Author, I'll tell you what the #1 barrier for me to sign up for anything is going to be... I'm probably going to get spammed if I do. Because I have to implici

Author, I'll tell you what the #1 barrier for me to sign up for anything is going to be... I'm probably going to get spammed if I do. Because I have to implicitly provide email or social network details, and then I'm inviting myself to be hounded with email newsletters or asked to like your posts, whatever. Even worse, if your company isn't doing so hot in 3 months, you may decide to sell your contact list to a 3rd party. Your privacy policy for information I provide you may allow for this in a weasel-worded paragraph legal suggested you add somewhere buried in there that I don't care to read, even if that was never your intention. I invite myself to be bothered by your business (or others) in this way, in perpetuity, in exchange for a service that I'm not sure is even worth the annoyance yet. Again, I'm not even sure if I should bother reading through all your FAQs yet, let alone any EULAs. This is a difficult value proposition. Is there some way that a startup can convince me that they will not treat me as a commodity to be sucked up and spat out, but instead a precious potential partner to hold closely and want to serve in exchange for money and/or feedback? Can you word that into your TOS or EULAs to let us know that you are committed to not jerking me around? That's what I want before I sign up. Call it "Sign up", "Try it free", "First Hit's On the House", wording is irrelevant. I'm looking for a commitment and some kind of indicator that the risk to my already at-limit information overload is low. Oh and for the love of god, please don't make me install another fucking app if you could just as easily do the job with a web page that looks good in mobile chrome or safari. It's insulting.