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Hey.com is a love letter to the open web (twitter.com)
16 points by Ask11 2200 days ago
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Huh? In what way? Nearly everything they "invented" has been around for years, and in some cases a decade.

They blasted Apple and Gmail for causing Inbox problems, but all their "solutions" are common ways we have always managed our inboxes.

https://mrtechimist.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/apples-email-an...

Not only nothing new, but you can't /use/ this service outside of their own walled garden. No API access (or plans), no way to use another client to access it but their own. This is entirely antithetical to the 'open web' claim.
Completely agree. Nothing new here. Don’t understand all the hype.
yeah absolutely nothing new here
Congratulations. You all missed the point entirely.
How so? It's just a basic marketing site, nothing newsworthy at all
If you want a truly spam and effort-free email, use Boxbe [0]. I receive thousands of emails a day. I've paid to use SaneBox, but then it was losing important emails and I still ahd to go thrue all emails. Honestly, Hey deceives people a little - in the beginning, their mailboxes will appear clean simply because it's a new email account. But will time and autogenerated senders, Hey will drown in email just like any other service.

[0]: https://www.boxbe.com/

Maybe its web client app is, but the service is not. It's a closed, proprietary system.
Did anyone actually read the tweets? They appear to be referring not to the webapp product itself, but to the marketing/information pages.
No IMAP