Just adding a static website with screenshots of the product will be a great upgrade for users who are interested to learn more before signing in.

Also login over a VPN unless you want your IP leaked to everyone else

For anyone else trying this, the password is hackernews - without an exclamation point. Tripped me up.

Thanks for setting this up adenta!

> I didn't add any restrictions on email registration […] Exposing web services to the public internet without auth seems scary

Aren’t you still effectively doing that, though?

This seems like the combination of two downsides: Bots will be able to perform email verification if they want to; honest users will still be deterred.

great point-

bot protection is enabled in clerk, where email registration is not.

but also the chat function doesn't do anything unless you supply an email. Seriously without your post text here it's literally impossible to figure out what your site does exactly pre-account creation