[lxgr]

Don’t make me input things without telling me that I’ll need a login to see the result.

Requiring account creation upfront is fair; this is a very unpleasant dark pattern preying on the sunk cost fallacy.

[dev1398]

I totally hear you! We looked at the comments here and are going to make a lot of the features on the product available without account creation! Appreciate the feedback

[RamblingCTO]

Be careful to not overfit to HN comments if they're not your target audience though! Sometimes the vibe is "I don't wanna pay for stuff and I can build that myself" and that probably isn't your target audience

[lxgr]

My complaint isn't about having to pay, it's about not knowing upfront whether I will.

[RamblingCTO]

And that's totally valid, I agree 100%. Show me what I get and I'll happily pay

[lxgr]

To be clear, it's totally fair to require account creation – data and customer relationships are currencies too, after all – in my view. (I might personally choose to not use it then, and that's just as fair.)

I'd just have liked to know about it before selecting a few of my cards, which took me a minute or so. That's too much time/effort to get nothing in return.

[alex-onecard]

Thank you for the comment - based on your feedback we have enhanced a bit the experience for users without logging in.

Now on the landing page users are able to input cards to their liking and compare them at different vendors/categories to determine the best card without login.