Awwww, thanks. We are kidnapping an English professor right now to do the job. You folks deserve high-quality material and we have fail to deliver it. We are terribly sorry and will improve.

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by rankam on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:41PM (#14208000)

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but if you are, please know that my comment wasn't meant to minimize your accomplishment of building and releasing an app. I honestly want you to succeed and think it would be sad if that opportunity never presented itself simply because of poor grammar on a landing page.

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by davidyapdy on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:45PM (#14208023)

No no. I really do appreciate your comment. We're getting a person who is going to run through the landing page copy as soon as possible.

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by coffeevradar on Thursday April 27, 2017 @11:14AM (#14212090)

I also noticed a minor mistake on the automatic email acknowledging a signup to the waiting list.

Instead of saying 'merrier', as in more merry, it says 'marrier'.

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Re:Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to... by davidyapdy on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:36PM (#14207230)

We actually have a video showing how it works. It will be up on the site soon! I promise!

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