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Ask HN: How to streamline private beta email signup for age-verified app?
Hi HNers,
I'm getting close to putting up a landing page for a pre-release game I'm working on. I want to allow people to enter their e-mail address to be notified of the private beta. The complication is that the eventual game will need to be age-verified. E.g. the landing page won't have nudity, but the game will.
So, how do I create a streamlined landing page where interested people can provide an e-mail address, without forcing them to first click through a bunch of legalese and age verification?
I'm assuming that some people who would provide their e-mail addresses (without knowing the product's adult themes) would be surprised and annoyed to then get an e-mail with links to an adult game. I don't want to be a jerk.
Finally, I don't want to create the impression that I'm advertising the game to minors, for whom it's not intended.
So, how to balance simplicity, with non-douchebaggery?