Never understood the hype around superhuman. From the outside it looks as if it was hyped by a bunch of silicon valley VC's to drive up the valuation of the product.
Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
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Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#32Superhuman 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 h…
I got into the "beta" last night only to find out it was a 1 week trial and the cost was $100/year. (Also when claiming emails short addresses costs even more money per year).
Right off the bat it put a really bad taste in my mouth. I'm helping you test your product. Changing your email is a really big commitment, I can't imagine this is the way to convince people to try it.
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#33Never understood the hype around superhuman. From the outside it looks as if it was hyped by a bunch of silicon valley VC's to drive up the valuation of the product.
Also the invite-only beta thing that was being talked about on Twitter in a way to make it #mysterious
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#34Superhuman is supposed to be for business but it doesn't do encryption?
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#35Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#36I don't see why anyone would pay more than $10/mo for a non-Gmail email service. But I'm also a grumpy weirdo who prefers to use plain-text email wherever possible, so all these "Gmail-killers" don't really offer what I want.
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
It takes around that much time until interactivity, yeah. It's incredibly slow, and I have gigabit internet.
I'll mention this yet again so everyone can ignore it, but if you use the HTML-only option, it's clunkier but very fast. But I can say this 100 times and nobody does it.
I can confirm the HTML-only option is great, and there is one for holdouts of Facebook too: https://mbasic.facebook.com
(also via Tor https://mbasic.facebookcorewwi.onion)
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#38> 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.
I think people do consider the money value of time?
If you're an employee, it's irrelevant.
If you're self employed, the mental overhead and switching costs are high.
And if you are the person for which those things are true, do you believe the marketing?
Wouldn't 5 minutes memorizing keyboard shortcuts be a better use of time, at $0/monthly cost?
I would argue that the area in which people fail to consider the value of time is actually the time cost of implementing new processes, software or otherwise.
There are hundreds of thousands of free courses and tutorials that could each save someone a little here and a little there, why doesn't everyone spend all day learning?
It's an interesting question, really.
I lean towards pick the 2-3 core activities and optimize for time and output with those tools. For everything else, optimize for low mental overhead.
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#39Superhuman 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 h…
I got into the "beta" last night only to find out it was a 1 week trial and the cost was $100/year. (Also when claiming emails short addresses costs even more money per year). Right off the bat it put a really bad taste in my mouth. I'm helping you test your product. Changing your email is a really big commitment, I can't imagine this is the way to convince people to try it.
Wait, don't they allow custom domains? I think this lock-in, even if it is for reinvented email, ought to be a big "no".
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#40It's good to see more competition in the email space as a consumer. Superhuman should get a good push from hey.com, as their only previous large competitor was Gmail.