Basecamp co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson held a recent livestream session where they answered questions about HEY, the company's new email service. You can listen to Part 1 or watch the entire livestream on YouTube.
Show Notes
Q1: What's the timeframe on new features? - 00:38
HEY for Work - 00:50
Shape Up - 1:13
Apple vs. HEY - 4:33
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy At Work - 6:07
Q2: How did you get HEY.com? - 7:12
"How we acquired HEY.com" (Signal v. Noise) - 7:30
Q3: When would you say you've taken on Gmail? - 9:53
Q4: What's the environmental impact of HEY? - 14:14
Data analyst Jane Yang's SvN post on carbon negativity - 15:45
Q5: It's been crazy at work for the last couple weeks. How do you get back to normal? - 15:52
Q6: Now that you have two products, are you concerned with context switching in the future? - 17:38
Q7: What's the problem with "inbox zero?" - 20:04
Q8: How could I possibly move to HEY with 16 years of emails in Gmail? - 24:10
HEY's guide for moving from Gmail - 24:10