Hey all :) creator here (and yes, you can reach me at linus@heyyyyyyyyyyyy.com).
Was talking with a friend last night and I bought this domain on a whim because I thought it would be funny. And then spent a couple hours making this landing page and it's since turned into this elaborate joke. Hope it added something to your day~ haha
I like it, but my very scientific algorithms I have developed with the use of science suggest it needs 479% more Arthur Fonzarelli on the home page to achieve legendary status.
Hey, thanks! I used a CSS library [0] I wrote myself last year that I use for a bunch of other projects of mine, most famously lyrics.rip [1] and free.linus.zone (my free-busy calendar I wrote myself) [2]. It gives the site the "faux-3D" aesthetic.
I was entertained until I clicked a link and awoke my baby in the next room with sudden audio. Trying to get back into the YouTube app to stop Premium background audio playback was .. hectic.
Site seemed slightly entertaining, baby is awake, I'm not currently amused ;)
Hi, I can't register. Each time I click, a weird old video opens. Can someone help me ? I tried to contact the creator of the site to tell him that he messed up with his register link.
After a thorough dive into the source code, it seems to be an issue with click events with the attribute 'rick', rolling off the JS call-stack incorrectly.
Enjoyable to see these mockery sites. The original Hey marketing was just asking to get mocked. Hopefully they take it in good spirit. The lesson learned I think is, don’t act like God unless you want to get mocked for it.
I like this parody, but I don’t understand what you are saying about Hey’s original marketing. What’s particularly arrogant about product designers saying they’ve identified and solved a problem?
My biggest gripe about Hey is that it’s marketed as an email client, but it’s actually a proprietary database you get access to through something that looks like an email address.
I’m exaggerating a bit. But I don’t understand why they built a service and not a client.
For me, email is about being not locked into a specific client. And Hey requires a separate client than the one for my existing email addresses.
Part of the issue was how they handled the "application" to be one of the first users. It was quite pretentious. They wanted you to express yourself in some novel, poetic way to convince them you are worthy of testing their golden new service. It was silly. In the end, it was also meaningless, everyone got invites anyway. But, the arrogance lingers.
I don't think email is broken for everybody. Maybe so for Jason Fried and other popular techies who get so much email because they are public figures. Not for my family and friends.
So when I read their pitch, I see another locked in platform à la Slack. The tone is quite pretentious too. Sounds more like a pitch from a clique leader to join them.
I've actually been trying to remember the URL to this website on and off for the last six years (note to self, 8 'e's), so thanks for scratching that itch.
I use this service but I think there's something wrong with their servers because I don't seem to get any emails? Oddly enough emails from my gmail account works but literally 0 of the 100+ job recruiters I've emailed has responded so I think there's something wrong.
> Your message wasn't delivered to demo@bye.fyi due to an error.
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> The response was:
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> write EPROTO 140451178456960:error:14094438:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:tlsv1 alert internal
> error:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:1544:SSL alert number 80
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> If you need help, forward this to support@forwardemail.net or visit https://forwardemail.net.
Are you kidding? Nobody will take you seriously if you try to pass the 13 y hey off as the 12 y hey. How can anyone trust you when they can't even trust the domain of your email?
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Was talking with a friend last night and I bought this domain on a whim because I thought it would be funny. And then spent a couple hours making this landing page and it's since turned into this elaborate joke. Hope it added something to your day~ haha
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[1]https://youtu.be/Zw6T4Db7_7o?t=29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ5LpwO-An4&t=10s
I like it, but my very scientific algorithms I have developed with the use of science suggest it needs 479% more Arthur Fonzarelli on the home page to achieve legendary status.
With a price like that you never forget how many Y’s you are buying!
[0] https://thesephist.github.io/blocks.css/
[1] https://www.lyrics.rip
[2] https://thesephist.com/posts/frieden/
Site seemed slightly entertaining, baby is awake, I'm not currently amused ;)
(I miss you, Mailbox, Sparrow...)
Here’s what they originally put up, for reference: http://web.archive.org/web/20200207101953/https://www.hey.co...
I’m exaggerating a bit. But I don’t understand why they built a service and not a client.
For me, email is about being not locked into a specific client. And Hey requires a separate client than the one for my existing email addresses.
HN people will get mad when a landing page is not just words on a page, but will also get mad when it is.
So when I read their pitch, I see another locked in platform à la Slack. The tone is quite pretentious too. Sounds more like a pitch from a clique leader to join them.
That's what bothers me I guess.
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- I.R. Agne (i.r.ange@420blaze.it)
Keep trying.
> You can't.
If only every service was so straightforward.
I tried using one of their domains to send patches to LKML and got rate limited after two patches in a four patch series. Seriously a PITA.
> Your message wasn't delivered to demo@bye.fyi due to an error. > > The response was: > > write EPROTO 140451178456960:error:14094438:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:tlsv1 alert internal > error:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/record/rec_layer_s3.c:1544:SSL alert number 80 > > > If you need help, forward this to support@forwardemail.net or visit https://forwardemail.net.