Well, if the social login prevents him from signing up, he obviously can't even try the product. So how could he have any comments about the product itself, whe

Well, if the social login prevents him from signing up, he obviously can't even try the product. So how could he have any comments about the product itself, whether positive or negative? Here's a less blunt version of @sixQuarks's complaint, which I think is completely valid: Poetica has unnecessary friction in the signup process, and the very existence of this friction implies that the founders might not have thought long & hard about what kind of users they want to attract. IMO, people who write a lot and use Markdown to do so are more likely than the general public to be concerned about the privacy implications of social login and therefore wish to avoid it. Poetica also seems like the kind of product that could benefit from a quick online demo right on the landing page, but the founders chose to require signup first. Both of these factors are surely detrimental to their conversion rate.