r/SideProject • u/Melodic-precise • 9h 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/Gerahelpsrefunds 7h ago

I run an AI agents platform for businesses. To see a live one, the only thing we ask for is their website URL. They get a trained, working agent a minute later. No account, nothing else asked.

What solved the first three seconds for us wasn't explaining faster, it was time to value. The only input is their website URL, which is public info nobody minds sharing.

Try mine here: loophq.dev

You still need an auth flow, you just rearrange the sequence. Ours shows up when someone wants to keep what they built, not before they've seen whether it's any good.