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HEY — Email at its best, new from Basecamp
Email deserves a dust off. A renovation. Modernized for the way we email today.
With HEY, we’ve done just that. It’s a redo, a rethink, a simplified, potent reintroduction of email. A fresh start, the way it should be.
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daisuke osada
@jasonfried Got invitation last night, This is simply an email reInvented.
I'll completely use it for 14 days. Thanks.
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It takes a lot of the workflows/smart folders/scripts people might develop and renders them unnecessary. The outcome is more visual, efficient and productive, ultimately more pleasurable.
Looks super interesting. How would one receive an invite code? Possibly by email ;)
How come in the recent PH newsletter you can read: 4. HEY is a new way of creating, sending, and organizing emails (i.e., they reinvented the proverbial email wheel). Get your own @hey account for free. ... This is not free at all. :(
?makers How does Hey deal with calendar invites?
They can be a notable share of many inboxes, hence the full integration attempts in Outlook to GMail. Yet I can imagine trying to reinvent scheduling is not a small adjacent feature...
@seikatsu They're attached as .ics files. Click the file and add it to the calendar of your choice.
Very curious to try out hey. If there someone has a spare invite it would be much appreciated! Thank you!
Will take an invite always looking to test new email tools since always buried by my inbox.
I'm thinking all the product hunt folks who comment, upvote and dig this idea should get an invite :)
I am intrigued by the product and wonderful to see someone as resourceful as Basecamp
make an attempt to solve e-mail. A dealbreaker for me, however, is the inability to import my existing e-mails. I wish you good luck with the launch and road ahead!
@jasonfried I watched your YouTube demo and I'm really excited about Hey. Especially a future version where we can use our own domains.
I do have a question for you and @dhh though, do you anticipate adding "Snooze" or "Send then Snooze" features that will allow me to make threads appear back in my Imbox at a specific datetime in the future?
I'm not sure that the "Reply Later" and "Set Aside" functions are sufficient for real-world workflows where I want something to go away until I need it again.
@dhh @circuitfive Thanks! No plans to add Snooze right now. We've been using HEY internally for many months and while I used to occasionally use Snooze in Gmail, I don't miss it (or want it) in HEY. Reply Later and Set Aside work wonderfully in real-world scenarios. There's no theory in this product - we've been hammering it with thousands of real emails over many months of real use, and the concepts hold up really well. I think you'll find the same when you try it.
@jasonfried Set Aside doesn't have a date. i want my accounting emails to reappear in the beginning of the month. snooze is set aside + reminder
@dhh @jasonfried I hope you'll reconsider. For me, snooze was the absolute killer feature of Google Inbox. I use snoozed emails daily, both as long-term reminders set weeks or months away (future action deadlines, reminders e.g. that a package is about to be delivered or that I need to follow up on an invoice, catching up with a contact just before their next budget planning date, etc etc...) and for shorter-term triage (hiding away emails that need action but not today by a few days, or pushing non-urgent personal emails to the evening/weekend).
I'm really interested in Hey, and maybe I'm wrong, but snooze is a super core part of how I handle all email every day right now, and the one part that works really well. I can't imagine letting that go.
Surprise by the push as I joined the waiting list a while ago and haven't heard anything since then. Just gave me time to learn with Superhuman, let's see - looking forward to the FTUX!
Talk about solving a problem/ pain. If you watch the full 30 min video you can't deny that it is a game changer. Yes there is hype (you *should* speak highly of a product you created) but it lives up to it. Email is not an easy beast to take on, so hats off to you @jasonfried and @dhh for taking on the challenge. Looking forward to switching to Hey.com.
I had the pleasure of getting an early walkthrough with @jasonfried last month. I'm very impressed with the level of detail and creative thinking that went into Hey.
It's deserving of the hype rn.
@jasonfried @rrhoover any chance for an access code? I'd love to make a video about this for my YT channel and design students. It really ticks all boxes!