[badtension]

It took me a while to understand what all those "growth hacks", shady tactics, dark patterns lead to in the end. In the beginning I was very excited (as an engineer) about A/B testing and how you can nudge people to boost clicks/revenue/whatever, measure everything and experiment.

A few years ago it got to me that this was how business sociopaths operate and why most modern things are broken. Chasing some holy grail and gaming the system instead of making useful things that matter to people.

[nicobelll]

Ah sorry about that - I thought I had set it up in a way that you can browse and view books without signing up but apparently most people were asked to sign up right away. Not my intention - I'll have to fix and make another post to get so actual feedback

[badtension]

That is great, my ramblings weren't necessarily directed towards your approach (I don't know your case), it's just something that is often on my mind lately, especially with big corps doing it more and more openly. Sorry if it sounded like that, I hope everything works out for you.