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So I just wanted to try Laravel Factory. I was likely to buy it as I tried some Laravel CRUD builders in the past and each had some flaws that your project seem

So I just wanted to try Laravel Factory. I was likely to buy it as I tried some Laravel CRUD builders in the past and each had some flaws that your project seems not to have. However, I couldn't complete registration as you don't allow disable throwaway domains. I just wanted to let you know it makes no sense whatsoever. I never disclose my real e-mail addresses at that stage. Just wanted to let you know - and also others who make the same mistake. If you don't want my money, that's OK.

welly 8y ago
Just tested it myself with guerillamail and mailinator. And as you say, "Disposable email addresses are not allowed". I get why they'd do this because obviously they want to capture potential buyers of their software to pester at a later date to buy but I'm not a potential buyer until I've tried it. So I'm another one that won't be handing over any money.
danieltillett 8y ago
It is quite possible that they have found that people who use disposable email accounts never buy anything. My company also blocks disposable email address because we found that people using them were just abusing our service and our sales went up after doing so. The funny thing is apart from emailing the free code we almost never contact anyone since we know 99% of our free users are not potential paying customers and so there is no point wasting our time on them. We only know this because they give us their real email address which allows us to screen them out.
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
  Maybe for some services that you can abuse blocking disposable addresses might make sense, but not for this one. In any case, I finally decided to register using a throwaway spambox from Gmail instead of Mailinator (what difference does it make, really...) and it turns out the Laravel Factory is inferior to Voyager as it doesn't support roles out of the box. Which is a pity as other things have been solved quite nicely. I'll give it a try in a few months, maybe they catch up.
  - danieltillett 8y ago
    It is rather silly to block disposable addresses if you are going to allow free email services like gmail. In our case we block all free and disposable email address since nobody without a corporate or university email address uses our service (it is aimed at scientists). We used to let anyone use the service for free without registering for small scale use, but what we found were some commercial suppliers (our target market) were just telling their customers to use our free service rather than fork out the $0.02 it would have cost them to buy a license on assays they were selling for $10. Once cutoff from the ability to freeload, quite a number of these commercial suppliers decided to buy a license from us. The good thing about this is not only did we get the business, but their customers got the benefit of our service automatically.
laravelfactory 8y ago
We have removed the validation for disposable email addresses. Thank you for the feedback. Initially, we used it just to make sure that system is not misused but we understand your concern and accept it. We are also considering the roles part for authorization. Stay tuned. Thanks.

welly 8y ago

Just tested it myself with guerillamail and mailinator. And as you say, "Disposable email addresses are not allowed". I get why they'd do this because obviously they want to capture potential buyers of their software to pester at a later date to buy but I'm not a potential buyer until I've tried it. So I'm another one that won't be handing over any money.

danieltillett 8y ago

It is quite possible that they have found that people who use disposable email accounts never buy anything. My company also blocks disposable email address because we found that people using them were just abusing our service and our sales went up after doing so. The funny thing is apart from emailing the free code we almost never contact anyone since we know 99% of our free users are not potential paying customers and so there is no point wasting our time on them. We only know this because they give us their real email address which allows us to screen them out.

dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
Maybe for some services that you can abuse blocking disposable addresses might make sense, but not for this one. In any case, I finally decided to register using a throwaway spambox from Gmail instead of Mailinator (what difference does it make, really...) and it turns out the Laravel Factory is inferior to Voyager as it doesn't support roles out of the box. Which is a pity as other things have been solved quite nicely. I'll give it a try in a few months, maybe they catch up.
- danieltillett 8y ago
  It is rather silly to block disposable addresses if you are going to allow free email services like gmail. In our case we block all free and disposable email address since nobody without a corporate or university email address uses our service (it is aimed at scientists). We used to let anyone use the service for free without registering for small scale use, but what we found were some commercial suppliers (our target market) were just telling their customers to use our free service rather than fork out the $0.02 it would have cost them to buy a license on assays they were selling for $10. Once cutoff from the ability to freeload, quite a number of these commercial suppliers decided to buy a license from us. The good thing about this is not only did we get the business, but their customers got the benefit of our service automatically.

laravelfactory 8y ago

We have removed the validation for disposable email addresses. Thank you for the feedback. Initially, we used it just to make sure that system is not misused but we understand your concern and accept it. We are also considering the roles part for authorization. Stay tuned. Thanks.