One of the most common butthurt reactions to web services is the login barrier. Forcing people to create an account before they can use your product makes a lot of potential users say fuck it.
I was eating dinner with Jeff Atwood the other night, and even he gives up on a product that asks him to create an account. If technical users won't fill in three text boxes and click OK, what hope is there for the users that will actually click on ads?
To this end, we've removed the login barrier from Pressflip. Anyone can show up and create an interest without making a new account. We pushed this change out yesterday (with significant amounts of fail surrounding the deployment - sorry to all of you who won a 500 error), and the number of interests created has increased drastically in only 12 hours, as has the RSS usage.
Anyway, here are a few of the things I am following, and you can follow them too, without even giving us your e-mail address:
Yeah, I know that's shameless, but when we ask people "what are you interested in?", one of the commons responses is "uh, I dunno". I think the homepage copy needs a bit of reworking.
Haulin' ass, gettin' paid.
I was eating dinner with Jeff Atwood the other night, and even he gives up on a product that asks him to create an account. If technical users won't fill in three text boxes and click OK, what hope is there for the users that will actually click on ads?
To this end, we've removed the login barrier from Pressflip. Anyone can show up and create an interest without making a new account. We pushed this change out yesterday (with significant amounts of fail surrounding the deployment - sorry to all of you who won a 500 error), and the number of interests created has increased drastically in only 12 hours, as has the RSS usage.
Anyway, here are a few of the things I am following, and you can follow them too, without even giving us your e-mail address:
Yeah, I know that's shameless, but when we ask people "what are you interested in?", one of the commons responses is "uh, I dunno". I think the homepage copy needs a bit of reworking.
Haulin' ass, gettin' paid.
