my lease was up. when i moved in last year, i paid an extra half month's rent for the unit i'm in because the location was perfect. i didn't want to give it up. but the offer to renew came in w a $120/mo increase. i would've paid the increase because i didn't want to go thru the hassle of moving. but i read about how i shouldn't compromise. also if i don't try the answer is always no. so, i used meta ai to help me craft an email to my landlord. i wasn't happy w the email. i remembered reading chris voss' never split the difference. i wanted to use some of the techniques in the email. this started my journey to try different llms and evaluate their effectiveness. once i had a satisfactory email, i sent it over. no response. i grew more anxious as the renewal offer deadline drew closer. i stalked the gm of the property on linkedin and emailed her. the next day, she responded and invited me to her office to meet. because they didn't typically negotiate, i knew then there's a high chance she'd accept my offer. i renewed at the same rent which meant in a rising rent environment i'm paying a lower rent than the market rate. this made me wonder if others might find similar techniques useful in various situations. i decided to build yesr, an AI negotiation coach. yesr was trained to offer guidance for * salary negotiations * home buying/selling * car purchase * rent negotiations but users have also used yesr to negotiate project contracts, get a better fundraising valuation, sell new products, land a bigger role, and play more video games recently, i used yesr to negotiate a saas vendor contract renewal and ended up getting more features while saving close to $65k/y compared to list price i hope you find yesr as useful as i do. i'd love your feedback on what's the one thing that would make yesr significantly more valuable to you

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