rahulvohra

We've been working super hard to bring Superhuman to every platform. We started with Gmail, on the web. We then added macOS, followed by iOS. Last year we launched Outlook, and earlier this year we launched Windows. Today, we are launching Superhuman for Android.

We've now built an email client from scratch several times over, with an emphasis on performance each time. Many mistakes made and lessons learned along the way. AMA!

I can attest that the "infinite slog" thing is at least partially true :P

This is why, incidentally, that in productivity you need to raise surprising amounts of money. (Or grow revenue super fast, if you can. But then you'll raise a surprising amount of money anyway.)

Superhuman | Frontend Engineer, Product Manager, Lead Designer | Early stage | Fulltime | Onsite | San Francisco | $125-170k + equity

• Product: The fastest email experience in the world for web & mobile. Beautiful, powerful, programmable – vim for email.

• Why: 1 billion people spend 3+ hours a day on email. They deserve superpowers that augment their productivity.

• Vision: Build a global brand that helps people be the best version of themselves.

• Traction: 135k+ on our waitlist. Beloved by users (https://superhuman.com/love). Most wanted product on Product Hunt.

• $18M+ Funding: First Round Capital, Sam Altman @ YC, and the Founders/CEOS of Stripe, GitHub, Reddit, Gmail, Intercom, AngelList, Dribbble

• Web Stack: Javascript, React.js, Go

• Values: Create Delight + Be Brilliant + Be Swift

==25 Person Team==

Founders of Rapportive (YC'10, acq by LinkedIn) and LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP, $3B company). Team comes from Apple, Facebook, Flipboard, Google, LinkedIn, Meraki, MyFitnessPal, and Zynga.

==Interview==

Phone call / coffee [1 hour] >> Onsite with the team [half day]

==Contact==

rvohra@superhuman.com | More info: https://superhuman.com/jobs

– Rahul Vohra, Co-Founder & CEO

Author here. Founded Rapportive (YCS10, acquired by LinkedIn) and now Superhuman. AMA!

Yep, Gmail and G Suite for now at least

Thank you!

We're here to stay — the world doesn't need another email app to come and go :)

Thank, we think so too :)

Both, actually. Rebuilding the tool, but also making it programmable :)

Superhuman - https://superhuman.com | Full-stack Engineer & iOS Engineer | Founding Team | Full-time | San Francisco | ONSITE

==Superhuman==

• What: Rebuilding the email experience. Think vim/sublime for email, for web & mobile: lightning fast, beautiful, and programmable

• Why: 900M+ people spend 1/3 of their day in email, they deserve superpowers that make them brilliant

• Vision: Greater productivity platform / OS

• Funding: $5M+ seed, led by First Round Capital (first VCs in Uber, Square, etc.)

• Stack: Javascript, React, Golang, Postgres, Objective-C/Swift

==Team==

• My Co-founder & CTO Conrad was VP Eng at Bugsnag, and built Pry (used by 25% of Ruby developers)

• My Co-founder Vivek founded Rapleaf/LiveRamp (acquired by Acxiom for $310M)

• I was previously Founder & CEO of Rapportive (YC'10, acquired by LinkedIn)

==Contact==

Email me: rahul@superhuman.com

– Rahul Vohra, Founder & CEO

Since Jason gets a lot of flak (not that he cares):

Jason was one of the first and most helpful investors in Rapportive (YCS10, acq LinkedIn). He believed in us when there was no obvious reason to.

Jason was one of the first investors I went back to for Superhuman. (He negotiated hard, but then so do I — that's just part of each side getting what they want.)

I'd work with Jason again in a heartbeat for my next company.

Superhuman | San Francisco | Lead Designer (Founding Team - Employee #3)

==Superhuman==

• We're rebuilding the email experience. Lightning-fast, beautiful, and highly programmable — with a collection of superpowers that make you brilliant at what you do.

• Why? 900M people spend 1/3 of their day reading and writing email; they deserve awesome, beautiful tools.

• We just raised $3M+ seed round from all-star investors last month.

==Role==

• Define and own the visual language at Superhuman. Delight and empower millions of people.

==Team==

• I previously founded Rapportive (YC'10, acquired by LinkedIn)

• My co-founder/CTO Conrad was VP Eng at Bugsnag, built pry (used by 25% of ruby developers)

• My co-founder Vivek founded Rapleaf/LiveRamp (acquired for $310M)

==Contact==

• More info: http://superhuman.com

• Email me: rahul@superhuman.com

Rahul Vohra, Co-Founder & CEO

I hear you dan. Let me see what I can do.

If by ads you mean the signature (that is 90% your photo, name, and occupation), then you can turn this off. It's completely optional.

Thanks for the level headed comment! The LI signature is totally optional by the way: you can turn it off.

There are good ways to remove 95%+ of the content even if you forward/reply from a different account. We'll talk about this in an upcoming post.

We don't store passwords or emails. Checkout our pledge of privacy: https://intro.linkedin.com/micro/privacy

Awesome work! I remember this way back when :)

Wow, this is cool :)

Mind if I add a link to it from the post?

Congrats guys. I miss our Lockitron :)

I plan to build up to a relatively complex model that hopefully you'll find useful or interesting.

Here's my intended sequence: for the next post, I'll model retention as a simple loss rate. After that I'll model retention with a curve over time. And after that I'll model the viral factor itself as a curve over time.

Is there something in particular you think it'd be interesting to cover?

Awesome. I remember discussing Rapportive with Manu back when we started and although we didn't end up working together (maybe he didn't want too many companies that would sell to LinkedIn :p ?), the quality of his insights was off the charts.

Hello Luke, and thank you! Can't wait to be there :)

thanks Diego! looking forward to it, to put it mildly :)

Not sure I understand what you mean by the difference?

Make you brilliant with people — as simple as ;)

Nope, we're still here :)

"Also, on Reply, there's an alignment problem with the Share Rapportive link up top"

Can you please send me a screenshot of this? rahul@rapportive.com

"Though, can you use the emails to check via LinkedIn or something"

Yes, we can make very intelligent guesses on what your emails are, but we haven't yet got round to doing it :)

ps. if you haven't seen it already, do checkout http://rapportive.com/feedback — it's where a lot of brainstorming goes down

You can change who Rapportive shows by typing email addresses in the To: field and cousins, and by hovering over email addresses or names in subject lines.

Maybe we should tune things so we show your own profile less.

Monetisation will be done by freemium features, and will happen soon (those features are entering ß now). What you currently use will remain free :)

Edit: I just reread your comment and realised I misunderstood. To stop your own emails showing up when you reply, please claim your email addresses: http://blog.rapportive.com/claim-your-email-addresses — does that help?

Do you mean an UI level integration, or actually putting the data in contacts?

Privacy is something we thought long and hard about; we go to great lengths to ensure we're doing the right thing.

Please do checkout http://rapportive.com/privacy

Does that help address what was scaring you?