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by GuiA 4775 days ago
Hmmm... what? Here's what I see when I click your link:

http://i.imgur.com/Ej18Sap.png

Is my browser not rendering something? No info about the product, a simple formfield with a "OK" button in a simplistic style?

Sure, open source it if you want. What does that entail, besides posting 1 HTML/CSS/JS file? Usually people open-source large projects that solve a very precise need that can be easily re-used by others. Sure, sign-in pages are a common "problem", but they're practically the "Hello world" of web development. Would one post on HN to ask if they should release their "Hello world!" program? (even if it has scrolling characters with nice ncurses rendering!)

I'm thoroughly confused here. :/

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Hi Guia, nope that is rendering correctly. What we've build is simple, but more than what you've seen so far. It's a page for collecting email addresses and showing how many people have signed up ahead of you and behind you. It also allows you to immediately skip ahead in line by sharing on Facebook and Twitter, something we haven't seen before on other pages like this.

Nope, there is not info on the actual product we are building yet accept for the email that is sent out when you sign up. We wanted to keep some mystery, but based on others' comments it sounds like we should be give at least some info about the product.

The social sharing to move in a queue has been used many times before. Sites like betali.st and erlibrid showcase this.

I believe launchrock and similar companies specialise in these kinds of things. Open sourcing may be a good move, but many others employ existing systems with similar functionality (although they may not be open).