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Interesting!

I get blocked on the phone number screen on sign up.

This has two issues:

1) It seems to require a US phone number (555-555-5555)? 2) Ideally I don't want to share my phone number at all. It says it is for finding friends, but I think many people don't want to share their phone number this lightly.

The app also tries to get access to my contact list - not ideal for just trying something out :)

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Thanks! We are currently working on enabling international sign ups. Regarding the contact list and sharing your phone number, we wanted to make the app so you could interact with your friends courses as well. Sharing your contacts is also skippable. If it seems like users aren't using any features that would make interacting with users helpful, then we'll definitely remove requesting phone numbers in onboarding.

OK, I'll keep an eye on this thread to see when I can try the app without this requirement!

Would people not be able to share their courses via a url?

Anyway, I don't want to sound negative here, good luck!

Yes we have the ability to share courses via a url. No worries. Appreciate the feedback.

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