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by tiagovasc 666 days ago
The account creation process is free and takes just a few seconds. If you use Google to log in, you can access Raven immediately. For email sign-ups, you’ll receive a login link right away and it's just an extra click.

Nevertheless, I understand your point. We agree that having the option to try the app without creating an account would be ideal, and it's in our roadmap.
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chrisldgk 665 days ago
You don’t need to go that far, but I currently have no information at all about what your app looks like and if it’s useful to me at all. I would imagine you‘ll get a lot more sign ups with a better landing page that demos the app a little.
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tiagovasc 664 days ago
Fair enough, I thought the description here would be useful for that. I'll keep this in mind. Thank you!
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erklik 665 days ago
> The account creation process is free and takes just a few seconds. If you use Google to log in, you can access Raven immediately. For email sign-ups, you’ll receive a login link right away and it's just an extra click.

The average user leave web pages in 10-20 seconds unless you provide a clear value proposition to hold their attention.

I can make a account, and I can give you my email ... But why should I? What exactly even is Raven? The webpage tells me nothing, yet you think I am going to give over my email information (and name etc that's pulled from Google OAuth) ... for what again?

> We agree that having the option to try the app without creating an account would be ideal, and it's in our roadmap.

Not even that. Make a landing page. Stick a few screenshots on it, make a loom video. Anything that shows me what I am even signing up to.

More so, you're targeting developers, on HN. That's a more privacy focused crowd. No Privacy Policy. No contact information. No proof that my data won't be sold to some random company is not a great way to gain trust.

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tiagovasc 664 days ago
Makes sense. Thanks for the feedback!

We do have a landing page, although I thought people would roughly see if the app is interesting to them by the post itself. https://www.ravenotes.com/

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pentaphobe 665 days ago
There's your feedback then:

People generally don't blindly sign up for apps which expose exactly nothing about themselves or their privacy policies

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tiagovasc 664 days ago
True that. Thank you!
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