[optshun]

I get it, and labor on the question as well with the tools I make.

The problems you present seem easily managed with an option to sign up while limiting certain use cases to those using the service anonymously.

I like a limited local first design, and a “demo login” with a simulated fully featured account that I feel allow a person to make the decision to share a piece of their identity with our product without any stress or coercion.

I tried to acknowledge that they may think the sign up is necessary for them, and that is a completely acceptable decision to make. I was just pointing out that it carries the risk of turning away weirdos like me.

If I was to build something in the LLM space I would likely try to glean some answers to these questions by cold emailing the phind team to ask them what considerations went into their decision to provide their tool in the way they do.

[stevage]

Do services like mailinator still exist? Temporary emails that you can use then throw away if there's no pay-off?