At the end of all that, I was sent an invite for an onboarding call. Passed the special person test? Fantastic, but you still don't get to use Superhuman. I do have an SSD (or three), and no, I don't use a unified inbox. The questionnaire went fairly smoothly for me: I'm a decision-maker at a medium-sized company. Some of these questions are oddly specific - you'll need to tell Superhuman whether or not you use an SSD, and the year your PC was built in, for instance. If you don't fit the "right" profile, or if currently use email in ways Superhuman doesn't support (if you have a unified inbox set up, for example), that's as far as you get. This isn't just for user feedback, or even to customize the Superhuman experience to meet your needs. You'll need to fill out a workflow questionnaire, with details about your job role and how you use email. Next, there's an entire, grueling onboarding process, seemingly designed to winnow out people who don't fit a particular user profile. Getting a Superhuman invite is only the first step. With an invite-only closed beta, you'd think getting an invite was the hard part, right? Not even close. The very first step in a long onboarding journey I saw someone using Superhuman during a Zoom call and shamelessly asked for an invite. How did I get an invite? I'm the Director of Content at an LA-based digital marketing agency and work with people in the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. It's very much a "who you know" type of situation. The waiting list is over ten times as large. Around 20,000 people are on Superhuman at the moment. However, the actual user base remains tiny. Existing users can send invites to other interested people. However, it's still in a closed, invite-only beta. The email client has been feature-complete for years now. Right now, the key question with Superhuman isn't whether or not you should use it: it's whether or not you can. You can sign up for the Superhuman waiting list, but not much else in most cases. Is it worth the hype? Is it the future of email or just another Gmail wannabe? And is it worth $360 a year? Let's find out. But at $30 per month for what's essentially an app built on top of Gmail, it also raises questions about value. With built-in natural language processing, and the promise of the "100ms rule" - making all functions accessible in a fraction of a second - Superhuman definitely has a lot going for it. With a wait list that's 250,000 users long, Superhuman's creator Rahul Vohra touts it as "Gmail, if it'd been built today, not a decade ago." For the past two months, I've been using Superhuman, an invite-only email client Silicon Valley startup owners swear by.
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