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Agreed. I didn't get passed the homepage. 1. Why not have an anonymous demo page to play around with before asking us to sign up? 2. Why not have a big "Log i
by joeljkp 16y ago
Agreed. I didn't get passed the homepage.
1. Why not have an anonymous demo page to play around with before asking us to sign up?
2. Why not have a big "Log in with OpenID" button so people can just link in with Google/whatever?
- colinplamondon 16y agoPeople use OpenID? EDIT: I know people 'Login with Google' and 'Connect with Twitter', but I don't know anyone who dives at 'Login with OpenID'.
- anigbrowl 16y agoIt's not like we are offered the option very often.
- zcid 16y agoGoogle is an OpenID. http://openid.net/get-an-openid/ http://openid.net/get-an-openid/
- eof 16y agoI used it for signing up with stackoverflow and tend to use it when I begrudgingly sign up for something, if it's an option.
- jessep 16y agoWe'll set up Facebook Connect for those that don't want to register directly. Reason we don't have anonymous demo page yet is that it would take significant work to get the data to port to your actual account if you choose to sign up. It'd be a bad thing for someone to spend 10 minutes entering data into the demo and then lose it on signing up. We actually had that before and it was a problem. We want to do this, but for purposes of launching more quickly we haven't done it yet.
- CognitiveLens 16y agoOne compromise would be to have the instructions/intro entered into a demo page that people could interact with but not save - it would encourage exploration of the interface without encouraging/requiring people to enter their own info. TaskPaper for Mac does something like this in an appealing way, and has almost the same interface as WorkFlowy.
- jessep 16y agoYeah, that's a good idea. We messed around with that, but didn't quite get it right. People got too engrossed in that and never really got around to creating their own stuff. The jury is out on it, though. We're definitely not happy with our onboarding process as it currently stands.
- haploid 16y agoWhy would anyone using a demo page be under the illusion that they would be able to save their data? To wit: It's a demo page. I agree with the above sentiment that not offering a means of trying the product out before registering is a blocker for many, many people( myself included ).
- jessep 16y agoOne bit of data: seems like we've had a conversion rate approaching 50%, so we're definitely doing well.