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AI · February 22, 2024

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BreakRoom, draft messages/documents using the information in your files

Hi HN! BreakRoom is a tool that lets you upload files, then uses the information in them to draft messages, responses, and other types of documents. I felt like existing AI tools require careful prompting to get usable results, making them hard to use for less tech/AI savvy users. I built BreakRoom to let users get usable results with very little prompt engineering — it uses information from your repository of files when relevant, and has a pre-written set of chain-of-thought prompts for each use-case. Full transparency, I wanted to build a tool that did all this directly within a Gmail…

BreakRoom, draft messages/documents using the information in your files launched on February 22, 2024 with 9 votes, #1,397 of 3,962 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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Hi HN! BreakRoom is a tool that lets you upload files, then uses the information in them to draft messages, responses, and other types of documents. I felt like existing AI tools require careful prompting to get usable results, making them hard to use for less tech/AI savvy users. I built BreakRoom to let users…

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