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I've invested so much time in similar things just to not be able to afford it...",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"32360516","Krastan","This is cool! Is it free? If not would be good to have pricing be visible without creating an account. Also the logo in the header looks low definition. Upping its resolution…",{"value":111,"source":74,"evidence":112},"Cannot try the product without registering and no demo video is visible",[113,117],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"32360522","thih9","Is there any way to play with the product without registering? Or perhaps see a video showing it in action?",{"id":118,"by":115,"text":119},"32365678","> the majority of the homepage is a video example I’m not seeing any videos on the homepage (I’m using safari on iOS).",{"value":121,"source":74,"evidence":122},"Name is the same as Stripe's API demo app, which may hurt SEO",[123],{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"32364290","melony","Rocket ride is the name of Stripe's API demo app. Might want to change the name, this is bad for your SEO.",{"value":128,"source":74,"evidence":129},"Logo looks low resolution",[130],{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},{"value":132,"source":74,"evidence":133},"API does not show how to read task results or stored data",[134],{"id":135,"by":136,"text":137},"32363771","blackdogie","Best of luck. Two things that have tripped me up 1. \"and save the value of this attribute\", it wasn't clear that this could only be certain values, text, id. 2. 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Guess you'll learn how serious users may want to actually use the service, what that means for…",{"value":176,"source":74,"evidence":177},"Are new users still being accepted",[178],{"id":179,"by":180,"text":181},"32411869","Ladyady","Are you no longer accepting new users?",[183,190,197,204,214],{"value":184,"source":74,"evidence":185},"Automa browser extension",[186],{"id":187,"by":188,"text":189},"32364779","magundu","We are using Automa chrome extension for this kind of use cases. We really like it. It is free and open source. 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