undefined | Better HN

0 pointscodetrotter2y ago0 comments

Do you guys remember when Gmail was in private beta, back when it launched, and you needed an invite?

I got my invite from a website where people shared their invite links. After creating an account, and using it for a while I also got the ability to share invites with like 10 people or something.

I don’t even know if doing that kind of thing would work today though, given how many spammers and such trawl the internet. Probably some small number of people would grab every invite for themselves, instead of taking only one invite each.

0 comments

Hamuko2y ago

People are absolutely scraping the invite codes. It's not even hard considering that they're all /^bsky-social-[a-z0-9]{5}-[a-z0-9]{5}$/. That's why if you're begging for a Bluesky invite, you should ensure that people can actually contact you privately (which you can't do on HN).

criddell2y ago

> you can’t do on HN

You can include your email in your profile. I’ve done that and I get occasional emails from it.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse