Nice start, but perhaps Magic can also suggest the user's password by searching for their email address in a database of known password leaks.
Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
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Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#52Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#53So now I can find out the first and last name of the owner of whatever email I punch in there?
If it's the primary email on their account, you already can with Gravatar. https://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/profiles/
Only if they choose to supply that information to Gravatar in the first place. Magic is not giving people the opt-in option, it's just opting you in whether you like it or not.
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#54Nice start, but perhaps Magic can also suggest the user's password by searching for their email address in a database of known password leaks.
Best feature suggestion ever. But what would be cool is to do that, but instead of pre-fill in their password, notify them that they are using a password that is known to have been a previously leaked password of theirs.
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#55Presumably, they have some preexisting database that maps email addresses to personal information. Their Privacy page, however, is not transparent how exactly they got this data: > Broadly speaking, we collect information in three ways: (1) when you provide it directly to us, (2) when we obtain information about you or your company through trusted third parties or indexing systems, and (3) passively through technolog…
Maybe clearbit? Which you can opt out of here: https://claim.clearbit.com/claim I did this a few weeks ago and magic signup does not work for my email address.
https://www.fullcontact.com/privacy/ If it's coming through our FullContact Person API, you can claim your profile or opt out here.
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#56Say what you will about Dustin Curtis, but everything he makes is just so nicely designed and enjoyable to use.
I'm curious about the pricing model: $20/mo for 2,000 requests. I wonder if you still pay for the request if it returns a non 200 or if their API can't find a name.
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#57I don't understand what's the value of exposing this autofilled data to the user. Why not just do it on the server-side?
What if the data is wrong? What if it prefilled in a username I didn't want to choose?
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#58thats creepy, what if i don't want to be on that database :/
If it's coming from FullContact Person API, you can opt out here: https://www.fullcontact.com/privacy/
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#59Not another Magic!
Cool feature though :)
Re: Magic – Completes signup forms automatically, with just an email address
#60On the plus side - The convenience factor is compelling, like auto-complete. - As a v1 you can see the true magic in a seamless signup. On the downside: - It does something unusual / unexpected / creepy. - It's too slow - noticeable lag vs. say the auto-suggest in search. - If accuracy is good why bother exposing that to the user? Intercom.io does this all in the backend off of email only registrations and seems to h…
> If accuracy is good why bother exposing that to the user?
That's a great point. A prior startup I worked at used a nice social referral tool, whose name slips my mind right now, but their backend would asynchronously pull Facebook, Twitter, etc. links for each of your customers. It was really convenient and worked for 80-90% from what I recall.