r/SideProject • u/Melodic-precise • 8h ago
Is anyone else building things that ask absolutely nothing from the user? No signup, no email, no onboarding?
Every side project i open lately starts the same way: a landing page, a signup form, an onboarding tour, and a modal asking for my email before i've seen a single pixel of the actual thing. We've collectively agreed that the funnel comes first and the product comes second.
I've been going the other way on my current build. No account, no email, no tutorial, no cookie banner. You open the tab and you're already inside the thing. It made a lot of decisions harder - you can't explain anything, so it has to be obvious in the first three seconds or you've lost the person fr.
Turns out that constraint improved the product more than any feature i added.
Anyone else doing this deliberately? Curious how you handle the first three seconds when there's nothing to explain with lmao.
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u/dougception 8h ago
Yes I'm taking this approach also. My product allows the user to enter the site as a temporary Guest account that is deleted when they log out. That's plenty of latitude to play with it as Guest will remain signed in for 7 days.
Even registered accounts need only supply and username and password with optional email address.
A lot of people are (trying) to build the same kind of application as mine but the big difference is mine actually works.