Launched Lemonvite on Product Hunt today: $5 per event, no ads, no subscription.
Hey IH,
Today I'm launching Lemonvite on Product Hunt. It's a digital invitations and RSVP platform. $5 flat per event. No ads on the invite, no marketing emails to guests, no subscription, no coins, no premium tier.
Lemonvite is one of a few projects I've built since leaving corporate tech (alongside contract work), and it's the one that's taken off. Built it because Evite is unusable (banner ads on my friend's wedding invite) and Paperless Post is expensive (the "coins" model turns a $5 idea into a $20 checkout). I figured if I charge $5 per event with zero margin games, that's a real business.
It's been live for a while. Most growth so far has been word of mouth. Today is the first real distribution push.
What I'd love from this community: honest feedback. If you've ever sent an invite and hated the experience, tell me why.
https://www.producthunt.com/products/lemonvite?utm_source=other&utm_medium=social
Will post a retro in a week with numbers.
One thing I'd be curious about:
How much of Lemonvite's appeal comes from the invitation experience itself versus the feeling that the pricing is fair?
I'm asking because the post spends almost as much time describing what you refuse to do as what the product does.
That feels interesting.
You would be, or you are?
One thing I'm curious about, is this is the second time you've replied to me with something that smells like open claw wrote it. A gentle negging, a small criticism hiding behind an "honest" question.
Last time you tried to convert it into a coaching session, full of em-dashes.
Something with your responses just doesn't feel authentic.
Fair question.
I am curious.
And for what it's worth, there wasn't a hidden criticism in the question.
The reason I asked is that your post spent a noticeable amount of time talking about what Lemonvite refuses to do, which struck me as unusual. Most founders spend that space describing features.
That made me wonder whether users are primarily responding to the invitation experience itself, or whether they're responding to the feeling that someone is finally pricing the category in a way that feels reasonable.
Maybe the answer is obvious from your side. From the outside, it wasn't obvious to me, which is why I asked.
I don't know if you have used those kinds of invitation platforms. They are full of pain points. So my messaging is "[It does the thing, without the pain]". That is exactly the audience I'm capturing. the ones who have done this before and have suffered from the same pain points as many others have because these platforms are honestly not user friendly. They're trying to squeeze every dollar out of every viewer, hosts and guests included, and it's blatantly obvious.
So when you say I talk about what it doesn't do, I am talking about what it does and what it doesn't do is it doesn't do the painful bits.