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Show HN: Keep your customers informed and aware

12 pointsby missenlinxalmost 12 years ago

5 comments

halostatuealmost 12 years ago
Just tried signing up and I&#x27;m in a stuck position.<p>• I generate very long passwords (50 characters by default) with 1Password. I usually include special characters—the one I used included &#x27;,{&lt;&#x27; and the asterisk.<p>• The signup field accepted my password—and the signup email <i>included the password I had provided</i> in cleartext…at least it did up until the &#x27;&lt;&#x27; (where there were probably another ~20 characters left).<p>• Neither the password as I used it nor the truncated version that I was sent works to log me in.<p>Implementing PBKDF2 isn&#x27;t that hard, even in PHP (<a href="http://mark-story.com/posts/view/using-bcrypt-for-passwords-in-cakephp);" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mark-story.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;view&#x2F;using-bcrypt-for-passwords-...</a> it took me two days to implement, test, and deploy a migration on Rails (and that&#x27;s only because I&#x27;m a cautious SOB who doesn&#x27;t want to make a mistake affecting customers and we had two tables to do it against with two different password types). If you&#x27;re offering this to businesses, you should do everything you can to protect their data—even if you are in beta. POF can get away with storing plaintext passwords, or sending them to customers, but you shouldn&#x27;t do that.
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martin-adamsalmost 12 years ago
Looks interesting. You might want to focus on explaining who this is for and what problem it solves for them.<p>For example:<p>Retailer: &quot;You&#x27;ll be pleased to know your product has been dispatch and is on it&#x27;s way for delivery tomorrow morning&quot;<p>Estate Agent: &quot;We have a viewing book for your property at 11:30 on Friday&quot;<p>Digital Agency: &quot;We have published wireframes of your project for you to review&quot;
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noir_lordalmost 12 years ago
On your &#x2F;steps page you have invalid markup.<p>You are not closing the div (class .btn.btn-danger) so you have an open element when you try and close the list tags.<p>I noticed it because I viewed the source (always interested to see what people are using to build front-end stuff).<p>edited: for clarity.
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csearsalmost 12 years ago
Looks nice, but do you think there&#x27;s a business model for something this simple&#x2F;light?<p>Unless you were dealing with a project that had dozens or hundreds of users&#x2F;clients interested in tracking the status, it seems like sending an email would be a lot lower friction.
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missenlinxalmost 12 years ago
For an online demo without signing up head over to <a href="http://app.trakstat.us/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;app.trakstat.us&#x2F;</a>