Comments on: Invitastic Brings Online Invitations Back to Basics

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By: That Kid from Omaha

That Kid from Omaha — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:04:07 +0000

@9: I second that. Crush3r’s got the lightweight invite down, minus the login/registration, ads, and heavy, graphical themes. Users can send audio and video invites, too. (Disclosure: I know several of the guys behind the product, but have been impressed with what they’ve done.)

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By: Ericson

Ericson — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:10:05 +0000

I was *almost* concerned that they bit off crusher’s verticali model, on first glance. Lots of room in the invite space, but I don’t think this is doing much.

By: Alaska Miller

Alaska Miller — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:16:04 +0000

A SF-based company is doing something similar: Crush3r.com. Minimalistic invites, as evites originally did.

By: Phil G

Phil G — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:13:20 +0000

What??? This is revolutionary? This is about as lame as theyrebeautiful.com. Remember that one with its terrible aliasing of flower images? Good god! How much money are these people making?!?

Lets look at who is actually visiting that site today:
http://www.alexa.com/data/deta.....utiful.com

ANSWER: NOBODY!

As soon as you are all done writing your blogs/shils - interest drops to zero. Horray for Web2.0!

By: so its..

so its.. — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:59:38 +0000

but why make us register? evite doesn’t require registration to send an invite.
this is why i wont use it, other than that its simple and clean, that i like.

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By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:56:39 +0000

Ryan: lots of people don’t use Outlook or other calendars. Plus, I’d guess a lot of people use calendars provided by their employer (outlook) and might not want their parties on their work calendars anyway.

In my opinion, keeping tabs on the number of guests coming, and allowing all guests to see the guest list is another advantage to invite services like this.

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Fernando Freitas Alves aka Mussarela — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:44:53 +0000

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By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:35:18 +0000

I agree with your point about calendaring programs, in fact I had a problem sending one to someone a while ago (in a different time zone but that’s a whole different story).

What drove me to this page from my news reader was: WTF? How is this the front line of cool tech start ups I want to read about at TechCrunch. This is a site that sends out invitations. Seriously.

If you wanted to make a point about better usability or something I’m sure there’s a better site to illustrate your point.

By: Mark Hendrickson

Mark Hendrickson — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:27:04 +0000

Ryan - Well for one, lots of people don’t use calendaring programs. And for two, Invitastic keeps track of RSVP information so the organizer and guests can see who’s coming. For those reasons alone I think it’s a nice service to have.

By: Voices.com CEO

Voices.com CEO — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:20:30 +0000

I’d agree that simplicity and clarity are strong suits here. The captcha with both text and audio was a nice touch. Had I known that the “Location” field was going to provide a link to a map, I would have entered in an actual address. That could have been auto-populated, just like the “Event Name”.

The activation process went well and the invitation was received by my list as planned. Good work guys!

By: Ryan Merket

Ryan Merket — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:17:38 +0000

I really hate to do this, but, here it goes.

I hate it.

How is this any different from opening iCal, or Outlook, and creating an entry, adding your friends to it and hitting ’send’.

That’s what makes the other sites so much better — the ability to have more than just iCal or Outlook.

Maybe I’m missing something?