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Comment by GordonS | Hacker News Reader

I'd like to try this, but the "Try Now for Free!" button wants me to create an account - I don't want to create an account just to have a quick look. I'd much rather have a quick look, then maybe create an account later if I wanted to try it more meaningfully.

If you're an HN regular, I guess you were expecting a comment like this - is there an open URL we can use just to get a feel for it?

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^ this. I was excited to try it out, but there is no wayI create an account just to take a quick look. I am 99% sure this will not work for me and my team, but I wanted to just check, maybe show it to my team. This needs no registration demo.

Seconded, I would like to have a look but I won't give out my email without researching who you are more thoroughly. And I can't "Try Now..." if I have to go spend time researching before I try it.

And I don't think using a fake or alternative email is an option.

Account creation doesn't require clicking a link in the email, I just used 'buttmonkey' as the username and 'buttmonkey@mailinator.com' as the email.

And now I am stuck in the tutorial because it wants me to zoom in and out with the mouse wheel or the track pad, and I am at my desk with my computer closed and plugged into my monitor and my Wacom tablet and it doesn't recognize using the touch ring set to 'scroll'. It's sure not doing a good job of suppressing Safari's right-click menus when I hit the stylus button I have set to right-click to rotate the view, either.

I think they shut down Mailinator emails (tried Mailismagic and mailinator and both times I was "unauthorized")

Mailinator still works. The homepage doesn't suggest emails anymore but there's a box at the top of the page for whatever fake email you want to check.

Sorry this was a sendgrid issue that has now been fixed

Wow, that's some pretty disappointing behaviour if true. Since at leat one of the authors is here, would be good to get a comment from them on this?

Is opening the computer a possibility?

It's under the desk, hidden away.

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