As part of my 12 Projects in 12 Months commitment:

Per my previous post about getting clarity on my content strategy, I need to be creating more products. So I’m going to do 12 SaaS projects in 2023. Plan To Do It There’s no fixed schedule and I plan to do a rough cadence of 1 project a month. But if I do 2 projects in a single month, or 3, then I can spend the extra time created doing more marketing…

My first project of this year is Rage Filter, the AI that’ll let you say all the bad sh** you want to your coworkers without any consequence.

Motivation

I made this as a joke but not as a joke where sometimes, my limbic system just wants to tell off some coworker asking some dumb question. Or multiple people making unreasonable requests to me within 5 minutes. The thing is, even if I suppress my rage, 2 things will happen:

  • Inevitably, only 80-90% is suppressed. So it can still come through as passive-aggressive.
  • I’ll get a fucking aneurysm if I can’t even get the catharsis to type out whatever the fuck I want.

The healthy thing to do to deal with work-related bullshit is to read EQ 2.0 and work on my interpersonal skills.

But it’s 2023, so who needs that shit?

The coping mechanism I chose is to use AI to reword the shit I wanted to say anyway so that it comes out in a good, professional manner. For example, our project is going pretty poorly right now and someone told me: “this isn’t good.”

I wanted to reply:

no shit this isn’t fucking good

It turned it into

I understand this situation isn’t ideal.

Insane.

I’ll keep using this going forward.

Motivation — TLDR Version

My coworkers.

How To Use

Simply log onto your Slack or Teams web app after installing the Chrome extension, say whatever you want in your message box and press ctrl+shift+e and the AI will rephrase your wording to something more professional.

Don’t like it? Simply ctrl+z to undo the AI edits and ctrl+shift+e again to mulligan another rephrasing.

NOTE: Since MS Teams Enterprise has JS that’ll basically undo any interventions you do for the DOM, I added a functionality where if you’re on MS Teams and you press ctrl+shift+e, it’ll also have a popup that you can just highlight copy/paste to replace your message. Dismiss the popup simply by clicking away.

On the non-enterprise MS Teams as a result, the message box’s text will be replaced as normal, but you’ll also get a popup for the replacement text. Hopefully this isn’t too annoying since you can literally click anywhere on the screen and it’ll go away. More improvements / refinements on this later. But hey, it’s only the first day I am releasing this app, so whatever.

Why Web App?

It is too much work for me to do if I have to maintain desktop apps for Mac + Linux + Windows for Slack + Teams ( + Skype and others in the future) where I need to make sure on every single platform, I am supporting every single app.

Having a Chrome Extension + WebApp unifies everything to Javascript and I just need to handle each app differently. Other words, web app is about 3-5X less work to maintain.

And if I’m going to do another 11 projects this year, I gotta be able to do things that maybe are less optimal but fast.