> Superhuman's sub-100ms rule—plus their focus on keyboard shortcuts—changed the email game in a way that no one's been able to replicate, let alone beat.

https://blog.superhuman.com/superhuman-is-being-acquired-by-...

Being fast helps, but is rarely a product.

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IshKebab 7 days ago | parent [-]

I often hear this sort of thing "Facebook was a success using PHP therefore language choice isn't important" or in this case "superhuman made their product fast and they still failed so speed isn't important".

It's obviously wrong if you think about it for more than a second. All it shows is that speed isn't the only thing that matters but who was claiming that?

Speed is important. Being slow doesn't guarantee failure. Being fast doesn't guarantee success. It definitely helps though!

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fuzzfactor 7 days ago | parent [-]

>Being fast helps, but is rarely a product.

>Being fast doesn't guarantee success.

Sometimes it can be a deciding factor though.

Also sometimes speedyness or responsiveness beyond nominal is not as much of a "must have" compared to nominally fast performance in place of sluggishness.

	▲	IshKebab 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah absolutely. At some point you go from "successful despite being slow" to "would have been a success if it wasn't so slow".