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This is not entirely true. What about services that actively want to add people, but just need time to scale up their resources? Then they can add users as they

by s3p 3y ago

This is not entirely true. What about services that actively want to add people, but just need time to scale up their resources? Then they can add users as they have the capacity to. I signed up on Beeper's waitlist a few months ago and just got access last week. I am extremely happy with their service and believe it was well worth the wait. There was no spam and destruction, only a short wait and then I got access. Can you see how it is potentially beneficial to do this rather than hope you get the exact amount of users you can handle at any moment in time?

falcor84 3y ago
That's not what this thread is about; the OP explicitly said "for an upcoming product". As I see it, it depends on the default. If you are already actively taking on users but are throttling the sign-ups due to unexpectedly high demand, that's much more legitimate than just getting people's emails into a list, knowing it will be months before you're able to sign them up.