[vaporary]

I didn't even get three minutes; as soon as the page opened, I couldn't do anything without signing into Google or creating an account. Closed the tab.

[jacobsimon]

Ugh fine I’ll take the bait. If you all don’t want to create an account, don’t expect to try anyone’s products! It doesn’t even make sense from a software perspective: A spreadsheet needs to belong to a user. You can’t edit a google doc or sheet without being logged in. Sure, they could create a sandbox demo of their product that works without an account, but that’s kind of an unreasonable feature expectation to thrust onto every website.

[znt]

Jupyter online test page, no login: https://jupyter.org/try-jupyter/retro/notebooks/?path=notebo...

Online python REPL, no login: https://replit.com/languages/python3

Another generic online REPL service, with pandas example, no login: https://onecompiler.com/python/3x7an28pr

ReactJS online playground, no login: https://playcode.io/react

[discordianfish]

"Sign up to save" is a quite common pattern these days and what I would suggest they are doing here as well.

[metalliqaz]

I already had a google account when it came time to try Google Docs.

I'm not going to make a new account somewhere just to demo what they offer. I have to be convinced before I enter my personal info

[MaxPengwing]

You can still read the tutorial without getting a Google Account, and that can be more than enough to get a feel for the product. At least enough to decide if you want to get a test account.

Here the Tutorial is Login Gated. That's just going to turn people who are curious and have 2-3 min to look at it, away.

[ragnarsson]

Modern problems require modern solutions. I keep a separate gmail id just for this. Also I signed in using gmail and redirect didn't work in firefox.

[moneywoes]

Don’t studies show that you have to make users do something that requires friction to boost conversion? Otherwise they’re not valuable leads