Comment by jamisonbryant | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jamisonbryant | Hacker News Reader

Many on HN (and elsewhere) will lament the fact that there is no way to read about or test-drive your project without signing up (aside from going to GitHub). Many of us guard our emails/logins quite jealously, myself included. Please consider adding some of what you included in the description of this post on your site. Right now, it looks no different to me than a random login form I encountered on the Internet.

That being said, I caved and set up an account with a temp email and the password 'password' (might wanna check on those password security rules) just to play with it so I could give some constructive feedback. Unfortunately, generating a story isn't working (the spinner is spinning infinitely) and I see a few errors and warnings in the Developer Console. I'm not sure what the Short Stories page is supposed to show, either, but it also appears to be malfunctioning.

I don't mean to eviscerate your project - it is always exciting and scary to share something with the world. This needs a little more work before it's ready for show-and-tell, though, IMO. I'm not even sure what I would use this for. Best of luck.

Eviscerate it all you like, thats the point of me doing this so no hard feelings. As for the email bit, all it is used for is to store the email and make it feel safe since google auth seemed like a rather secure option in my limited experience. The short stories and chapter pages are meant to show short stories and chapters generated on the prompt endpoint. I was thinking about adding some help page to describe it in more detail since I know its much easier for me to know what does what as I have all the context for the project in my head

I think even just some screenshots and a blurb about what it is would be helpful on the home page. Your logged out UI should operate as the pitch for the product normally.

Like jamisonbryant said, people want some assurance about what they’re getting in exchange for their personal info and a direct line to their email.

Totally understandable, Ill do that here then, which is what you're suggesting right? Or do you mean just explain it on the login page?

Either-or of course, but a HN post is pretty short lived. You’ll get lots of mileage out of a good demo/pitch on your app’s page from people just coming across it.

Took a quick peek at your repo’s README, under features you have “Next.js”, cutting your teeth on some marketing is worth it! Think about what makes you want to use a tool, It’s probably not the framework it was built with.

Yeah I'm definitely trying to take advantage of that and adding it to my resume, since I obviously wont make something perfect, hell probably not even great, on my first go, but it was a learning experience and a way to make myself more appealing for future employers

You can be less formal if you want here! :) it’s not a job interview, we’re all excited you’re making something!

The bent for this space tends to be towards start ups, so expect some advice towards how to market/best feature something you made, vs what would look best on a resume.

Makes sense lol, it's all great advice so far though so I'm pretty happy with the responses and everything. Plus there were some things I hadn't thought much of, like trying to reassure users that I'm not doing anything nefarious with their email when they log in with google.

But that's what the nefarious people would also say...

It should be possible to show the editor without the login-wall, but with the text input being disabled and be replaced by a pre-defined input like "Write me a story about bunny rabbits" (I don't know what your app is supposed to do so this is my understanding after reading the scant descriptions), and tell the user to hit "Generate story!" - but when they click it, the mock-up won't be talking to ChatGPT, instead it will just get a response (or one of several bunny rabbit stories) you've stored as text.

That way you don't need a login-wall, and no one will abuse the project and eat up your ChatGPT tokens (is that the reason for needing a login?).

One of the reasons is that yes, although not the main reason. It was just easier to add a login so I can more easily save the stories they create and show those same stories to the user when they want to

re "" make it "feel safe" ""; Accwalling is one of those things in an app that need full rationales, seldom done in 2 words.

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