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Why don't people who donated to app.net at least get an account to use the service? They paid $50 and they don't even get an account? In a way, by paying $50 or more, they are committing themselves to pay an unknown, perhaps greater amount to actually use app.net.

$50 is a lot of money. Why don't funders get an account?

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> Why don't people who donated to app.net at least get an account to use the service?

What do you mean? I paid the $50 and now I have an account.

There was an email a week or so ago talking about the launch of Alpha which said to let them know if you want to log in. I replied saying I backed them and would like to log in, and they set me up.

Maybe that was a one-off thing? In any case, it's pretty slick and I'm happy to be on it.

As the site says, the $50 is pre-paying for an account.

Am I reading it incorrectly? It says, "You'll be committing to prepaying for a full year of 'member-level' service."

That doesn't sound like, "You get a year of service."

Its assumed that thats what it means. I think a lot of people would be asking for a refund if we were wrong though.

Are you sure? Can somebody confirm this?

You pay $50. Email them asking for alpha access. They give you the account.

$100+ accounts are for developers & access to APIs.

They do. If you've donated you just have to ask for access to the alpha.

They're pretty snappy at responding too. They took less than five hours to activate me on Sunday.

I have an account. It was setup in under 10 minutes.

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