You cannot change your google email itself .. because there's no other reference to identify you with them. But you can use your email as the "inbox" for all other services. OpenAI doesn't have an "inbox" .. they accept other "inboxes" so they should allow you to change it.
According to Gemini, it's because OpenAI uses the email as the unique identifier of the user. But if that were the case, it's probably an week's project for a single engineer at most. I thought there was a better reason for this like some security measure for such a fast growing company, it never occurred to me that the reason could be so simple
My five cents for a guess: they've used the email as an index somewhere, which massive amount of data now depends on and they keep pushing forward the need of migrating away from that because it'll be painful and take long time.
That's a good guess .. but I bet they are also paying price for this in support costs .. I'd be curious what percentage of their support tickets are related to this (also the require you to cancel subscription, create a new account, create a new subscription if you want to change a pro account)
Yeah, but imagine the first engineers at ChatGPT back in 2021, some thrown together group of people who knew frontend the best from OpenAI, a research lab, to create a quick prototype UI for chatting with a text generating ML model. Of course they'll take some shortcuts, that's to be expected. All of this is just guesses though, but seen similar things play out many times. Of course, at one point someone needs to step in and pause for a moment to plan ahead for a bit, but depending on the leadership, it isn't always so easy to do.
We send & receive a lot of emails internally. One of the first things we have to do in every project is build sending & receiving emails. So this is open source and reusable so that every new project can use it.
Please try it out, give feedback and contribute.
Next:
- Templated emails (AWS only)
- Simple editor (God knows we had to do it more than a few times) & AWS sucks at it.
This is really novel. I like it. I've never gone this far. I just lump everything together. I've used tear-able notebooks before for the reason of moving them around but never stopped to consciously think about it the way you did.
I noticed you didn't say anything about digital writing, about half of my writings are in digital format. I do try to write the full idea that comes to mind before ending my writing session.
If the digital writings are incomplete and you still need to work with them, you can print them out and put them in the bins to work with later. (You can cut the printouts into paragraphs or other smaller chunks to work with them in the bins, by combining the pieces with other jots. And if they are related to or could be used with more than one project, just print out more copies.)
Likewise, if the digital files are ideas that you capture to Notion (for example) only when your notebook is unavailable, then you simply remember to print out whatever you have to "update" your bin whenever you start working with that project again. Still, if you're only capturing digitally because you don't have your notebook with you, then learning to capture each idea on its own paper and sorting into bins later may obviate the need to capture into the digital format at all, and you can do almost anything on paper as you apparently desire to.
But if the idea is that you capture on paper and then import into the digital realm to work with everything there, then just use the bins to capture the discrete ideas into what are effectively multiple inboxes, and then periodically import all the jots in a particular bin into the digital project at once (by scanning/OCR, dictating, or typing into whatever system you use, such as Notion).
From your original post I gathered that you were capturing and working on paper (and preferred to do so, perhaps publishing or storing final drafts digitally) — and I figured that, at least while drafting, you wanted everything in one place, such that not having your working notebook would throw a wrench into the system. That was one of the same problems I had. Moving to my current system solved that issue.
One hitch is figuring out how to regularly "visit" or process each bin. Another is figuring out where and how to store your bins. So just keep those points in mind.
This! Data! okay, so it's actually rare to get there .. and you'd need skills to get there .. wouldn't it be better to push harder for compounded results?
While $10K was a rough number, the same can be said about $20K .. it "should be", "relatively easier" to get to that solo .. the point is should you aim for that, or aim for much bigger .. which will mak you realistically hit that goal .. and my perspective had been that aiming big, while starting small (smallest complete unit to get you to a reasonable income). What you do after is another story.
