Re:Rate my startup: Invoice.ly - no bull* invoicing
by jasonkester on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @07:18AM
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Please ignore this if you're building anything for regular people.
OpenID is confusing and painful to the end user, and you'll lose a significant fraction of your potential userbase if you don't let them sign up for an account with their familiar username/password.
There's only one OpenID site that's valuable enough to me to jump through the constant hoops required to setup & maintain an OpenID account, and that's StackOverflow. So unless your thing is obviously going to be more valuable to me than SO, you won't get my signup if you force me to use OpenID.
OpenID is confusing and painful to the end user, and you'll lose a significant fraction of your potential userbase if you don't let them sign up for an account with their familiar username/password.
There's only one OpenID site that's valuable enough to me to jump through the constant hoops required to setup & maintain an OpenID account, and that's StackOverflow. So unless your thing is obviously going to be more valuable to me than SO, you won't get my signup if you force me to use OpenID.