hiveinvite.com is a service that dates back to legacy chain days. Back then, there was no other way to create an account than going through a centralized company which didn't always do the best job accrediting real users, but was very open to create bot accounts.
My idea was that onboarding has to happen from the bottom, each user who can acquire account creation tokens, can onboard real users. From that, hiveinvite was born. The first interface to create accounts for other users without leaking the keys to the account creator. It also featured mass-invite links for communities to hand out on conferences or so.
By now, a lot of alternative options exist. I personally switched to using https://hivedapps.com for the speed of the process a while ago. And today a new Hive Invite Cards service was announced.
While I had planned to give the old code a vibe overhaul in the next days, @demotruk's take on the issue looks super slick and it seems hardly necessary to maintain a competing product that does pretty much the same thing but worse. I quickly concluded that it's time to sunset hiveinvite. And not just that, I gave him full access over the domain to use as he wants to.
So open a tab in your browser, navigate to https://hiveinvite.com and refresh it once in a while if it's still the old ugly site. And then create your own Hive Invite Cards and get them out there! :)
hey i had an idea about hive invite since it needs a website for it.
What if:
Keychain accepts a invite QR code or key. Every user can create one in @keychain and send it to someone. This way it could become very close to other chains in terms of user experience and keys gets not as many times lost ( in theory).
Keychain could handle operations ( trustful), so less bad actor potential.
just 2 cents to it :)
Always happy to add more community tools integration, especially regarding onboarding, which is still a big pain point.
100% and Keychain is the most intuitive way to go. Thanks for reading it :)
thats really cool! How does it handle the " keys" to download. I can imagine this is pretty cool for face to face account creation or for event / youtube video banners.
Wow! That is so great that you gave access to that domain name!
Onboarding new people AND giving them some resources to start using Hive will certainly make a difference!
It would be great to try this out.