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IMHO, services like Hey is for people who don't know how, or don't want to bother, to set proper inbox rules (it has many other features for sure but organizing
by zzyzxd 5y ago
IMHO, services like Hey is for people who don't know how, or don't want to bother, to set proper inbox rules (it has many other features for sure but organizing emails is one of the biggest selling point as far as I see).
But for me, I just want a reliable, dumb, boring email service without any "smart" features. I will decide what to do with every type of incoming emails myself. Fastmail gives me exactly that.
- minton 5y agoFor me, Hey isn't just about filtering emails, although it does that well out of the box. It's the collaboration features and the small things like the Files page and Reply Later that I would miss if I went back to a traditional service like FastMail/Gmail/Proton/etc.
- zzyzxd 5y agoIsn't "Reply Later" just another folder/tag/label? And I personally just mark an email as unread if I need to take another look at it later for any reason.
- imwillofficial 5y agoOh sure, most of Hey is totally reproducible. The combination of beautiful interface, logical workflow, and thoughtful touches are what set it apart. For some people that matters, others, not as much.
- imwillofficial 5y agoI could see this being a view for some. I’d say most users on hacker news know how to set up complex rules for email. A guess, but a safe one. The magic of Hey is the user interface. The “opinionated” nature of their design choices. To me, their workflows mostly made sense. For me it really really smooths out my email workflow into a logical set of steps. Other people may not like that flow, and Hey wouldn’t be for them. So I’d counter and say Hey is for 2 groups. 1. Those who don’t know how to set up complex rules 2. Those who don’t want to, and Hey’s flow works with their own.