from 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

from 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