Dan HanlyApps (and products) that feign scarcity to create a false luxury can get in the bin. Oh you need an invite? Well, fuck you then. When I registered onto Lemmy, the fediverse version of Reddit, there was no waitlist, I could just get in and start posting, so I did. It's not hard.
My daughter loves
the drink PRIME, but that's not because it's an objectively good product, it's because they've used scarcity as their main marketing tactic. Kids are lining up at the doors of ASDA at 8am for the chance to buy a bottle. The stuff tastes like, 'okay' at best.