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I might consider moving the "Try it on this page" button up to the top, or making the "try it on your site" feature not require a login until you're ready to save your tour.

A lot of webapps today have conditioned me to just click the big "try it!" button without reading anything else. So, I clicked the "try on your site" button right away, but then gave up when I had to create an account.

On returning to the site a little later then I discovered the option to take a meta-tour of the tour-generating product, but it certainly wasn't the first thing I could find on the page.

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Thank you, this was really helpful.

Just moved the "Try it on this page" button to the top.

The reason why we require a login at that stage is because we generate a custom tour-creator library for your user, so, we need you to create an account.

I know stack overflow gets around this by creating an account for every visitor and keeping track of which account you are by using a cookie. If you later decided to sign up, your credentials replace the cookie for figuring out who you are.

Better yet "see it in action". Users don't want to try something until they understand it a bit.

Done. Thanks!

I think the "See It in Action!" button could be better placed, though I'm not sure exactly how. This is where I looked when I saw the site: : "Promote your website's most important content", "Create A Tour For Your Website", "What is it?" and read bold text in content, "Features" and read bold text in content, "Try it on your website", switch to HN comments. I never saw the "See It in Action!" button; the "Try it on your website" button attracted me more. Perhaps the "See" button should be bigger and centered, or right-aligned like the "Try" button, or have a border around it.

I just made the "See It in Action!" button bigger and red.

I think this version is better than what it used to be. Thank you for the suggestion :)

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