hey.com is charging that much.
Just curious how many would be fine with paying $99 per annum for email service for which pretty much 99.99% of the population does NOT pay.
Ask HN: Will you pay $99 pa for email service?
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Re: Ask HN: Will you pay $99 pa for email service?
#2I pay 4 Euro ($4.50) per month currently and for at least the last 10 years. Plus $22/year for the email client (postbox). Our work email is an additional $20/year per account. $99 wouldn't be a stretch. The $99 sounds much, but converted to $9/month it's similar to Netflix or Spotify and a 5% gain in email productivity would be worth it. (From their annoucement video the service doesn't fit my email work style.)
Re: Ask HN: Will you pay $99 pa for email service?
#3Yes, but not really for the email service. The email side of things is pretty boring. The way I see it is that if 'focus mode' saves me an hour or two a week, and makes me actually reply to people more quickly, then $99 is a bargain.
Re: Ask HN: Will you pay $99 pa for email service?
#4I'm currently paying for Superhuman, which is $30/month. I really really like it, though it's not even a full service like hey (it still depends on Gmail). I'm working on an issue tracker that is heavily inspired by Superhuman [0] but even if I wasn't, I still strongly consider shelling out the cash because the user experience and the pace of feature development is awesome. They're saving me time every single day and that's worth some money.
Re: Ask HN: Will you pay $99 pa for email service?
#5No.
Re: Ask HN: Will you pay $99 pa for email service?
#6I'm currently paying for Superhuman, which is $30/month. I really really like it, though it's not even a full service like hey (it still depends on Gmail). I'm working on an issue tracker that is heavily inspired by Superhuman [0] but even if I wasn't, I still strongly consider shelling out the cash because the user experience and the pace of feature development is awesome. They're saving me time every single day and…
https://www.kitemaker.co
a working link
Re: Ask HN: Will you pay $99 pa for email service?
#7Yes. I already pay for Fastmail / POBox.
~28c a day. It's not a big expense to control what is a fairly important service.
Re: Ask HN: Will you pay $99 pa for email service?
#8Yes. I already pay for Fastmail / POBox. ~28c a day. It's not a big expense to control what is a fairly important service.
I pay too because I feel like having a stable email address is important. And if I'm a paying customer I have some rights. Compare with a gmail account, you have no right to anything.
Re: Ask HN: Will you pay $99 pa for email service?
#9I'm currently paying for Superhuman, which is $30/month. I really really like it, though it's not even a full service like hey (it still depends on Gmail). I'm working on an issue tracker that is heavily inspired by Superhuman [0] but even if I wasn't, I still strongly consider shelling out the cash because the user experience and the pace of feature development is awesome. They're saving me time every single day and…
https://www.kitemaker.co a working link
https://kitemaker.co doesn't work for you? That's odd. What browser/OS?
Re: Ask HN: Will you pay $99 pa for email service?
#10I'm already paying more than that for GSuite. Doubt anyone can do better than their paid version right now