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Sorry, will not create an account for this.

Don’t worry about over usage. It will die off soon unless it hits off the park..

Actually I think it’s a pseudo-rule (guideline) that Show HN posts should have an account-free demo.

> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, ideally without barriers such as signups or emails. You'll get more feedback that way.

Is the exact quote.

Lesson learned :)

The source for that quote is the "Show HN Guidelines", which can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Haha ok, no problem

Same, friend. You need to get rid of the login barrier. It's going to cause the vast majority of people to bounce.

If you have this instrumented with analytics, I'd wager 90+% of people are leaving. (Posting the retro might make for an interesting HN follow-up.)

88 ^^' . You're right, I'll remove the login barrier, and repost with the follow up. Hope to see you there :)

Update the page to have some sort of free demo or example and then repost :)

Requiring a login (or god forbid a credit card) to is a huge amount of friction that gets in the way of people playing with your product and getting excited about it.

Yeah hard realization ^^ Will change it

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