- Superhuman is a blazingly fast premium email service with a subscription fee of $30 per month
- Recently Superhuman raised $33 million at a $260 million valuation
Superhuman is a new premium email service that has a subscription fee of $30 per month. You may think to yourself immediately that email should be free, but the reviews I have read about Superhuman have been extremely positive.
The Superhuman email service is blazingly fast and has features that distinguish it from other email platforms. For example, it has an A.I. Triage feature, undo send, insights from social networks, follow-up reminders, scheduled messages, and read statuses.
On average people spend 3 hours a day on email. And Superhuman spent a lot of time meticulously crafting every interaction. The Superhuman team also spent a lot of time refining all of the iconography and the typography.
Gmail creator Paul Buchheit had a rule that every interaction should be faster than 100ms. That is because 100ms is the threshold where interactions feel instantaneous. This is a rule that Superhuman brought back with start-up, search, and sending of emails.
Crunchbase CEO Jager McConnell is quoted as saying that Superhuman is the fastest email app he has ever seen. And Camille Ricketts (head of marketing at Notion and former head of content at First Round Capital) said that Superhuman has been delightful to use due to its speed, beauty, and ease. “I am a tough customer when it comes to productivity apps, but I was blown away by this product,” explained Eat24 CEO Mike Ghaffary.
With Superhuman, you can connect your LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter accounts in order to grow your network by connecting with people.
With the A.I. Triage feature, your most important email is detected and surfaced to the top. This feature ensures that you quickly get to the messages that you care the most about.
Superhuman highlights when people read your emails, click on your links, and download attachments. This also helps close deals faster and respond with better timing.
And you can set timings to remind you when to follow up to your sent emails. You can also schedule emails to be sent out at specific times.
As you start entering a time for a meeting, your calendar is automatically pulled up so that you can easily schedule appointments.
Plus you can snooze conversations in case you don’t want it to appear in your inbox — which can come in handy if you want to follow-up to an email for a week or two.
Superhuman also works offline. While offline, you can reply, search, and archive emails without an Internet connection. Then all the actions will go through once you get back online.
And Superhuman also built keyboard shortcuts for every action. And it supports Gmail’s shortcuts so you can use your existing muscle memory.
Who is the team behind Superhuman? Rahul Vohra is the founder and CEO — who is known as the founder of Rapportive (a Gmail extension that linked social profiles and status messages into the sidebar which was acquired by LinkedIn). And Superhuman co-founder and CTO Conrad Irwin was the first engineer at Rapportive, the VP of Engineering at BugSnag, and part of the core team at pry (used by 25% of Ruby developers). And Superhuman co-founder Vivek Sodera also co-founded Rapleaf/Liveramp (acquired by Acxiom for $310 million).
“I love that the Rapportive lessons have been applied as a complete rebuild of email!” noted Doctor On Demand CEO Adam Jackson.
Last month, Superhuman raised $33 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz according to The New York Times. That funding round was at a $260 million valuation.
Andreessen Horowitz partner David Ulevitch led the venture firm’s investment in Superhuman and swore by the service saying via NYT that once he started using it, he “couldn’t conceive of relying on anything else.”
There is currently more than 180,000 on the waiting list for Superhuman. There are about 15,000 subscribers that have been brought into the platform so far.
