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Lemonvite
Digital invites and RSVPs. Five bucks per event. No ads.
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Digital invites and RSVPs. Five bucks per event. No ads.
20 followers
Lemonvite is digital invitations and RSVP tracking for a flat $5 per event. No ads on the invite, no coins, no subscription, no marketing emails to guests. Evite shows your guests banner ads. Paperless Post charges "coins" that turn a $5 card into a $20 checkout. I wanted neither, so I built this. Build an invite in a minute or upload your own, send by email or SMS, track RSVPs on one dashboard. On Product Hunt: your first event is free for the first 50 to comment.
Hey PH,
I'm Ran. I built Lemonvite because every time I tried to send a party invite I had to choose between Evite plastering car-insurance banners across my friends' screens, or Paperless Post charging me $14 in "coins" for a digital card. Partiful was too much of a gen-z vibe and I was inviting parents in their '40s to a kid birthday. I realized there's a pain point affecting a decent enough size of users.
Lemonvite is $5 per event. Flat. No ads on your invite, no marketing emails to your guests, no subscription, no upsells. You design the invite in about a minute (or upload your own / import from Canva), send it by email, SMS (US/Canda) or WhatsApp (worldwide), and track RSVPs on one dashboard.
Since leaving corporate tech a couple of years ago, I've taken on contract work and built a few projects of my own. Lemonvite is the one that's taken off. It's been live for a while now, used by real people for real events, and this is the first time I'm bringing it to PH.
Two things I'd love from this community:
Drop a comment with feedback or a question and I'll comp your first event, free for the first 50 of you.
Tell me what's broken. I read every comment today.
Thanks for taking a look.
Ran
Genuine question for the maker... why charge $5 flat instead of going free-with-ads like everyone else in this space? Feels like the harder road but the better one.
@delbarital Good question!
Short version: ads are the old world, and the math behind free-with-ads is a trap I'd rather not build my product around.
A few things converged on the $5 decision.
First, the experience. When you're sending an invite, the last thing you want is a banner ad for teeth whitener sitting next to your kid's birthday photo. It's a little embarrassing to send to your guests, which is exactly why Evite turns "remove ads" into a paid upgrade. The whole bait-and-switch of gating basic features behind a tier is annoying, and people see through it. Most hosts are already spending a few hundred dollars on the actual event. Charging them five bucks for a clean invite they're not embarrassed to send is an easy trade.
Second, the philosophy. When something is free, you're the product, and somewhere people know it. When you pay for something, you expect it to work, you expect support, and you expect to get what you paid for. I'm more aligned with that deal. Charging a small fee for an ad-free experience is how most decent software works now. The ad model is about squeezing revenue out of you quietly instead of just asking.
Third, the economics, which is the real reason the big players can't follow me here. They bid against each other for the keywords people search when they want to make a digital invitation, and the cost per click is close to what I charge for an entire event. Once you're paying that much to acquire a host, you have to squeeze every dollar out of every visitor to justify it. Guest-side traffic is huge, so monetizing guests with ads looks irresistible. That's the trap: they can't stop, because the economics they built won't let them.
I can't win that game. No funding, no foothold, crowded space. But I don't have their cost structure either, so I don't need their revenue per user. That frees me to just solve the original problem cheaply and get out of your way. With Lemonvite you're in and out in five minutes, and nobody gets advertised to.
UpUp
Used this for my daughter's upcoming birthday and loved it. Would really rather pay a small one time fee than send ads to all my friends. All those other 1990's invite platforms have gotten ridiculous.
Stripe
I love the aesthetic of this AI-generated invitation card. It’s beautiful.
@tanin Thanks Tanin! Funny enough, how much people care about the invite design varies a lot. For a kid's birthday, most hosts just want something their kid lights up at, and the AI invites nail that in a few seconds. Weddings are a different story. Those hosts usually have a specific look in mind, so they import from Canva or upload their own art and use Lemonvite for the sending and RSVP side.
That's how I think about the AI here: it does a genuinely great job generating invitations, and if the first one isn't quite right you get a few tries to dial it in. It's there to kill the busywork for people who'd rather not spend an afternoon designing, not the whole point of the product. And if you've already got a specific look in mind, bring your own and I'll handle getting it out the door and tracking who's coming.
Stripe
@ranmagencom That's an interesting insight on birthday vs. wedding.
I usually have specific looks in mind. I'm just unable to produce it myself. Not enough Photoshop/Photopea skill 😂. AI is so handy for this like you mentioned. I love that you support AI for this part of the invite.
We used it for our kid's birthday party. Super easy and convenient to use!
@drorkatzav Thanks for your support! Let me know if you were missing any any creatures or anything in the experience that could have been better.
Cool product! I used it twice and loved it
@nufar_segal_bareket I love to see a returning customer, keep throwing those parties :)