--- title: Pirate Metrics: Go Viral With Firebase | daily.dev description: Discusses using Firebase Dynamic Links and Firebase Invites to help apps go viral by making referrals frictionless. Dynamic Links redirect users to the right... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pirate-metrics-go-viral-with-firebase-je2n1yukb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Pirate Metrics: Go Viral With Firebase | daily.dev og:description: Discusses using Firebase Dynamic Links and Firebase Invites to help apps go viral by making referrals frictionless. Dynamic Links redirect users to the right... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pirate-metrics-go-viral-with-firebase-je2n1yukb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Je2n1YukB.png og:image:alt: Pirate Metrics: Go Viral With Firebase og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pirate Metrics: Go Viral With Firebase **[Firebase](https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Discusses using Firebase Dynamic Links and Firebase Invites to help apps go viral by making referrals frictionless. Dynamic Links redirect users to the right app store or deeplink to specific content, and preserve link data through the install process, enabling personalized onboarding such as auto-applying referral codes. Firebase Invites lets users share apps with contacts via SMS or email, sorted by communication frequency, with customizable rich HTML templates, without requiring sign-in or known email addresses. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How can I use Firebase Dynamic Links to personalize the onboarding experience for new users referred by existing users? Dynamic Links preserve associated data through the app installation process, so a referral code or parameter attached to the link can automatically be applied once the new user installs and opens the app. This lets you deeplink straight to specific content, like a product page, and apply referral bonuses without extra steps from the new user. _daily.dev surfaces practical growth engineering guides like this for developers building referral flows._ ### What is the difference between Firebase Dynamic Links and Firebase Invites for app referrals? Dynamic Links are shareable URLs that redirect users to the right app store or deeplink to specific in-app content, while Firebase Invites builds on top of Dynamic Links by letting users pick contacts from their phone to share the app with via SMS or email, without needing the user to be signed in or their email known. Invites also sorts contacts by communication frequency and supports customizable HTML email templates. _Developers comparing referral tooling options can find such breakdowns on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Dynamic App Links: Elevating your Android deep linking](https://daily.dev/posts/dynamic-app-links-elevating-your-android-deep-linking-ogoyxb2ug) · Android Developers Blog · 6 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#mobile](https://daily.dev/tags/mobile), [#firebase](https://daily.dev/tags/firebase) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pirate-metrics-go-viral-with-firebase-je2n1yukb) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Pirate Metrics: Go Viral With Firebase","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/pirate-metrics-go-viral-with-firebase-je2n1yukb","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pirate-metrics-go-viral-with-firebase-je2n1yukb"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:18:44.260Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:29:37.924Z","description":"Discusses using Firebase Dynamic Links and Firebase Invites to help apps go viral by making referrals frictionless. 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