Show HN: Automatically Rename HEY's 'Imbox' to 'Inbox'

Post by thatguy0900 » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 2:02 PM UTC

maxsilver wrote: post #113

agloeregrets wrote: post #80

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That’s all super fair, but they also argue this direction allows them to innovate as well. Notably, their direction resembles a rails approach and lets the server do more work. (Because Hey is instead just a standard API client, whereas the client can tell the server things that you just can’t do with IMAP.) I imagine with the Apple situation they are working on adding support currently however, even if it’s reduced.…

> They need an iOS plan B. I hope they don't. Apple needs to feel the pain their evil and immoral behaviour is inflicting on the world. In a perfect world, the government would force them to behave ethically. Absent that, Hey's stance here is the next best thing. If folks like Basecamp don't start standing up to Apple, then nothing stops Apple from just outright killing the majority of mobile software development. An…

Post by ubermonkey » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 2:05 PM UTC

knowledge-clay wrote: post #70

HEY looked interesting until I found out they don't support IMAP. When I think about the problems with email, I don't think primarily about the interface, but about the fact that the open standards on which it is based are increasingly being ignored.

Post by hayyyyydos » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 2:25 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #117

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> Their whole "filtering everything out until you whitelist the sender" approach Unless I'm missing something about what they're doing, this is a basic SIEVE script that filters anything not explicitly whitelisted into a folder.

This has a bit of a "I can build Dropbox with a bunch of shell scripts over the weekend" vibe. I'm sure there's a bit more to it than that. How would you whitelist things in your regular IMAP client? Manually moving things to the IMAP Inbox and which then marks them as whitelisted somehow? You could probably build that with a bunch of hacks but you'll not get a polished consumer friendly feature out of that. They are…

Post by tamatech » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 2:27 PM UTC

fortran77 wrote: post #53

My problem is I associate DHH and the Basecamp folks with the "Web2.0" of yesterday, and slow, hard-to-scale Ruby and Rails stuff. (Remember the year when everything looked like the RoR "To Do list" demo app?). All their branding, personal and professional, is a decade old.

Post by Macha » Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 2:48 PM UTC

srik wrote: post #48

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For me it was the ‘I want you to send us a cringey letter straight up begging for an invite’.

It’s a classic marketing strategy that has an extremely high success rate - making the prospect justify why they are a fit for you instead of the usual other way.