I used to love google inbox but switched to fastmail when google killed Inbox and it was easy to choose between old gmail and fastmail. Hey might address why I loved about Inbox. However, it’s clearly designed with companies in mind. The $100/yr is steep for a personal email service. Plus, they don’t have custom domains yet.
I used to run my own mail server and it's not actually fun. If you run everything on the cheapest VPS possible then you still end up paying about $50 or thereabouts. So they're in the right ballpark. I'm happy to pay them extra so I don't have to worry about email server maintenance.
- It is more expensive than my current plan with Fastmail. Hey mail is 99$/year.
- As all of my current emails and contacts are in fastmail, I am not likely to switch to another providers. Also, because I am happy user, I don't see the need to switch.