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Reserve your favorite username in new startups

6 points by ashwin_kumar 12y ago

AlexanderZ 12y ago
Interesting idea. Would love to specify the categories of startups I'm interested when I sign up. This way your startups can also get only interested people.
- rockyita 12y ago
  Feedback noted, thanks a lot AlexanderZ! Were planning on it, been asked by more than a few this feature :)
djent 12y ago
Would prefer that instead of entering in your password (hack me please), it generated a random password for you, and then securely sent it to the given email address.
- frnwtr 12y ago
  sorry for late replies guys, we got low karma and can't reply as often/fast as we'd like. thanks for the feedback/input. would reduce signup friction too, nice!
- omervk 12y ago
  Please don't send passwords via email. http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/devs http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/devs
  - frnwtr 12y ago
    YEP ;) ... ofcourse ;)
rabbyte 12y ago
Does this do a disservice to startups by inflating their user count?
- frnwtr 12y ago
  sorry for late replies guys, we got low karma and can't reply as often/fast as we'd like. We got some countermeasures planned to avoid inflating user numbers. Kind of been feed to us by interested startups :)
  - ddw 12y ago
    Yeah whatever you have to do to trick investors, right? "We got 5000 new users in the first hour!"
    - frnwtr 12y ago
      ROTFL ... no... The reason is on the "about us" link on the site ;). we needed it, couldn't find it, so we we started working on it and launched a landing to test if this pain was only ours. apparently it's not. Posted it in a few italian startup groups and shared it with a few friends. It went by itself from there, we found ourselves on product hunt, than here in HN...it just...happened :)
Terretta 12y ago
And for old startups: http://namechk.com http://namechk.com http://claim.io/welcome http://claim.io/welcome
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rweir 12y ago
would it be fair to say that your site currently does absolutely nothing except for take usernames, email addresses and passwords?
- rockyita 12y ago
  yes, like all startups with a registration page that are not yet in beta :)
  - rweir 12y ago
    perhaps state that on the signup page, so people don't bother, then? there are identical sites that actually exist already, so why would anyone be interested in signing up here? edit: to be clear, I mean: there isn't value in "testing a market" when the market is already tested.
    - rockyita 12y ago
      as this is focused on a slightly different segment with different "users" than what's already out there (established startups and companies vs new startups), we figured we test the market and get some feedbacks from both side of the market to test if it's needed/wanted and how it should function based on both side's wants, needs and objectives. It has proven very useful to define beta features as well as to help us develop a vision around it

6 points by ashwin_kumar 12y ago

Interesting idea. Would love to specify the categories of startups I'm interested when I sign up. This way your startups can also get only interested people.

rockyita 12y ago
Feedback noted, thanks a lot AlexanderZ! Were planning on it, been asked by more than a few this feature :)

djent 12y ago

Would prefer that instead of entering in your password (hack me please), it generated a random password for you, and then securely sent it to the given email address.

frnwtr 12y ago
sorry for late replies guys, we got low karma and can't reply as often/fast as we'd like. thanks for the feedback/input. would reduce signup friction too, nice!
omervk 12y ago
Please don't send passwords via email. http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/devs http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/devs
- frnwtr 12y ago
  YEP ;) ... ofcourse ;)

rabbyte 12y ago

Does this do a disservice to startups by inflating their user count?

frnwtr 12y ago
sorry for late replies guys, we got low karma and can't reply as often/fast as we'd like. We got some countermeasures planned to avoid inflating user numbers. Kind of been feed to us by interested startups :)
- ddw 12y ago
  Yeah whatever you have to do to trick investors, right? "We got 5000 new users in the first hour!"
  - frnwtr 12y ago
    ROTFL ... no... The reason is on the "about us" link on the site ;). we needed it, couldn't find it, so we we started working on it and launched a landing to test if this pain was only ours. apparently it's not. Posted it in a few italian startup groups and shared it with a few friends. It went by itself from there, we found ourselves on product hunt, than here in HN...it just...happened :)

Terretta 12y ago

And for old startups: http://namechk.com http://namechk.com http://claim.io/welcome http://claim.io/welcome

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rweir 12y ago

would it be fair to say that your site currently does absolutely nothing except for take usernames, email addresses and passwords?

rockyita 12y ago
yes, like all startups with a registration page that are not yet in beta :)
- rweir 12y ago
  perhaps state that on the signup page, so people don't bother, then? there are identical sites that actually exist already, so why would anyone be interested in signing up here? edit: to be clear, I mean: there isn't value in "testing a market" when the market is already tested.
  - rockyita 12y ago
    as this is focused on a slightly different segment with different "users" than what's already out there (established startups and companies vs new startups), we figured we test the market and get some feedbacks from both side of the market to test if it's needed/wanted and how it should function based on both side's wants, needs and objectives. It has proven very useful to define beta features as well as to help us develop a vision around it