Monthly Archives: February 2012

Why viral invite systems suck

There is a grow­ing trend for web­sites to ask us to invite our friends and fol­low­ers to their web app, so that we can be bumped ahead in their early access queue. It is called the viral-invite sys­tem, which was prob­a­bly started by Forkly. Heck, Launchrock built a startup out of this idea. I am