You’re right. It’s cumbersome. And this will change.

I actually spooked for launch and dialed things down.

The idea was for a user to skip the interface and just type a subdomain to get started: <whatever>.tips.io

All sites would start in a playground mode where no signup is required to get going.

But it would be timed and if you didn’t add an email progress would be lost and the site would self-delete.

For launch, I limited it to basically zero to work out bugs and spam. I will be reversing this but open to ideas to balance onboarding.