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This is quite an innovative approach to email, and they describe the features here: https://hey.com/features/ https://hey.com/features/ - screening by default

• throwaway57654 6y ago
  I think being able to edit the subject and take private notes directly attached to the email are really good features.
  • _curious_ 6y ago
    "take private notes directly attached to the email" what does this mean?
    • Jtsummers 6y ago
      Imagine using a draft reply in Gmail as a notepad on a thread. It's that plus a few other things, but you don't have to worry about accidentally hitting send at some point, it's properly designated as a note (how the interfaces displays it, I don't know).
    • kintalo 6y ago
      https://hey.com/features/thread-notes/ https://hey.com/features/thread-notes/
    • gramakri 6y ago
      Just a guess: maybe they treat email threads as a document. You can then add comments to it (i.e just notes for yourself and not for others)
      • _curious_ 6y ago
        I get it now, thanks y'all.
• heliodor 6y ago
  A lot of the features advertised by HEY have been sorely missing from Gmail for a long time. I wouldn't exactly call them innovative. Gmail will have an easy time implementing these features, now that someone is kicking them out of their decade-long slumber. Plenty of people will be happy to pay for a quality and not-Google email service. Glad to see they have the resources and willpower to do this!
  • svachalek 6y ago
    Google had an innovative email platform called Inbox that was widely loved by its users and they killed it two years ago. If the market is not billions of people they just don't care about it.
    • 1123581321 6y ago
      I loved Inbox, but what actually happened there was that there were two visions of Gmail 2.0 internally. Inbox didn’t win, partly because it was written in a nightmarish C++ framework, but some of its best features were brought into Gmail. Gmail is a conservatively managed product, but it does improve over time.
      • CarlosEscobedo 6y ago
        Main thing its missing which i miss daily is bundles. Auto travel bundle was super helpful. Also it had a better ui..
      • msh 6y ago
        What is Gmail written in?
        • mynegation 6y ago
          Java, compiled with Closure
      • andolanra 6y ago
        Nobody I know who used Inbox feels that the current Gmail interface—even with some Inbox features backported—is an acceptable substitute for Inbox.
• pradn 6y ago
  I thought Gmail loaded images when it got the email, not when users opened it? Doesn't this prevent pixels from tracking?
  • bad_user 6y ago
    This might have been the plan, but it doesn't happen in my experience. I've tested it multiple times and Gmail loads those images when you open the email and it's possible to track when users open their email. It also appears that Gmail loads those tracking pixels every time you open that email, doesn't do caching, so it's possible to track how many times the recipient opens the email. The redeeming quality is that by proxying those images, your IP and User-Agent are no longer leaked. But that's it.
  • mceachen 6y ago
    You can disable automatic image loading on the settings page via a desktop browser.
• nojito 6y ago
  Blocking tracking pixels/external images is standard in outlook and many other email clients/providers.
• awill 6y ago
  the Video looks great. Reply later, and set aside do seem really useful. I'd like that for work email, not just a personal hey.com address. I wonder if they considered just building an email client. A lot of this doesn't require a special backend, and could be done for any email provider with a special client. Then it wouldn't require anyone to change addresses.