Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Lobste.rs invitation tree, visualized
Lobste.rs makes its entire invitation tree public. I scraped it and built this interactive visualization. Some interesting patterns: - The top 10 inviters are responsible for ~40% of all users. - The tree is surprisingly shallow: Most users are only 4-6 generations from the founder. Max depth is around 15. Built with Sigma.js for WebGL rendering. Works on mobile too. (I am seeking a lobste.rs invite if anyone's willing! – my email is in my profile)
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Invite.social▲111Free classy customizable event RSVPs & invitations
2024 · invite.social · its alternatives →
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InviteRobot▲108Instant subscription for paid Slack communities
2017 · inviterobot.com · its alternatives →
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800+ Invites so far. Don't buy Clubhouse Invite
2021 · buymeacoffee.com · its alternatives →
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Graph of subreddits. Contribute to ghgr/reddit-graph development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Everything that would be here is in the README. I hope this gets big, it has tons of potential.
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We spent a lot of time working on this, including the demo, and we'd love some feedback. It might take a little bit of time to load if lots of people are trying the demo, so please try to be patient. We spent a lot of time to ensure you'll be impressed. Feel free to email us at tony or chuck @graphmuse.com if you'd like to discuss further!
2012 · graphmuse.com · its alternatives →
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Use beta invite code "hacker news" to sign up - only 50 people... This is VERY early and is missing lots of features but you can help shape the future... Let me know what you think... See http://www.ubercamp.net/
2013 · its alternatives →
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I've tracked the top 3000 subscribed (and some subreddits that I visit frequently) subreddit's active user over time, so you know when to post to get the most feedback! I come from a nodejs background, and this is the first time coding with Go, so the structures might not be standard. But feel free to give me any feedbacks!
2024 · redditdb.info · its alternatives →
- 13RO
I was lucky enough to have my site trending on Friday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25872922). It’s an icon site that lists open source icons. I wanted to share some stats on the results after 3 days. Worth noting was that I submitted it on a Friday morning (at which point I went for a walk and a coffee; eek). - 24,997 page views. I (embarrassingly) didn’t have GA set up when I first submitted it, so this is probably missing a few hundred page views - 21 “feedback” emails (half of which were spam). I assume such a high percentage of these were spam because my Feedback…
2021 · its alternatives →
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100+ Invites so far. Bluesky Invite train
2023 · buymeacoffee.com · its alternatives →
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I built over 3-4 weeks to solve my own pain point, picking up rust along the way. It has a browser version that works online/offline and cross platform desktop as well. It was a pretty intense sprint. About TreeSnap, well it simplifies this preparation of sharing code with Chat LLMs. In my use case, making o3 via ChatGPT a lot more cost-effective to use for these tasks compared to Cursor: How it works: Select files/folders → generates a single text bundle + ASCII tree Instantly shows per-file and total token counts (list & treemap views) Quickly trim unnecessary files or folders to…
2025 · treesnap.app · its alternatives →
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This morning I've submitted our project to HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4099054 Got pretty helpful feedback. But that wasn't the only thing. 478 people requested invite out of 755. 63% conversion rate. Almost 9K unique visitor visited our website. At some point in the morning I was seeing 400+ active users on the website. Unbelievable. 35 people registered without telling them how to register. ( You cannot register directly, there is only a login form - but they figured out a way :) http://imgur.com/Kbf9J 6K people visited directly from Hacker News, 1K from Twitter ( I guess…
2012 · its alternatives →
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Hey there -- thought I'd show this simple app off. I'm bad at rails/html/css/js but made a Rick Roll generator in just under a day with rails! It's kind of incredible how relevant the rick roll still is after ~15 years. Any generated Links Dynamically make opengraph tags to disguise themselves as whatever the user inputs. It's been pretty fun to see people making their own Rick Roll links. Everyone wants to make a million dollar SaaS app but making dumb little apps like this is something I might do more of! Also -- it's kind of messed up how easily you could phish someone,…
2022 · instantrickroll.com · its alternatives →
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New beta of http://devops.stackexchange.com/, tracked from http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/97295/devops Since it is closed to private invitations for the first 20 days, you should ask for an invite from an existing member.
2017 · its alternatives →
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InviteVia lets you design and share beautiful digital invitations for weddings, birthdays, and any celebration. Choose from elegant templates, add event details, and publish a single link you can share anywhere. Guests can RSVP in seconds without accounts, including plus-ones and
Aug 2026 · inviteviaapp.com · its alternatives →
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Do you want to monetize a private group/ channel/ community? Use Subjoin to create a personal membership page in minutes. It's easy to use and free to try out. No need to integrate Stripe if membership is free. - - - - I have never built something this fast, what a thrill! I saw there was no easy way to create a simple subscription page. Big platforms are confusing and expensive for simple needs. - - - - What are you building? Would love to connect with like-minded people on X: @tjmakingof
2024 · subjoin.me · its alternatives →
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