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Out of curiosity I typed a question on the homepage and was directed to a login screen. Though if I had signed up, it might have been helpful to you, it wasn't a helpful enough answer to me to get me to sign up. Our priorities did not seem aligned, I didn't get my answer, you didn't get my Facebook ID.

Good luck.

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Thanks for the feedback. We only seek social login to make user's experience better. Setting up an identity helps them save their tasks, access them from different devices, login without verifying email etc. Any alternate flow you propose that we can incorporate?

  Setting up an identity helps them save their tasks

You're missing the point. Many people don't want to use Facebook or LinkedIn (or whomeever) to login to other companies because we don't want our tracking histories aggregated.

I agree with you and will work on your feedback in near future.

Just answering the question would have been a better initial experience for me. It might have demonstrated a value proposition that would justify sharing information.

The current approach doesn't provide a way for your company to earn the trust of potential customers.

Start off with a free sample that is really free... Google analytics aside. There is no necessity to know my identity to answer my question.

Thanks for the feedback, will definitely try to incorporate the same in near future.

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