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- kgraves 6y agowhat did I just read?
- jjoergensen 6y agoLooks like an alternative to hey.com :-)
- tandav 6y agomind == blown
- monokh 6y agoAnd the result is?
- dpflan 6y agoCheeky. The “Enterprise Feature” is hilarious, but it did make me wonder about such a thing: having disposable/specific email addresses for different “personalities” with automated personalized communications. What I’m imagining: an email address for <insert cause here> that can be used to actually email, SMS, call your congressperson(s) in your own style based upon its contents. I’m on mobile and being lazy and not researching what is already possible and/or legal, but the current waves and momentum for social movements now are rising and my experience in software development is making me connect the two.
- cjsawyer 6y agoAnything automated is disingenuous and missing the point.
- runawaybottle 6y agoDid this page really need Javascript? It’s like people never read JavaScript: The no parts Most of that page could have been done with image maps, shrugs. Edit: Don’t downvote me just because I like text. I will say this, Hey.com is getting some awesome free marketing lately.
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- lbj 6y agoI'd love to see some revenue numbers from this business :)
- thereyougo 6y ago"Fuck apple This website was made in Microsoft Publisher on Windows 95." I like Bye logo much more than Hey's one https://imgur.com/a/GhjBjGY https://imgur.com/a/GhjBjGY
- ehsankia 6y agoAlso at the bottom: > Questions? Need help? Email us at no-reply@bye.fyi Honestly it would've been funny even if it wasn't no-reply.
- runawaybottle 6y agoIt would be funnier if they didn’t eat their own dog food and had a support@gmail.com, or a 800 number.
- akkshu92 6y agoHaha. Certainly the best thing on the internet today!
- throwawaygh 6y agoI understand that this is art. That said, I don't understand the hate for email. Especially post-Slack. Email seems to put my interlocutors in the mindset that results in paragraphs of coherent text that clearly describe an idea. Slack does exactly the opposite. I receive a lot of one-off Slack messages that border on inscrutable because of lazy spelling/grammar/composition. I then have to engage in a costly conversation to tease out the meaning. I also receive a lot of Slack messages that border on inscrutable because a 4 or 5 sentence paragraph is delivered one sentence at a time. The messages do not make sense individually, but also do not make sense when read together as a paragraph. People seem incapable of thinking more than one sentence ahead when using Slack. This is particularly bad among the crowd who didn't learn how to use channel-based chat well (e.g., by using IRC). I get that "hell is other people", but compared to the alternative, email is great. Especially with a good search feature and some basic filters and some auto-replies. And especially compared to modern Slack messaging behaviors.
- _red 6y agoBut (ding) why (ding) dont (ding) you (ding) like chatting (ding) ? (ding)
- ehsankia 6y ago(ding) Hello can I ask you a question? ...
- isoskeles 6y agoHi
- xivzgrev 6y agoThis. Just ask your fucking question
- sethammons 6y agoThis so much. Just ask me the question with a greeting attached. Lots of people seem to want a traditional conversation with back and forth greetings. Many times I reply with the “sure, what’s up?” and not hear back for an hour. Sigh.
- lioeters 6y agoQuirky caricature of the web we inhabit. After my mind settled from the shock of hilarity, I realized it's a spoof of Hey. The creator of this nonsensical satire is an animation studio called Thinko. They do some cool stuff, with tools developed in-house. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l9V7DJ3jZ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l9V7DJ3jZ8
- dijksterhuis 6y agoAn older site they put together -- from 1998 apparently https://scamdaddy.net/ https://scamdaddy.net/
- holler 6y agohahaha damn, the old web was marvelous!
- est31 6y agoWow the amazon link on the page still works. I wonder which website has more than 22 years of link stability.
- llacb47 6y agoThe fact that amazon links from 20+ years still work correctly today is amazing to me.
- serf 6y agowell, halt the amazement, amazon didn't sell whole computers in 1999, let alone 1998.[0] It's a clever parody though; but I don't remember needing JS as much in The Real 1998 (tm). [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/19991013091817/http://amazon.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/19991013091817/http://amazon.com...
- est31 6y agoYou have a point. The website seems to be more recent than it claims.
- goldenchrome 6y agoThis is not from 1998 lol. It’s just made to look that way. The people behind Thinko are designers.
- dmix 6y ago
- usaphp 6y agoI honestly don't really get the "Imbox" idea of Hey email, they say you will get a separate tab to show all emails coming from unverified addresses, but isn't that going to be full with spam just like your spam folder in gmail? I don't want to dig through hundreds of spam messages to find important ones. I don't know, maybe I don't understand something
- ehsankia 6y agoI know nothing about Hey but it could be 3 tiers still? Verified addresses, unverified addresses and detected spam? If I send you an email right now from my personal domain, I'll show up under unverified, and I'd like to think I'm not spam. Really, I imagine it's simpler to view the verified section as the special inbox, where only priority contacts show up.
- nxc18 6y agoIt feels like Hey is trying to solve a bunch of problems already solved by other email services. If anything, the problem with gmail and the like is they try to be too smart and end up getting it wrong. It feels unreliable when an important email ends up in the wrong category. Outlook and the like have the sweep feature which makes managing email quite easy. The built in unsubscribe tool works very well. I think maybe the premise is that people don’t know how to use their existing tools well, but then I don’t have confidence Hey will do a better job. They tried to get me to watch their CEO explain it for 37 minutes. The other thing I find questionable is how this would work with third-party email clients. Anytime the service tries to ‘reinvent’ email, it ends up breaking standard features, like being able to use your own email client. Look at gmail and how their tags concept translates to e.g. imap Edit: I assumed DHH was running Hey because he’s been complaining about it so much lately.
