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Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced

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Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced

#11

I am an ex-user. A search through my email archive would regularly take ten seconds while gmail would do it instantly. The most frustrating thing about it was constant insisting on how super-fast it was in all their marketing while my experience was completely opposite.

My experience is that search and UI transitions are blazing fast. It crashes (rarely, but more than I like) and requires a restart. But I love it and am happy to pay $30/m for it.

Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced

#13
Superhuman is a slightly faster GMail, while Hey (https://hey.com/features/) on the other hand seems like a rethinking of the fundamentals of email starting from "Anyone can email you".

I've tried inbox zero etc. but they all fail in the long run for me (I'm one of those folks with the red badge of shame with literally 40,000 unread emails on my phone), so I'm eager to give Hey a try which gives you a workflow of how to do email: screen, reply-later, focus mode bulk reply.

Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced

#16
One of the best secrets to manage your email is to disable the Badge. It’s useless, really for the most part unless you can consistently get it down to single digits.

Instead you aggressively set rules to filter and check your email manually when you are good and ready.

If you really need to, only allow VIPs email to show up in badge count. iOS supports this.

Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced

#17
post #11

I am an ex-user. A search through my email archive would regularly take ten seconds while gmail would do it instantly. The most frustrating thing about it was constant insisting on how super-fast it was in all their marketing while my experience was completely opposite.

My experience is that search and UI transitions are blazing fast. It crashes (rarely, but more than I like) and requires a restart. But I love it and am happy to pay $30/m for it.

Honest question. If this is not sarcasm, what makes it worth $30 a month. I can't think of a single other software I would pay that much for.

Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced

#18
On the one hand, that’s ridiculous.

On the other, if you find a way to get people to pay you $30 a month for an otherwise free or cheap service, then bravo. Even if I think it’s silly, it’s a progressive tax on something way less evil than, say, bottling public water and then selling it back to the public.

Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced

#19

I am an ex-user. A search through my email archive would regularly take ten seconds while gmail would do it instantly. The most frustrating thing about it was constant insisting on how super-fast it was in all their marketing while my experience was completely opposite.

Really? Mine is the exact opposite experience. Gmail, the website, takes at least 2 minutes to load and be usable, so much that I need to use a separate extension to use it normally (Checker Plus for Gmail).

Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced

#20
post #8

> Well, first off, despite the astronomical price, it is a good email application. In another world, one where Superhuman was more reasonably priced and a little more customizable, I could see it being very popular. Assume your time is worth $50/hour and you can deduct superhuman as a business expense. Let’s say you do email every day in a month, so 30 days. If I did my math right, Superhuman just has to save 36 min…

It is strange that people don't consider the money value of time when addressing the prices of products. 30 dollars is extremely cheap, since 36 minutes per month as you say is such a small value as to be negligible.
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