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Re: Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

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Post by WA »

1123581321 wrote: post #14
hellofunk wrote: post #6

Enjoyable to see these mockery sites. The original Hey marketing was just asking to get mocked. Hopefully they take it in good spirit. The lesson learned I think is, don’t act like God unless you want to get mocked for it.

I like this parody, but I don’t understand what you are saying about Hey’s original marketing. What’s particularly arrogant about product designers saying they’ve identified and solved a problem? Here’s what they originally put up, for reference: http://web.archive.org/web/20200207101953/https://www.hey.co...

My biggest gripe about Hey is that it’s marketed as an email client, but it’s actually a proprietary database you get access to through something that looks like an email address.

I’m exaggerating a bit. But I don’t understand why they built a service and not a client.

For me, email is about being not locked into a specific client. And Hey requires a separate client than the one for my existing email addresses.

Re: Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

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Post by wodenokoto »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #51
thesephist wrote: post #16

Hey all :) creator here (and yes, you can reach me at linus@heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com). Was talking with a friend last night and I bought this domain on a whim because I thought it would be funny. And then spent a couple hours making this landing page and it's since turned into this elaborate joke. Hope it added something to your day~ haha

How do you remember how many Y's to use? Or did you just register all the in-between ones as well :p

It’s easy to remember: $100 per Y, equals $1200 a year.

With a price like that you never forget how many Y’s you are buying!

Re: Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

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Post by AnonHP »

Quite funny, but I think it needs to take a bigger dig on hey.com's pricing and offering.

> $100 for each "y"

Ah, flipping hey.com's model of charging more for shorter addresses. Genius!

> So expensive, you'll never forget to cancel

This should be right at the top! And it applies to hey.com too (for many people)! :)

Re: Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

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Post by ljm »

PoissonVache wrote: post #72

Hi, I can't register. Each time I click, a weird old video opens. Can someone help me ? I tried to contact the creator of the site to tell him that he messed up with his register link.

Unlike other email startups, this one promises to never give you up or let you down. I expect them to resist every attempt at acquisition.

(I miss you, Mailbox, Sparrow...)

Re: Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

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Post by haddr »

PoissonVache wrote: post #72

Hi, I can't register. Each time I click, a weird old video opens. Can someone help me ? I tried to contact the creator of the site to tell him that he messed up with his register link.

I think their transpiler from typescript to ecmascript 7 has a bug when using web components with Angular

Re: Heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com

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Post by ric2b »

LordAtlas wrote: post #25
thesephist wrote: post #16

Hey all :) creator here (and yes, you can reach me at linus@heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com). Was talking with a friend last night and I bought this domain on a whim because I thought it would be funny. And then spent a couple hours making this landing page and it's since turned into this elaborate joke. Hope it added something to your day~ haha

If I may make a suggestion, redirect the Rickroll link through a "/reserve" link on your site so it's not immediately obvious on mouse hover.

That's against the spirit of rickroll, you're supposed to fool the person into clicking it without elaborate tricks, just a link.
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