👋 Hey Hunters!
I'm Will, one of the founders at Lavender alongside @will_allred + @casey_corvino.
We're excited to introduce what we've been working on this year: a pivot we made as a result of COVID.
We thought we could help remote-first workers send more effective, emotionally intelligent emails using some of the writing tech we had been building for marketers.
Over the past several months that initial goal as evolved into an entire ecosystem of tools and a broader mission of building the most useful email assistant available.
Now more than ever people are spending more time in their inbox. We want to help make the email experience more pleasant for both the sender and the recipient.
Lavender helps you send better emails faster.
Thoughtful, high EQ, emails that are considerate of the reader.
It's a browser extension that works with GSuite and Outlook 365, and is equal parts writing and productivity assistant.
It analyzes your writing and coaches you in real time, then leverages GPT-3 to help make it more impactful.
Lavender's unique combination of tools work together to augment your email abilities.
Instead of bouncing around to different tools, we want to keep you in your inbox and in your flow state with:
✅ Automatic Email Address Verification
🤝 Rapport-building social insights on your recipient and their company
🔍 Real-time email analysis and coaching
🅰 An email score for your chance of getting a positive reply
💌 Tone, sentiment, formality, and best-practices check
🚫 Highlighting problematic sentences
🙅♀️ Checks to make sure you won't land in spam
🤖 One click corrections to make your email more confident and concise
🥰 Subject Line Analysis
📱 Mobile Preview + Editor
🥳 Easy-Insert GIFs with emotion analysis
⏰ Open Awareness
📬 Analysis and suggestions on how to respond to inbound emails
Our early users find using Lavender makes their emails more effective and mobile optimized. They're getting higher open rates, more replies, and ultimately booking more meetings and forming better relationships.
They're calling it their "secret weapon", "useful from the first email", "the most fun" they've had writing emails, and a "fire" product that they "love".
See why with your first two months free when you sign up for Lavender Unlimited. Just enter PRODUCTHUNT during your onboarding.
We're excited to get your feedback!
To kick things off we're hosting a virtual launch party on Twitch starting at 9am PST. Join us for a live DJ playing some music to kickoff your work day at https://lounge.trylavender.com
@will_allred@casey_corvino@mballance@ni_e_sha I sent you an email but want to also follow up here. Somehow the promo code didn't save for you, but it's fixed now and the free months have been added to your account.
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This is seriously one of my very favorite things that I've been using. Drop what you're doing and check this out, your emails and their recipients will thank you for it!
@amy_volas Amy! Always so appreciative of your support and being a user of our product. To rank it among your favorite things is seriously so rewarding to hear. Thank you! 💜💜
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@amy_volas Thanks for the support, Amy! See you this thursday on TNS!
@amy_volas Amy! Thank you so much for all of your continued support! We appreciate you coming out to support us more than words can express. Thursday night sales is a weekly religion at this point, and I can't wait for the Ugly Sweater party this week! It's going to be such a wonderful celebration of the truly amazing community that you and Scott have built. Thanks again. 💜💜
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Exciting product. I could definitely see our team using it if we could get control over the context in which we use your software. Are you planning to release an API in the near future?
@julian_singh_ Hey Julian, thanks for the interest. We do have many ideas around API functionality and use case, but can’t say it’s something that’s immediate.
Some of what we are working on adding into Teams/Enterprise plans is more customization of the scoring algorithm either manually or by crawling historic wins.
I’m curious the functionality you’re looking for. Happy to dive deeper via email:
WMBtrylavender
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@mballance Thanks for getting back @ me William. I think you forgot to complete your email :-D
?makers I was really excited to use this but oddly after setting up and adding trial credit card, go to click 'Outlook' and opens free version, since i use the web-based Outlook for Business I assumed it would work... but it just redirects to the free Outlook and oddly created an outlook account from my logged in personal Microsoft account (which I did not log in and give permissions to when starting). I have tried forcing it to open in web outlook even with the ?lv=true tag (similar to the link to free outlook) and started this whole process by signing in via Microsoft account. Maybe someone can shed some light on their experience with Outlook web? Additionally I'm using the latest version of Edge Chromium (and will. try in Chrome). Thanks in advance.
@ridgeway Hey Ridge! I'm sorry you're having issue here. Honestly the context is super helpful for engineering. I've send them a screenshot. We will absolutely get this figured out. Do you mind emailing me at will.allred@trylavender.com to trouble shoot?
Been using Lavender for the past few months and it's been incredible to see the growth from a product standpoint. This team really understands the future of the inbox, it's a great combination of all things that help you write a great email.
@waitrewindthat Christopher, wow! Thank you for these words. I remember in college I thought about what the future of email would look like, and how it would be so hard to be the company to reinvent it. Fast forward and that's what we're trying to do! You get it!
@waitrewindthat I know how in depth you go with tech. This holds a lot of weight with out team. Thank you for the kind words. I know you get it more than most. <3
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@will_allred You bet! Gotta support my ATLiens too.
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I've been using Lavender for a couple of months now. It's new. It's useful. It works. And it keeps getting better. We live in a world where getting your message right the very first time means more than ever. Lavender has helped me improve the engagement I get in regular newsletters and in personal correspondence. The product gives me instant feedback on how likely the message I craft is likely to get seen, get read, and get acted upon. Since it uses machine learning, the results just keep getting better. Lots of tools are working in the 'communications improvement' space. I like Lavender's trajectory because it's all about making meaningful connections with others, not spamming or manipulating them. This is a tool I plan to use for a long time.
@mikewittenstein Mike! Thanks so much for sharing some #LavenderLove! As you said we are pushing the team to keep releasing new features and integrations rapidly. In the coming weeks we'll be intertwined even deeper into the sales stack with some integration announcements. Appreciate it!
@mikewittenstein Wow, thanks Mike! One thing that we view as key to our product is the awareness factor.
A lot of people just aren't aware of writing mistake or a unintentional tone. It's not just about doing it for you (we do that) it's about making you a better writer in the process.
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Lavender is my go to tool for crafting succinct emails. My emails have better open rates thanks to Lavender!
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