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Comment by rasengan | Hacker News Reader

This is very cool. I tried to signup though and it required a LinkedIn account. I deleted my LinkedIn account due to privacy policy changes I disagreed with.

Hope it can one day remove the prerequisite of a LinkedIn account.

Great idea and great work!

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Wow that’s insane, the last thing I would want is a SSO with LinkedIn of all things.

Its not SSO, just an input asking for it

Just signed up now, it appears they don’t do much validation on the input, I put in “linkedin.com/404” and it let me pass

When you ask a company a question via MA, they can look at your LinkedIn account before turning over any info.

So? They will see I don’t have one.

As lots of people on this thread have mentioned - not everyone has a LinkedIn profile, and making it a required field on the signup form is dumb.

Are you in the market to buy a startup? My guess is that most people wanting to legitimately buy a business will have a LinkedIn account.

I’m curious how you’d vet users if you were running the platform.

I deleted my Linkedin account as well. I use other social platforms.

I think you can use your email to signup. Linkedin is just an option.

> Hope it can one day remove the prerequisite of a LinkedIn account.

Agreed. Not a big LinkedIn fan, but was able to sign up with my really crappy minimal-info LinkedIn account.

Same here, tried to sign up last week but got stopped out by this requirement.

Andrew is a great guy.

Yeah, I agree about the LinkedIn requirement. I deleted mine for that and other reasons one of the primary being people bombard you asking for recommendations.

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