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This is the classic example of a site that should not have any form of registration to try it out. How about a big "try it" button, or better still a calendar

This is the classic example of a site that should not have any form of registration to try it out. How about a big "try it" button, or better still a calendar on the homepage where you can click a single date and it will get you started. I mean that's all the input you need, right? Why force people to enter their email address twice just to see what one of these calendars would look like. Once a user has had a chance to try it out and decide it's cool, offer a "save" button that prompts for an email and password in a lightbox.

antirez 17y ago
Ok we must definitely do this. Thanks a lot!
prawn 17y ago
jasonkester, that was my first thought also. Instead, show a sample calendar and have the first form or clicks generate an account with a random-character string that can be bookmarked (long enough so as to be difficult to guess). From there, tie all data to that unique string. The info, save for personal commentary, is of a private nature but unexciting enough that you can possibly escape login-based security. Alternatively, you could offer password protection as an optional thing. IMO, if it's possible to avoid a login wall, I think it's worth considering.
huhtenberg 17y ago
Perhaps it's just me and feel free to disagree, but this is a classic example of a site that should have not existed in the first place. It solves a problem that doesn't exist and it does it in a way that is inherently more complex than it needs to be. I cannot think of any woman I know that would even considered using this. It's like a fridge that orders a milk for you - cool, but useless. Perhaps, maybe, if it were a part of a specialized established women's site, then it would get some traction, but only as a smaller feature of comprehensive set of services catering to, say, women trying to get pregnant.
- yummyfajitas 17y ago
  In general you are correct, but some women need/want to monitor their cycles. Consider a woman with a noisy cycle (28 days +/- 5) or with a mean different from 28 days (29 days +/- 2). Such a woman may become nervous about pregnancy on a regular basis: "I'm 2 days late, and my flawed human memory doesn't tell me that this occurs 30% of the time for me. Oh shit, am I pregnant?!?" The service can remind her that this is normal. It's also useful for women with regularity problems (a detailed timeseries would be useful to show to the doctor), or women trying to get pregnant (not always as easy as condom ads suggest). Also, consider that you may know women who need this service, but they may not discuss the need with you.
  - huhtenberg 17y ago
    Women with irregular cycle will not rely on statistical analysis to try and get pregnant. They will go and buy a basal thermometer or an ovulation test kit instead. The "oh, shit, I am pregnant" use case is laughable. Again, the pregnancy testing kit is far more accurate than the statistical analysis and it can be used few days before the first day of the period. No service can do that. The only case where stat analysis of the cycle is applicable is for people who do not or cannot use contraceptives and do not want to end up being pregnant. This is a negligibly small group as is, and I suspect that its subset of Web 2.0 aficionados is going to be close to zero.
    - yummyfajitas 17y ago
      The "oh shit, am I pregnant" case saves women the trouble/worry/expense of using a pregnancy test. Similarly, basal thermometers/ovulation test kits are expensive and annoying. This service occupies the space between "just hope for the best" and "go to the drug store and start worrying." Incidentally, while a pregnancy test will tell a woman if she is pregnant before the period, she has no reason to worry until a day after it should have arrived (ignoring condom failure). Why would any woman use a simple and easy cycle tracking service when better methods are available at the drug store? For the same reason you might google someone rather than paying $50 for a background check.
- 17y ago

antirez 17y ago

Ok we must definitely do this. Thanks a lot!

prawn 17y ago

jasonkester, that was my first thought also. Instead, show a sample calendar and have the first form or clicks generate an account with a random-character string that can be bookmarked (long enough so as to be difficult to guess). From there, tie all data to that unique string. The info, save for personal commentary, is of a private nature but unexciting enough that you can possibly escape login-based security. Alternatively, you could offer password protection as an optional thing. IMO, if it's possible to avoid a login wall, I think it's worth considering.

huhtenberg 17y ago

Perhaps it's just me and feel free to disagree, but this is a classic example of a site that should have not existed in the first place. It solves a problem that doesn't exist and it does it in a way that is inherently more complex than it needs to be. I cannot think of any woman I know that would even considered using this. It's like a fridge that orders a milk for you - cool, but useless. Perhaps, maybe, if it were a part of a specialized established women's site, then it would get some traction, but only as a smaller feature of comprehensive set of services catering to, say, women trying to get pregnant.

yummyfajitas 17y ago
In general you are correct, but some women need/want to monitor their cycles. Consider a woman with a noisy cycle (28 days +/- 5) or with a mean different from 28 days (29 days +/- 2). Such a woman may become nervous about pregnancy on a regular basis: "I'm 2 days late, and my flawed human memory doesn't tell me that this occurs 30% of the time for me. Oh shit, am I pregnant?!?" The service can remind her that this is normal. It's also useful for women with regularity problems (a detailed timeseries would be useful to show to the doctor), or women trying to get pregnant (not always as easy as condom ads suggest). Also, consider that you may know women who need this service, but they may not discuss the need with you.
- huhtenberg 17y ago
  Women with irregular cycle will not rely on statistical analysis to try and get pregnant. They will go and buy a basal thermometer or an ovulation test kit instead. The "oh, shit, I am pregnant" use case is laughable. Again, the pregnancy testing kit is far more accurate than the statistical analysis and it can be used few days before the first day of the period. No service can do that. The only case where stat analysis of the cycle is applicable is for people who do not or cannot use contraceptives and do not want to end up being pregnant. This is a negligibly small group as is, and I suspect that its subset of Web 2.0 aficionados is going to be close to zero.
  - yummyfajitas 17y ago
    The "oh shit, am I pregnant" case saves women the trouble/worry/expense of using a pregnancy test. Similarly, basal thermometers/ovulation test kits are expensive and annoying. This service occupies the space between "just hope for the best" and "go to the drug store and start worrying." Incidentally, while a pregnancy test will tell a woman if she is pregnant before the period, she has no reason to worry until a day after it should have arrived (ignoring condom failure). Why would any woman use a simple and easy cycle tracking service when better methods are available at the drug store? For the same reason you might google someone rather than paying $50 for a background check.
17y ago