Access to MVP after registration?
My project https://www.indiehackers.com/product/widgeton is being built in public. It is a tool for web developers.
I'm just at the beginning of my journey and the first version is yet to be released.
I want to share it on my website in the next few days.
I wonder whether to make the alpha version available to the public without registration or only for registered users.
Registration pros:
- Building a mailing database (currently I don't have it at all)
- If the user provides his email address, it means that he is potentially interested in the product
Registration cons:
- Requiring registration can discourage users and in the worst case, I might not get any feedback
- More work to be done in the beginning - support for user registration and login
Would you register yourself to test a not yet finished product for free, if it could be useful to you and if you could influence its development?
Or maybe it's better to provide a demo without registration, but only ask the user to subscribe to the newsletter?
Do you have any experience in this topic?
I will be grateful for your opinions.
You can do it like Typeform: Allow users to work with all functions but when they want to save their results, ask for the email “so that you can login agsin next time and find your work”.
Thank you, I'didnt think about it.
I will see if it fits into my solution.
Depending on what you MVP offers, I would consider registration for sure.
Also, what about to allow demo without registration and just ask during the demo for email (no need for the full registration)? It can be on an optional basis.
Thanks.
I think that I will allow demo without registration, and ask for email during demo.
My project is code builder (it produces downloadable bundle).
So in next step I will try to add registration as a necessary step to download the generated code as Mattes3 advised.
Additionally i want to add feature request list directly to product (for now without registration).
What do you think is this a good idea?