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Superhuman’s email app is overhyped and overpriced

70 点作者 italophil将近 5 年前

16 条评论

KennyFromIT将近 5 年前
Am I the only one that feels like this article (along with this resulting HN thread) is straight out of the Hey PR machine? I guess I just don't understand the value this type of post adds to the HN community.
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freediver将近 5 年前
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.
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pl0x将近 5 年前
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.
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Androider将近 5 年前
Superhuman is a slightly faster GMail, while Hey (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hey.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hey.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;</a>) on the other hand seems like a rethinking of the fundamentals of email starting from &quot;Anyone can email you&quot;.<p>I&#x27;ve tried inbox zero etc. but they all fail in the long run for me (I&#x27;m one of those folks with the red badge of shame with literally 40,000 unread emails on my phone), so I&#x27;m eager to give Hey a try which gives you a workflow of how to do email: screen, reply-later, focus mode bulk reply.
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northerdome将近 5 年前
I use Superhuman. It&#x27;s really good and they get the details right. Good keyboard shortcuts, good offline. It isn&#x27;t revolutionary but has an attention to detail other services I&#x27;ve tried in the past miss. I also like paying a premium for software rather than see a company flounder to make the financials work. I&#x27;ve had so many of my favorite tools die. I like that I can pay Superhuman to help them continue to make a great product.
sealthedeal将近 5 年前
My 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.
raiyu将近 5 年前
When 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.<p>Hey.com features on top of Gmail though, that would be amazing.
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m3kw9将近 5 年前
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.<p>Instead you aggressively set rules to filter and check your email manually when you are good and ready.<p>If you really need to, only allow VIPs email to show up in badge count. iOS supports this.
theagilecoder将近 5 年前
Moved from Superhuman to hey.com. I really like both but hey.com is way cheaper.
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kstrauser将近 5 年前
On the one hand, that’s ridiculous.<p>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.
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graeme将近 5 年前
&gt; 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.<p>Assume your time is worth $50&#x2F;hour and you can deduct superhuman as a business expense. Let’s say you do email every day in a month, so 30 days.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.
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j45将近 5 年前
Or it&#x27;s not for everyone.. which is OK too.
foobaw将近 5 年前
It&#x27;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.
dhagz将近 5 年前
I don&#x27;t see why anyone would pay more than $10&#x2F;mo for a non-Gmail email service. But I&#x27;m also a grumpy weirdo who prefers to use plain-text email wherever possible, so all these &quot;Gmail-killers&quot; don&#x27;t really offer what I want.
upofadown将近 5 年前
Superhuman is supposed to be for business but it doesn&#x27;t do encryption?
koolhead17将近 5 年前
Rahul is a visionary, thought leader. Silicon Valley needs more founder turned VC like him.
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