I wonder how much did they pay for the domain. Anyone has a guess?
A lot. Although they do not say how much.
Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
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#142I am fully behind something like this, and more than happy to pay for an email service that will stop all the "new-age spam".
But! "Want an invite? To get a code, email iwant@hey.com and tell us how you feel"
Seriously? A Gmail trick? By playing this trick, you just destroyed all your credibility.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google had an innovative email platform called Inbox that was widely loved by its users and they killed it two years ago. If the market is not billions of people they just don't care about it.
I loved Inbox, but what actually happened there was that there were two visions of Gmail 2.0 internally. Inbox didn’t win, partly because it was written in a nightmarish C++ framework, but some of its best features were brought into Gmail. Gmail is a conservatively managed product, but it does improve over time.
Main thing its missing which i miss daily is bundles. Auto travel bundle was super helpful. Also it had a better ui..
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Yes and I click the Unsubscribe link if I don’t want to receive anymore emails
Yeah, that works great when they make a new list each month.. I’ve had to threaten GPDR complaints to get off lists I hadn’t even subscribed too haha
They can similarly create a new FROM address for the campaign then to get around Hey?
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#145"Three months into the pandemic, the argument about the moral and economic superiority of the modern office is over. Remote work works." So, I have worked (mostly) remotely for years, and I don't think I agree with this. It works for some people, in some situations. There are absolutely times when you need to be in the office with other people, and even if my client is in another town I have to drive over there to ta…
This issue gets litigated to death on here. This is about the launch of a new product, not whether you had fun working at home during quarantine, come on
Re: Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google had an innovative email platform called Inbox that was widely loved by its users and they killed it two years ago. If the market is not billions of people they just don't care about it.
I loved Inbox, but what actually happened there was that there were two visions of Gmail 2.0 internally. Inbox didn’t win, partly because it was written in a nightmarish C++ framework, but some of its best features were brought into Gmail. Gmail is a conservatively managed product, but it does improve over time.
What is Gmail written in?
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Is there a difference between the statements "Remote work works" and "It works for some people, in some situations." It's not like Basecamp said "Remote work works for everyone all the time in every situation ever." They just said it does work, as a counterpoint to the traditional IT company belief that tech is something that's hard to do remotely because of those "watercooler moments". To be honest, they don't even…
On the short term it works. We will have to see about the long run.
Why will we have to see? It's not like this is the first time anyone has worked remotely. People have been working remotely for decades, which is proof that it works for those people. In fact entire companies recently (last 5ish years) have created entirely remote companies.
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Considering >50% of my email is just meeting invites I don’t see Hey as being an option right now. Throw in no IMAP support and I’m not sure if I would ever use this service. Who is this intended for? Genuinely curious.
Plus the weird brag(?) about "we don't use artificial intelligence, we use human intelligence". I dunno. Seems like a marketing-first ploy to get $99 from a lot of people who aren't looking too closely or who don't really use email seriously to begin with.
Or don't like current email clients
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#149I’m disappointed in Hey so far. It’s a closed system (no IMAP). They are charging a premium price for it over Fastmail or Google Gsuite. There is no calendar. No ability to import old emails into it. Seems like they could have just released a mail app sitting on top of Fastmail and had more/better features from day one.
I was starting to get intrigued reading the article, but inability to import old mail (and inability to export backups via IMAP) I'd a definite deal breaker for me.
But you can export in mbox format.
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A lot of the features advertised by HEY have been sorely missing from Gmail for a long time. I wouldn't exactly call them innovative. Gmail will have an easy time implementing these features, now that someone is kicking them out of their decade-long slumber. Plenty of people will be happy to pay for a quality and not-Google email service. Glad to see they have the resources and willpower to do this!
Google had an innovative email platform called Inbox that was widely loved by its users and they killed it two years ago. If the market is not billions of people they just don't care about it.
Google should have written seasons 7 and 8 of Game of Thrones.