Ask HN: Will you pay $99 pa for email service?

4 points by blackpanda 6 years ago | 9 comments

hey.com is charging that much.

Just curious how many would be fine with paying $99 per annum for email service for which pretty much 99.99% of the population does NOT pay.

mtmail 6 years ago |

I pay 4 Euro ($4.50) per month currently and for at least the last 10 years. Plus $22/year for the email client (postbox). Our work email is an additional $20/year per account. $99 wouldn't be a stretch. The $99 sounds much, but converted to $9/month it's similar to Netflix or Spotify and a 5% gain in email productivity would be worth it. (From their annoucement video the service doesn't fit my email work style.)

kevsim 6 years ago |

I'm currently paying for Superhuman, which is $30/month. I really really like it, though it's not even a full service like hey (it still depends on Gmail). I'm working on an issue tracker that is heavily inspired by Superhuman [0] but even if I wasn't, I still strongly consider shelling out the cash because the user experience and the pace of feature development is awesome. They're saving me time every single day and that's worth some money.

0: https://kitemaker.co

blackpanda 6 years ago | |

https://www.kitemaker.co

a working link

kevsim 6 years ago | | |

https://kitemaker.co doesn't work for you? That's odd. What browser/OS?

sha90 6 years ago |

Fastmail nets around $50/year (if you pay annually) for mail + your own domain, and if you don't need the domain, it's less.

Another $50/year really isn't that big of a stretch for some people, but I can see how saving up to 70% on email would be a pretty easy choice for those who don't really care that much about email and might even use gmail if it weren't for needing a custom domain.

onion2k 6 years ago |

Yes, but not really for the email service. The email side of things is pretty boring. The way I see it is that if 'focus mode' saves me an hour or two a week, and makes me actually reply to people more quickly, then $99 is a bargain.

__d 6 years ago |

Yes. I already pay for Fastmail / POBox.

~28c a day. It's not a big expense to control what is a fairly important service.

Gibbon1 6 years ago | |

I pay too because I feel like having a stable email address is important. And if I'm a paying customer I have some rights. Compare with a gmail account, you have no right to anything.

verdverm 6 years ago |

I'm already paying more than that for GSuite. Doubt anyone can do better than their paid version right now