Show HN: Praxos – Webhooks for Your Life
Hello HN, Lucas and Soheil here from Praxos (https://mypraxos.com/)! We’ve been working on an AI personal assistant for a while now, and today we're sharing about our new webhooks feature with you.
You can now add webhooks and triggers by asking Praxos over text or voice to set them up for you. Webhooks listen for conditions that, when they happen, trigger another action. Webhooks can execute one time or be indefinite. They can execute any action currently supported by Praxos.
They are implemented for email and calendar (Gmail, Outlook), Notion, Slack, Discord, Trello, Dropbox, Drive, iMessage, Whatsapp and Telegram.
Examples include:
–"When a new task is added to my Trello ‘Urgent’ list, create a two-hour block on my Google Calendar within my next work window, and send me a reminder as soon as it happens. " [this ties nicely to the next one]
–"If my calendar says I’m in a focus block, auto-reply on Slack saying I’m working on the latest Trello Urgent task."
–“When a meeting transcript is ready from Fireflies and lands on my email, extract decisions and next steps, then post a 5-bullet summary in #team-updates on Slack” [ties to next point].
–“When a meeting transcript from work finishes processing, summarize it, and post key decisions to Slack. But delay the notification until after my kid’s bedtime. If the summary includes tasks due tomorrow, block off my calendar in the morning and text me a reminder after I wake up.”
–"My goal is to read 12 books this year. Every month, send me a list of 10 books and their links to Goodreads based on what I like. Every Saturday morning, ask me how far along I am with my reading. If you find I purchased a book (i.e.: from checking my email) then add it to my reading list, and ask me if I've started reading it."
–"Every time I get a receipt from Uber Eats or Doordash, extract the date, bill, and meal and add those to my personal finances spreadsheet on Google Sheets."
–“When a new transaction appears in my bank email or statement, extract the merchant, category, and amount, then log it in my ‘Spending Tracker’ Google Sheet. If total monthly spend crosses my budget limit, post a summary to my private WhatsApp chat with the top three categories that caused it.”
–"Remind me to pay my credit card and bills each time a new email comes in. Ask me if I have done so one date later if I don't tell you I already have done this."
–“At month-end, compile all financial logs from Sheets, receipts, and transcripts of my finance calls, then generate a single ‘Monthly Snapshot’ PDF. If my savings rate improved, add a green badge, and congratulate me. If it worsened, send me a summary with trends.”
–"Every Sunday, check my latest additions to Google Photos and send a curation to my mom and grandma over Whatsapp."
–"Review user feedback on the Praxos Discord channel and add it to our User Feedback page on Notion. Keep a counter for repeat requests."
–"If I receive an email from Lucas, and I'm coding, respond to him and tell him I'm busy. Also remind him to check what I'm up to on Trello."
Curious? Try it out for free for 7 days at https://app.mypraxos.com/sign-up!
This sounds like the kind of assistant I've been looking for. However, a deal breaker for me is whether it can actually read and parse documents it has access to. Consider for example that I may have a directory in Drive with a set of financial statements. I don't want the assistant to just store a new PDF there. I need it to extract that data and also extract the data from all my statements. How well can it do this?
We're excellent at this. This product is spun out of our infrastructure product, which focused on document parsing and memory. Those two things are core to our identity. Try it out. I am confident we can deliver a great experience :)
Are these triggers something I have to set on the app, like on Zapier? because that seems pretty annoying to do for different apps
No, the triggers are conversational. You text / send Praxos a voice note and it creates them for you. We're also working on a UI view so you can see them and edit them without texting again.