I appreciate your attention to overall aesthetics. The video I watched was informative and reasonably well organized.<p>However, the site hits one of my hot buttons: harvesting email addresses. As a live person, all that really matters to me is a username and password. My experience suggests the long term potential cost of providing a working email isn't worth it just to try the site out on the off chance that it turns out to be a community worth joining.<p>I understand that it is a way of trying to handle spam on your end. Not providing an email address is a way of handling spam on my end. Offloading your problem onto the user, is the inverse of a useful business proposition. How does Hacker News manage to work without it?<p>Anyway, that's my issue not yours. Again, nice work.<p>I'm curious regarding how you see the site evolving. Will it be a platform for other authors too?