I like harsh feedback and want to hear it
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If you have two minutes: make one snipplet, then tell me where you almost gave up. What was confusing, what looked bad, what would stop you from coming back.
Yes, you have to make an account first... that's one of the things I want roasted.
Genuinely want the brutal version. I can't fix what people are too polite to say.🫡
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taking you at your word, so here is the account gate, roasted.
it is the right thing to be worried about, but not for the reason people usually give. it is not that a signup is annoying. it is that it is uninformative. everyone who bounces at the gate leaves you nothing, and they are the exact group whose opinion you are asking for here.
the version i would try is to let the first snipplet be made with no account at all, and move the signup to the moment someone tries to save or share it. you keep the same conversion event. what you gain is a number you cannot get today, which is how many people made one and then decided it was not worth keeping. that number is the actual review of the product. right now you cannot see it, because those people never got in.
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@rabnoor_s This is the best version of that critique I've gotten. Thanks for that! You're absolutely right that the real cost is that everyone who bounces leaves me nothing, and they're exactly the people I'm asking.
It's honestly been top of my list for a while and I've gone back and forth on it. Mostly the handoff: someone makes one signed out, then signs up, and if that transfer breaks even occasionally they lose work, which is worse than the gate. That's what's kept stalling me without even building it.
But the number you're describing with how many people made one and decided not to keep it is the thing I can't see at all right now. That's a good enough reason. Moving it up on the to-do list.
Thanks again for actually taking the time to word it properly!
the handoff is cheaper than it looks, and it is a solved problem. mint a random guest id in local storage on the first action, write the snipplet against it, and on signup reassign every row carrying that id to the new account. one column and one update.
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@rabnoor_s I agree, thanks for the suggestion! Will keep you updated on when it's live!