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I think you should make it a little more obvious that you start off without creating an account, because I was a little off put at first that it looks like Personal Capital, Mint, etc where you have to provide a bunch of personal info before even seeing anything.

Anyways very interesting graphs and stuff, I'd be interested if once you have the monte carlo simulations up if there was like a demo mode to just show what it did for a test person to show the value of what it could do for me.

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love love love that I can get started without putting in ANY personal information. I agree that making this more obvious is a good thing.

Yes, seconded! Love it!

There are too many tools I never try because I get hit by the "Create account" dialogue.

Any thoughts on the best way to make this more obvious to new users? Just some copy on the front page saying you can test without an account? Or perhaps focus on the fact that there will be a "sandbox" where you can test everything right away with canned data(?)

For me personally it's fine as it is - I was simply positively surprised to see that I got to play around with it without creating an account first.

I suppose you could get more users that have a lower interest in the product to try it by adding either one or your solutions. Those that have a higher interest off the bat will click "Getting started" anyways (and expect to get an "Open account" dialogue).

Thanks! Do you mean like a feature tour video on the home page, or something more like quick "templates" you could choose from that would pre-populate everything with sample data?

I personally would like the second (like the data doesn't need to be realistic or anything but I would want to see what the scenarios are like that are being run), but a walk thru would work too.

I would also like to see more of a demo of the product before having to go step by step into filling out my data

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