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Ugh fine I’ll take the bait. If you all don’t want to create an account, don’t expect to try anyone’s products! It doesn’t even make sense from a software persp
by jacobsimon 4y ago
Ugh fine I’ll take the bait. If you all don’t want to create an account, don’t expect to try anyone’s products! It doesn’t even make sense from a software perspective: A spreadsheet needs to belong to a user. You can’t edit a google doc or sheet without being logged in. Sure, they could create a sandbox demo of their product that works without an account, but that’s kind of an unreasonable feature expectation to thrust onto every website.
- discordianfish 4y ago"Sign up to save" is a quite common pattern these days and what I would suggest they are doing here as well.
- znt 4y agoJupyter online test page, no login: https://jupyter.org/try-jupyter/retro/notebooks/?path=notebooks/Intro.ipynb https://jupyter.org/try-jupyter/retro/notebooks/?path=notebo... Online python REPL, no login: https://replit.com/languages/python3 https://replit.com/languages/python3 Another generic online REPL service, with pandas example, no login: https://onecompiler.com/python/3x7an28pr https://onecompiler.com/python/3x7an28pr ReactJS online playground, no login: https://playcode.io/react https://playcode.io/react
- MaxPengwing 4y agoYou can still read the tutorial without getting a Google Account, and that can be more than enough to get a feel for the product. At least enough to decide if you want to get a test account. Here the Tutorial is Login Gated. That's just going to turn people who are curious and have 2-3 min to look at it, away.
- metalliqaz 4y agoI already had a google account when it came time to try Google Docs. I'm not going to make a new account somewhere just to demo what they offer. I have to be convinced before I enter my personal info