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Hey, this is one of the founders. App not a website for now for a variety of reasons: 1. Personalization is key to what we do and people are more comfortable signing in to something on mobile 2. The mobile use case encourages us to keep the feature set small and useful - on web it's easy to keep adding features 3. Mobile still more of an open playing field at this point I'm not sure all these reasons are the best reasons, but we had to build some way and this is just a start. We'll definitely have a web component down the line.

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Just wanted to say you guys need to focus on removing the facebook login requirement before anyone in this community will take it serious.

It's in the pipeline :)

Just to give a difference of opinion, I don't think that this is necessarily representative of the entire HN community. I for one maintain a FB account almost exclusively for apps like this, so that I can reuse my social graph.

Disclaimer: I've done work in the past with one of the founders on a former iteration of this product.

I would have never tried this app if I didn't have a throwaway FB account.

Yours is not a bad idea, having a separate account, but I think that the number of people that have one is definately a minority respect the people that will just ditch the app because of it, worse, on mobile they will leave a bad review.

1. Are you sure people are more comfortable signing in on mobile? I'm not - I think twice as hard about letting people access a device that knows where I am. More important, have you done research into whether your target customer would sign in with mobile? I might buy a game or try a new app, but I rarely make any significant purchase on mobile.

2. I don't think you need to restrict yourself in order to constrain yourselves as long as you consider features in a "will this work well on mobile" mindset.

3. I disagree that mobile is a more open playing field. What exactly is your barrier with a browser on my computer vs. a browser on my smaller (phone) computer? Perhaps I misunderstand, but this doesn't make any sense to me.

Glad to hear you'll be adding a web component. As I mentioned elsewhere, I'd also suggest you allow users to try the thing before requiring them to download and login - especially with Facebook, but even without. Service sites like Zillow generally do this well.

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