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Comment by danielskogly | Hacker News Reader

I run exactly 0 analytics and ads on Wishy.gift, nor do I plan to ever do so. Almost 300 users are using the service so far, and I have no idea who most of them are, where they come from, or how they found the service. There's a huge uptick in the number of registrations now before Christmas, but I'm really hoping that people might find it useful for birthdays, weddings and baby registries as well.

All feedback is very welcome :)

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This sounded perfect until I went to your site and found the one and only way to sign in was via fb.

I mean, it’s nice that -you’re- not tracking me, but you’re still requiring I invite fb to track what I’m doing.

So... for those of us for whom “I absolutely don’t track you” actually matters, I don’t know if this is usable.

I get why it’s easier from the developer perspective, but I don’t have a Facebook account and certainly won’t create one for any reason, let alone such a service. Hopefully the developers/owners of the service recognize this and allow more because not doing so eliminates potential customers.

I definitively recognize this, which is the reason for the "Why Facebook?"-explainer on the site. It alienates a lot of users, especially in the HN-crowd, and I'm hoping to do something with it at some point.

Another consideration: it looks like those of us without fb accounts probably can't even look at lists or buy for friends / family. This is a bummer on a personal level, but also limits usefulness in cases where anyone who would see the list doesn't use fb or feel comfortable using it to log in.

To the developer: please consider adding email-based login, or maybe just unique links sent by email for viewers without fb.

Since yesterday, it's possible to view the items in someone's list without logging in. If you open your own wishlist in incognito mode you can see how this looks like :)

The dependency on fb sucks.. I don't have fb.

I agree. Many of my friends and family don't have FB either, and have their varying reasons for not wanting it.

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