Hey everyone—
I’m JasonCEO here at 37signals.
Email gets a bad rapbut it shouldn’t. Email’s a treasure.
It feels great to get an email from someone you care about. Or a newsletter you enjoy. Or an update from a service you like. That’s how email used to feel all the time.
But things changed.
You started getting stuff you didn’t want from people you didn’t know. You lost control over who could reach you. An avalanche of automated emails cluttered everything up.
And GmailOutlookYahooand Apple just let it happen.
Now email feels like a chorerather than a joy. Something you fall behind on. Something you clear outnot cherish. Rather than delight in ityou deal with it.
And yetemail remains a wonder. Thanks to emailpeople across culturescontinentscountriescitiesand communities communicate every day. It’s reliable. It’s simple. It makes it easy for two humans to share their loveand for millions of people to earn a living.
So good newsthe magic’s still there. It’s just obscured — buried under a mess of bad habits and neglect. Some from peoplesome from machinesa lot from email software.
Email deserves a dust off. A renovation. Modernized for the way we email today.
With HEYwe’ve done just that. It’s a redoa rethinka simplifiedpotent reintroduction of email. A fresh startthe way it should be.
HEY is our love letter to email and calendarsand we’re sending it to you on the WebMacWindowsLinuxiOSand Android.
- Jason Fried
- Co-founder & CEO