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We're opening up Receivd to users slowly. If you'd like to get VIP access, please tell people about Receivd on Twitter and Facebook using the buttons below.

I got this message when signing up for access and I have to ask: Why would I tell people on Twitter and Facebook about this if I haven't gotten a chance to use it yet?

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Do what I did: post to Facebook, and put in your message that you're testing it out and this is just a test post, not an endorsement. Then wait for the email (mine took ~30 mins).

Do this at late at night (like I did) and delete your FB post after you get the email (like I did).

Alternately, you can go the whole +hn route described below. It took longer than the FB route, but at least you're not participating in marketing of a sight-unseen web service.

I think the point is that asking a user to do this (even though they can get around it) is offensive. "Hey spam your friends and we'll give you free stuff" is starting to get too common.

Others feel differently and are compelled to share just to get access since they like the concept enough. We did think about it quite a bit, which is why we removed the 'share to get bumped up in the queue based on your referrals' to 'just the act of telling your friends makes you important to us, and you're marked as a VIP in the db'.

Anyway, email+hn@domain.com gets you access today without having to share.

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