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Re:Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports ... by euphemize on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @02:02PM (#8233621)
Downloaded the app, first screens look good. I would definitely use something like this, living near a huge park in a big city, and being very active. However:

- I don't have Facebook, how do I create an account?

- Do you really, really need accounts at all? And if you do, can't you at least just show me activities happening around me, and let me sign up later?

I'd love to give more feedback but I'm stuck outside your app.

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Re:Show HN: Sporty – An app for creating and joining sports ... by matmik on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @02:35PM (#8233877)
Really sorry about that! We knew Facebook would put some people off, but it did two things for us; - We could outsource our login system - As we're going to have a chicken and egg problem, we wanted this to be really great with your existing facebook graph, so that people will be auto friends etc.

Will absolutely implement self login and twitter connect in future updates.

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