Behavior like that is why I always give out https://www.mailinator.com/ addresses instead. Or one of the infinite number of alternatives that aren't blocked on site X.

[co-founder of Cape here]

We're already in beta! But since our system involves physical drones located in the real world, we have limited supply of available flights. We currently load balance the demand from our users by having a waitlist from which we whitelist folks on a weekly basis, and a queueing system when all of the drones in our fleet are simultaneously in the air.

It will be awesome if you mention this just before asking new users to login with google/facebook.

Fake "actions" on web sites, used to gauge interest, are disrespectful, and quite simply a jerk move. Just like those "sign up for our spam" pop-overs. There are enough things broken on the web without intentionally adding to them. Please don't be a jerk.

I agree, this is a dark pattern.

Stopped me from signing up. It's a bit deceptive to say "Fly Now" only to, well, not be able to. I also refuse to log in with Facebook or Google.

Looks cool though...

I wish I have read this comment earlier. Clicked 'Fly Now'. Logged in using my google account and got presented with two huge textboxes. I felt cheated there :D then closed after few seconds.

That's true but for me, I signed up perhaps a month ago and was given access to fly just a few days later IIRC. It works really well and is a huge amount of fun.