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I do like to share links @ work, so sounds like I'm the target audience. But this is a near empty landing page, asking for my e-mail with almost no information about what the product is or how it works.

It would be nice to get a little more information. Screenshots, descriptions, pricing ... anything. Why would I want to just blindly sign up for something based on one sentence & 3 bullet points?

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I perfectly agree with this. Frankly, who knows if the page is a phishing page targeted to HN users?

I never want to blindly sign up for anything when there is absolutely no information/demo in the first page.

I blame the Lean Startup/Indiehackers mentality of validating, validating, validating before building anything. I mean, I get where they're coming from but it really hard to distinguish it from phisihing attacks.

Does it ask your HN (or any other) credentials? How would it be a phishing attack then?

First step of sign up requires an email. Second sep verifies the email is active. Third asks you to set a password. They could be harvesting credentials and reverting on password reuse.

Isn’t reasonable to expect that a tool made to send you email newsletters requires you to give them and verify your email address?

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