this is now making me hungry

HN might be interested in the nature of the hack. It was a MITM attack by listening to background message handlers and impersonating the server.

The extension is not high value enough to build in high security certificate pinning (like some of the twitter replies recommended). I wonder if there is an easier way to avoid this.

bang on. It is quite straightforward to replicate the Superhuman experience with a plugin - www.simplehuman.email is one

simpl.fyi is the other

Is there a reason you prefer desktop apps over using email in the browser?

Mimestream user here: I can command-tab to an application.

Simplehuman for Gmail is what I use. It's a light weight browser extension that makes Gmail work like Superhuman with the same keyboard shortcuts and natural language snooze. https://simplehuman.email

Command center and improved keyboard shortcuts for Gmail, with nudges to help you pick up new shortcuts as you use Gmail.

HN - what do you think?

not yet, still in the process of proving success to at least 100 users before going to Product Hunt.

Command center and improved keyboard shortcuts for Gmail, with nudges to help you pick up new shortcuts as you use Gmail.

HN - what do you think?

This is quite cool.

also what if your pull request doesn't get merged?

You still get your local contribution; merges are counted as contributions by the person who presses merge. It makes sense in terms of what really happens in terms of Git, I guess.