I saw "Imbox" and thought, I will never use this product.
I saw Imbox and thought, well, it can't be a typo; must be a pun I am not getting.
They want you to think that you are a box, maybe.
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#22Not being able to use my own domain name with Hey is a non starter for me. It’s like not being able to transfer your cell phone number when you switch carriers. Horrible.
Yeah, that sucks big time. I can accept the closed ecosystem, not being able to use open protocols. If you wan't to do something far away from known standards, then this might be a requirement. But locking users into the service like this gets into the way of their general stance.
Perhaps they plan to introduce custom domains in future? Maybe this just didn't fit into the initial release?
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#23This is the extension I was looking for.
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#24I saw "Imbox" and thought, I will never use this product.
For me it was their marketing message. Empty, annoying, misleading and filled with pats on the back, Apple style. Except I can't find anything innovative
For me it was the ‘I want you to send us a cringey letter straight up begging for an invite’.
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#25Genuinely need to block Hey in keywords now. The marketing is too much.
Are you suggesting the drama with Apple was part of their marketing?
Because I dont see lots of Hey from marketing side, I do see lots of hey on the argument against Apple App Store.
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#26I saw "Imbox" and thought, I will never use this product.
Their marketing stops at around 2010, including ways to get bad press before WWDC.
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#27Has anyone used this service, and why should someone ditch their current provider to use it? All I've seen is the founder kicking off about Apple murdering kittens, which put me off looking any further. I've got my own domain hosted on google apps, and it just works. Rarely get spam, I'm used to the UI, I don't want to change my email address because I don't need to. Having said the above, I guess I am not the target…
Apple's behavior here is actually pretty horrible and definitely illegal but yeah DHH has been hilariously loud in his war here. Granted he probably has to be to fight the largest company in the world with 50 people.
I’ve been using it for about 3 days so far.
The product is pretty great regardless of the funny spelling, they are launching a business version in a few months to allow you to bring your own custom domains. The notable twists I’ve seen so far is the inbox filtering logic that allows you to blatantly say “I don’t want emails from this address ever.” Gmail’s “mark spam” stuff doesn’t quite work for this and stuff eventually gets unmarked. It’s like the worlds easiest unsubscribe with no run around with unsubscribe dark patterns. The privacy stuff looks pretty good too. It seems to me that the iOS app is unbelievably fast (ironic considering...) like time to go from closed app to “see new emails” is easily A few seconds faster than both Gmail and Outlook. I’m tempted to pay to be honest. I’ve been really happy. But then there’s the whole “will I ever get an updated iOS app?” Thing that puts water on that.
Edit: why am I being downvoted? The Head of the House Antitrust Commission directly called Apple’s behavior out and the EU announced Investigations of Apple’s behavior. The rest is just my option of a product. Lol
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#28There is no way that Hey is going to tolerate this 30% tax on their Imbox
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#29Not being able to use my own domain name with Hey is a non starter for me. It’s like not being able to transfer your cell phone number when you switch carriers. Horrible.
Yeah, that sucks big time. I can accept the closed ecosystem, not being able to use open protocols. If you wan't to do something far away from known standards, then this might be a requirement. But locking users into the service like this gets into the way of their general stance. Perhaps they plan to introduce custom domains in future? Maybe this just didn't fit into the initial release?
> Perhaps they plan to introduce custom domains in future? Maybe this just didn't fit into the initial release?
Most probably.
This is how basecamp always did thing, even back when it was called 37signals: they release a MVP, they generate money as early as they can, then they start agile feedback loop, improving the product throught many iterations.
They were one of the teams that made agile popular after all.
They also promote the philosophy of rejecting features and not noting the requests for them down.
Only a feature that has been requested and rejected enough times pass their "filter" of something that should be added to the product.
I'm betting a custom domain name will pass such filter and end up being implemented in one year or two.
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#30Not being able to use my own domain name with Hey is a non starter for me. It’s like not being able to transfer your cell phone number when you switch carriers. Horrible.
For sure. Their thinking is probably let's see how popular it is before offering custom domains which are typically for businesses (or techies). The problem with that is, that the techies are the ones they really need to target first, since if they get hooked and loved it, then consumers will follow. I started writing a tweet when I first saw this about the typo then realized they intentionally misspelled it, and sighed. Reminded me of the days of working for a company where they felt ever employee needed a special crazy title. Often clarity is best. Sometimes plays on words work, but in this case I feel it certainly doesn't.