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Their signup process threw me for a loop. You just click into the dashboard, then fill in a name and password later. It looks like just visiting the front page

Their signup process threw me for a loop. You just click into the dashboard, then fill in a name and password later. It looks like just visiting the front page gives you an account, because the sample code is already using some generated API tokens. I've considered doing something similar for my own side project, but went with the more standard sign up because I was worried it would be confusing (as it was to me, for a few minutes). Do you guys think this is becoming more mainstream, at least amongst developers and the tech-savvy, that other projects could get away with this? I'm curious how many support requests Stripe gets because of this. Edited to add: How does this work for the non-logged-in state? I already have an account, and the browser cookie expires (or manually delete the cookies). I'll go to the dashboard, and be logged in as "anonymous", and have to sign out and sign in again as the right user. Seems like an extra incongruous step.

boucher 15y ago
Yeah, it does sometimes confuse people. This is something we're considering about changing (the flow worked differently when we were invite only), but we thought it was worth experimenting with a little longer. Mostly, I think it depends on the type of app you have. For something like 280 Slides (a previous project I worked on), it makes a lot of sense to get started right away without having to sign up. We'll see how things go for Stripe.
- monological 15y ago
  This is extremely confusing. Thought it was just a test account. Left depressed because I couldn't sign up.
  - axx 15y ago
    yep, i thought the same.
grah4 15y ago
fwiw, that design pattern is called lazy registration.
sudonim 15y ago
Agreed. I figured out that setting my username and password and clicking saved seemed to work. Even if I'm not going to add all my info now, I like creating my account to come back to. It felt like I could do everything but that.

boucher 15y ago

Yeah, it does sometimes confuse people. This is something we're considering about changing (the flow worked differently when we were invite only), but we thought it was worth experimenting with a little longer. Mostly, I think it depends on the type of app you have. For something like 280 Slides (a previous project I worked on), it makes a lot of sense to get started right away without having to sign up. We'll see how things go for Stripe.

monological 15y ago
This is extremely confusing. Thought it was just a test account. Left depressed because I couldn't sign up.
- axx 15y ago
  yep, i thought the same.

grah4 15y ago

fwiw, that design pattern is called lazy registration.

sudonim 15y ago

Agreed. I figured out that setting my username and password and clicking saved seemed to work. Even if I'm not going to add all my info now, I like creating my account to come back to. It felt like I could do everything but that.