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Re:Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info by pc86 on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:57AM (#21844109)
So against my better judgment I signed up and shared information. Now that you have my data, not only is my account is in a "pending" status, but I can't log in because I get an (obviously incorrect) error that the user doesn't exist.

Pretty godawful experience from the start, since the only reason I added my information was to see if there was anything relevant since I do not live or work in a tech hub (quite the opposite).

Edit: And it seems like you need to search for companies in order to see them. Browsing companies to see if I recognize any in my area would be a good feature.

Re:Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info by waterlink on Friday December 20, 2019 @11:06AM (#21845121)
The user account does not exist yet for pending registrations. It gets created only when registration is accepted.

Also, if rejected registration is not updated with correct info in 1 week, it gets automatically deleted. This data does not become part of the information that other users can see.

> Browsing companies to see if I recognize any in my area would be a good feature.

You are not the first asking for that today. I’ll implement this feature for the next release.

> the only reason I added my information was to see if there was anything relevant

That also screams like a missing feature for me. I could allow people to browse companies (by location) and show masked data until they sign up and share their own entry.

Re:Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info by waterlink on Thursday December 26, 2019 @08:30AM (#21883628)
1. I have implemented the company browsing feature

2. I have made it available without signup/login (partially—you’ll see companies/locations and how many entries they have each, and be able to navigate to these company pages, but from there to see numbers, you’d need to signup/login).