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Reserve your favorite username in new startups

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6 pointsashwin_kumar15 comments

And for old startups:

Would prefer that instead of entering in your password (hack me please), it generated a random password for you, and then securely sent it to the given email address.

sorry for late replies guys, we got low karma and can't reply as often/fast as we'd like. thanks for the feedback/input. would reduce signup friction too, nice!

Please don't send passwords via email. http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/devs

YEP ;) ... ofcourse ;)

Interesting idea. Would love to specify the categories of startups I'm interested when I sign up. This way your startups can also get only interested people.

Feedback noted, thanks a lot AlexanderZ! Were planning on it, been asked by more than a few this feature :)

Does this do a disservice to startups by inflating their user count?

sorry for late replies guys, we got low karma and can't reply as often/fast as we'd like. We got some countermeasures planned to avoid inflating user numbers. Kind of been feed to us by interested startups :)

Yeah whatever you have to do to trick investors, right?

"We got 5000 new users in the first hour!"

ROTFL ... no...

The reason is on the "about us" link on the site ;). we needed it, couldn't find it, so we we started working on it and launched a landing to test if this pain was only ours. apparently it's not. Posted it in a few italian startup groups and shared it with a few friends. It went by itself from there, we found ourselves on product hunt, than here in HN...it just...happened :)

would it be fair to say that your site currently does absolutely nothing except for take usernames, email addresses and passwords?

yes, like all startups with a registration page that are not yet in beta :)

perhaps state that on the signup page, so people don't bother, then? there are identical sites that actually exist already, so why would anyone be interested in signing up here?

edit: to be clear, I mean: there isn't value in "testing a market" when the market is already tested.

as this is focused on a slightly different segment with different "users" than what's already out there (established startups and companies vs new startups), we figured we test the market and get some feedbacks from both side of the market to test if it's needed/wanted and how it should function based on both side's wants, needs and objectives. It has proven very useful to define beta features as well as to help us develop a vision around it

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