Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
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Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#2When Hey.com announced their features I scrolled through each one and would probably get value from 75% of them. Superhuman seems more of a signaling play.
Hey.com features on top of Gmail though, that would be amazing.
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#3When Hey.com announced their features I scrolled through each one and would probably get value from 75% of them. Superhuman seems more of a signaling play. Hey.com features on top of Gmail though, that would be amazing.
I would absolutely pay to get many of they Hey.com features on top of my Fastmail accounts.
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#4Or it's not for everyone.. which is OK too.
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#5Rahul is a visionary, thought leader. Silicon Valley needs more founder turned VC like him.
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#6I 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.
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#7Rahul is a visionary, thought leader. Silicon Valley needs more founder turned VC like him.
Can you explain more about what is "visionary"?
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#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 per month to break even. That is 1.2 min per day.
If Superhuman is even marginally better than the best competition, then it meets that bar, and is profitable for someone who earns money with their work time. That’s the target market.
I use it. I find the desktop app great, mobile apps so so. They have major ram issues on ios. But I love the desktop app.
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#9I 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.
It's not even a native app
Re: Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced
#10My take on SH... They essentially just teach you how to do things that gmail already lets you do, but put a cuter UI around it, and they force teach you concepts like inbox zero. Other than that I see 0 value in the product.