Reserve your favorite username in new startups

by ashwin_kumar • 12 years ago

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AlexanderZ• 12 years 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.

rockyita3• 12 years ago

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

djent• 12 years 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.

frnwtr4• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

Please don't send passwords via email. http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/devs

frnwtr4• 12 years ago

YEP ;) ... ofcourse ;)

rabbyte• 12 years ago

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

frnwtr4• 12 years 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• 12 years ago

Yeah whatever you have to do to trick investors, right?

"We got 5000 new users in the first hour!"

Terretta• 12 years ago

And for old startups:

http://namechk.com

http://claim.io/welcome

rweir2• 12 years ago

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

rockyita3• 12 years ago

yes, like all startups with a registration page that are not yet in beta :)

rweir2• 12 years 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.

Reserve your favorite username in new startups

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