- riking 6y agoGmail killed bundles (Google Inbox) though.
- yoz-y 6y agoThey run an automated spam filter before putting mail into the screener thingie. https://hey.com/features/the-screener/ https://hey.com/features/the-screener/ They claim it's better at not removing genuine messages which is possible but remains to be tested.
- bhdzllr 6y agoThere are a few more funny links at the bottom of the page.
- holler 6y agoIs this affiliated with Hey in some way?
- atoav 6y agoI don't get the hate for email. Like at all. I'd rather have people send me one well phrased coherent email than: - 3-5 fragmented chat messages where I have to search for meaning - one infinitly long speech message where someone else basically forces you to witness their attempts of focusing their thoughts - a @-mention in a group timeline where you have to Ctrl+f a smalltalk-filled timeline to figure out what they actually want from you What I like about email (and letters) is that people have to formulate coherent thoughts if they want something from you. They have to write a subject and that alone pauses them to think about what they want. Every form of communication that moves the burden of decyphering meaning to the receiver should be avoided IMO.
- adonese 6y agoI was reluctant to use whatsapp and other chatting apps up until two years ago. voice notes have been really annoying for me, and for so long i have been literally ignoring them! Now with this corona i started to use chatting apps more regularly and at times i get really lazy to write so i will just voice note. i still struggle with them though
- atoav 6y agoAs someone who grew up with things like ICQ, MSN or Skype Chat I think chats jave their place. For chitchat or conversation with friends it is very nice. For work not so much. The only time a group chat worked was on a low budget film set where I worked as a camera operator, because people only wrote something there when they needed sth.
- kilroy123 6y agoI _love_ voice messages on WhatsApp. I use them all the time. It's way better than writing out a novel to someone. Just send a quick two minute audio. Done.
- Sodman 6y agoThe problem is that it now takes the recipient 2 minutes to listen to your message, and can't search for it when they need to reference it again in the future. If you literally just typed out the same words you spoke, the recipient can 1) interpret your message faster and 2) search for it and find it in the future. Removing those two features for marginally faster message composing just seems selfish and a waste of the recipient's time.
- ykevinator 6y agoThis is outstanding, I wish you could monetize satire products, hey deserves mocking and this is just a brilliant implementation
- awillen 6y agoWhat's the thing in the top right corner, though?
- Someone 6y agoOften, companies holding a trademark will want to create an account on a popular service to prevent others from hijacking it. Here, that wouldn’t work. Could companies holding a trademark force a company to never create an account with that name?
- andrewzah 6y agoI don't really understand the point of this. Yes, hey.com is yet another reinvention of email. So what? Email has a lot of pain points. I don't see the need to mock someone for trying to improve the current state of email. I say this as someone who vastly prefers email to say, slack.
- akkshu92 6y agoAh, is there a reason why you don't prefer Slack?
- andrewzah 6y agoIn my experience, slack has a poor signal to noise ratio. Important information gets lost as people post gifs, memes, or banter in the same channel. Search has gotten better, but it's still not great. Some people expect you to respond immediately, defeating the purpose of asynchronous communication for non important / non blocking matters. The format (like IRC) encourages multiple fragmented sentences instead of one long, cohesive message. Slack isn't that bad by itself; it's mostly how people use it compared to say, email.
- akkshu92 6y agoAh, I agree. Not sure if people have completely given up on email to use Slack. It's an excellent collaboration software, though.
- kostarelo 6y agoFor those that are wondering about HEY and if it will change the world: I myself have been using GTD for Gmail as written in this brilliant guide[1]. Basically, I've split my inbox into three inboxes with a Gmail native plugin: Needs action, Waiting Reply, Scheduled and the default inbox. Every other day I will skim through my default inbox and categorize every email in each bucket by applying a star to it. My inbox remains zero most of the time. I would highly suggest giving this a read. 1. https://dansilvestre.com/gtd-gmail/ https://dansilvestre.com/gtd-gmail/
- prepend 6y agoI tried to pay 99 cents to see who else paid 99 cents, but sadly got an error message that their api key was temporarily disabled.
- buboard 6y agofrom their video, Hey.com is more like an asynchronous chat system that happens to use SMTP as the communication protocol, they just store your contact list for you. It s got some good ideas, but those had better be implemented as extensions to smtp servers. Would be neat to be able to control our contacts list without siloing them behind a private company. in any case glad to see hey.com continuing to get more attention
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoThe only thing I hate about the email is the way people quote previous messages, putting all their answer above original text. I was so accustomed to the way FIDO conferences used to reply to messages (I guess it is called Usenet Quoting), that I still use it now, and I wish email clients would use it y default, down to the original sender initials.
- imagetic 6y agoI'll happily take a gmail alternative with custom domains and great spam filtering. I've yet to see anyone able to compete with how little I want to care about this topic. But it's going to be hard to pull people away from the g-suite bundle when the money is going to be at the enterprise level.
- xwowsersx 6y agoThe page is filled with tweets from people saying they're going to report this app to Apple...
- miguelmota 6y agoAnnouncement tweet: > Today we are thrilled to announce a new solution to an age old problem. > Overwhelmed by your e-mail inbox? Say HI to BYE https://twitter.com/jcb/status/1274735488650412034?s=21 https://twitter.com/jcb/status/1274735488650412034?s=21