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I tried your website thought of a question to ask and then your bot said something about scammers and needing to sign up.

Some meddling advice 1) think about giving an easy-win to users so they actually want to sign up. You didn't give one, and in fact surprise users in an annoying way because you don't tell users they need to sign up until after they've already submitited their question. Not even a teaser, just completely zero value.

2) be upfront when you're affiliate with a product. HN isn't totally against about self-promotion, but you have to be upfront about it being your product and not just a cool thing you're using.

[jrpt]

Sure, but the counterargument is that it costs real money to run queries, so it limits the amount of queries per day by your user account. Signing up is free, I just don't want someone racking up huge bills and abusing it.