If the "Get Started" button - the first thing you see on the website without scrolling - does nothing but yield a white page that asks for an email address, you're alienating a lot of interested users.
You need to give something in order to get something from me. For all I know there is nothing behind the email wall. I'm frankly tired of email marketing and I don't want my email collected and sold off.
Looks like this site tries to give you informed choices. Choices that can only be informed with personal data. I'm not giving up my personal info in exchange for sorting credit card offers. I can find and sort the offers on my own without becoming a source of revenue.
> Trove is just a passion project right now.
Right now. But maybe tomorrow they’ll change their mind?
I left here as well
I went back and then started scrolling down and probably figured that it wants my CC purchase data to do this. I did not continue with signup mainly because of trust although the value proposition sounds good.
Also, how is "We never see, store, or use your credit card information at any time" consistent with "We analyze your spending"?
We only ask for your email address so you can sign in later to see your results. I agree it's a bit unintuitive that we don't "verify" your email, but that's because it's ultimately linked to your bank account.
"Credit card information" in this case refers to the fact that we don't have access to your CC number, credit limit, etc. One of the early feedback we got was that people were worried we would have access to their CC number, so we added that bit in to clarify. I agree that the wording could be clearer.
Even as a demo of how it works and the interface. Then if people want to automate that part, they can make an account and feed their bank data over.
You should also look into the features apps like MAXIVU have. I tell it all the credit cards I have, then if I cant remember my rewards, I can check what card I should use at what store.
I clicked the link before clicking the HN comments. I clicked Get Started, saw the e-mail prompt, and immediately went "meh" and closed the tab and came to the HN comments to see if anyone had signed up to see if it was worth my time.