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I'm feeling a bit thick. Regarding the change to the sign-up process... Originally: > Users couldn’t get started on their own. They had to first leave their e

I'm feeling a bit thick. Regarding the change to the sign-up process... Originally: > Users couldn’t get started on their own. They had to first leave their email address and then wait for me to send them an email with a link allowing them to register and start building their Cortado email. Afterly: > As soon as users click the submit button, they get an email verification message in their inbox, which they can click on to set a password and get started. So, what changed? In both cases users have to submit their email address and interact with a(n) (automated?) registration/sign-up email. In the second case there's the added hurdle of a captcha (which sounds worse).

renewiltord 6y ago
Manual vs auto approval.
jstanley 6y ago
The second case is immediate, so the user can do it as a single mental session.
zomglings 6y ago
With the first process, they would leave an e-mail and then author would reach out to them maybe a few days later and maybe a few weeks later telling them they could sign up. With the new process, they go through the signup process immediately.
- fuzzybear3965 6y ago
  Oh, "wait for me" doesn't refer to an automatically-generated signup email ("me" is not "server I provisioned"). "wait for me" literally means "wait for human to create email and send it to new user". Wow, yeah. That doesn't seem good.
  - zomglings 6y ago
    It's not that bad, actually. When a product is really early - still being developed, basically - you want to control the number of users you expose to it. Every batch of users will improve the product but it is unlikely that users will stick around beyond one or two uses. So you drip it out to users in small batches, and "wait for me" really lends itself well to this.