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If your target audience is HN users, consider this comment. However, I've found in my analytics that most users don't care about the type of login. You can't please everyone. If a website has only username and password, there's a complaint. If a website only has OAuth, there's a complaint.
why not both?
Why do I have to create a new account for this site? I have Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc; consider using one of those site and OAuth to provide a more frictionless experience for first-time users, especially considering your site requires me to come back X days later to really see it work. My $0.02...
Here's a business case for how this could be useful and why I'm going to try it. I operate a string of ~60 local businesses that have physical storefronts. On average each store has 5 local competitors. Our customers are VERY price sensitive - they will almost always call the "lowest price" guy in the area first. As a result we currently have a duct-tape system to monitor competitor pricing and tweak ours as fast as…
What happens if your competitors also use the same service, would the algos recursively spiral downward?
Here's a business case for how this could be useful and why I'm going to try it. I operate a string of ~60 local businesses that have physical storefronts. On average each store has 5 local competitors. Our customers are VERY price sensitive - they will almost always call the "lowest price" guy in the area first. As a result we currently have a duct-tape system to monitor competitor pricing and tweak ours as fast as…
[Edit: related link, which was the inspiration for my question: http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-to-get-gmailcom-b...]
Smells like Shopify!
Why do I have to create a new account for this site? I have Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc; consider using one of those site and OAuth to provide a more frictionless experience for first-time users, especially considering your site requires me to come back X days later to really see it work. My $0.02...