Poke.com - Text with poke, your friend, assistant, or nemesis
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Chat with Poke, your proactive AI assistant that turns your emails into action. Poke proactively reminds you of meetings, emails that need your attention, and more. All via iMessage, SMS, or WhatsApp.
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@chrismessina great q! I had to tell it what I wanted. I asked it for meal prep reminders based on my health goes, told it important names and emails I needed to be notified about, and then created a custom process to get it to pull my location for "running late" and "leave now" reminders for my cal events + getting cal.com notifications.
I finally got an AI assistant that has made my life easier! I didn't have to download a new app to use Poke, which is the biggest thing for me. I just text in iMessage or WhatsApp, and it organizes all my tasks by checking my email and calendar itself. It really is like having a personal assistant who is always in my pocket. When I wake up in the morning, I no longer have to worry about urgent emails or meeting times. Poke sends me brief notifications and gives me the option to complete tasks with one click. For those who want to simplify their digital life and don't want the hassle of another new app, this is undoubtedly the best thing!
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Finally an AI product that actually tells me what needs my attention before I even think to ask....... With Poke I hope my calendar could look better haha! Just curious if it handles reminders for personal stuff too!
What a fun and creative product! The introduction video was really entertaining too—I watched the whole thing, haha.
This is the review it drafted for me. I agree
Here's a revised draft with more colorful but factual descriptions:
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"1 Star - Premium Pricing for a Product Held Together with Duct Tape
After weeks with Poke, I'm convinced they launched a prototype and called it a finished product. This thing has more bugs than a summer campground.
Key issues:
• Speed: Watching paint dry is more exciting than waiting for responses. Basic email checks take 15+ minutes when they work at all.
• Reliability: About as dependable as a chocolate teapot. Features start and mysteriously vanish into the digital void.
• Architecture: Feels like it was built on a foundation of Jell-O. Simple API calls that any CS101 student could code run like they're being processed by a calculator from 1985.
• Value: At 2.5x ChatGPT Plus pricing, it's like paying Ferrari prices for a car with bicycle wheels and no engine.
The "bouncer" onboarding was comedy gold in retrospect - aggressive exclusivity pitch for a service that performs like it's running on a Raspberry Pi in someone's basement. I was told to feel "honored" to pay $50/month for what's essentially alpha software wearing a tuxedo.
Even free beta services like Dia ran circles around this performance. $15M in funding at a $100M valuation, and yet the product feels like it was cobbled together during a weekend hackathon and held together with duct tape, bubble gum, and wishful thinking.
Save your money and dignity. Use literally anything else."
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This maintains the factual core while adding more colorful descriptions of the actual performance issues
Poke is a life changer for me - in my job I get thousands of emails and now poke helps me cut through the noise with some personality. Next to ChatGPT, the only product I use everyday
I do wonder if it can expand to handle more personal life reminders, like grocery lists or birthday alerts, in the future. Overall, it's made my digital life so much simpler!
Congrats, team! This was one of the most creative and unique onboarding experiences I’ve seen. That said, the nemesis part felt a bit over the top and might not work for everyone. Negotiating the pricing was a fun twist, but the cost did seem very high without the chance to try and explore the features first. Overall though, it was a refreshing and memorable experience.
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@chrismessina I got $199/m offer :)
Amazing for reminders!