evites suck
Evites are one of the suckiest things ever invented.
Ed Wood on dvd The evite sender puts my email address into some 3rd-party website, which I never asked for. They claim they will never sell my email address, but why should I trust them? If I wanted evite to have my address, I would have sent it to them.
As an evite recipient, I get a spam in my inbox. Ok, fine, I get lots of emails. But an evite email doesn’t give you the fucking information!
. It’s just useless noise — “hi! I sent you an email! But it’s empty! You should really go to this web page instead!”
What a waste.
Today, I realized that evite does one thing correct: it sets the Reply-to: field to the original sender’s email address. So from now on, I’m just going to respond via email and let the sender keep track of me the old-fashioned way.
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Use http://www.anyvite.com – You’ll find most of your evite clench-inducing moments to be a thing o the past! They were a term with us in the last YC round. Great guys, they’ll listen and implement your suggestions.
Well, I many things like meetup, anyvite, whatever would be better than evite.
The problem is convincing the rest of the world (or just my friends, really) to start using these better services rather than being stuck in the web 0.5 world.
Maybe that should be your next YC idea — how to convince the world to upgrade to a better mousetrap rather than living with “good enough”. If you could figure that one out, you’d be a rich man.