I've been going very deep on device-based identity (I previously co-founded YC S14 Cognito that was acquired by Plaid) and am going to start sharing some of the things I've been learning.
The core takeaway: every AI agent browser system out there talks about having incredible anti-bot, but they're all extremely straightforward to catch. I thought it would be worthwhile to validate a bunch of their marketing claims to see whose stealth systems actually work.
Happy to answer any questions you may have about anti-bot (both on the defensive and offensive)
If you make the black overlay container position fixed and the window itself normal, you can have the modal scroll within the context of the black overlay. Facebook uses this same method and it's significantly nicer!
Cool idea! I think there are a few things on the usability side that you could do to make it even better:
* Lock the body when you open the modal by setting overflow: hidden. That will prevent people from scrolling around accidentally while filling out the form.
* This is related to the first point, but you should probably position: fixed the modal
* Make the label for the monthly donation clickable - people shouldn't have to find the little check box!
* Lighten the .iframe-subheader-text as it can be pretty low contrast when the background is white
* Add some subtle animations to the open and closing of the modal. It feels very jarring right now.
Jumio is actually a complementary service to ours. Jumio pulls information off of identification, but the information is not verified. You can use us to verify and authenticate that information.
Account recovery is a great use case. Any mission critical applications for businesses should require more than security questions or a phone call in order to gain access to accounts.
We agree that front-loading is not always the best solution and are working on systems to help firms with progressive authentication, too.
tldr; There's room in the market for more than one non-solid dietary product, the goal of Soylent is to be a complete alternative that supports an active life rather than something that just lets you survive, ensure is expensive and low calorie.
The main lecturer co-founded one of the biggest personal genomics companies in the US, so I'm quite certain that he realizes the difference between the two.
The course emphasizes using CS-related skills in any startup for product development and getting insight into your market. Example exercises are things like scraping competitor data, wading through genomic data from the cmd line and building internal APIs for managing company data.
I took it in the winter at Stanford. It was an amazing class - the material was very strong and there's an emphasis on working on ideas that matter. Read: not social startup #5024. Every Thursday we had hackathons that went til 6am where the main lecturer would advise us on our ideas, give feedback on the product and generally teach us about the important things™. That was considered to be v1 of the course, and I know he (the lecturer) plans to iterate on it and make it better every time it's offered.
There are a lot of single view self destruct sites, but I wanted to make a new one because I wanted to let people host their own instead of relying on the site provider.
Hm, yes, added a warning message, good idea. As for your other thoughts, I completely agree. It's a work-in-progress and I figured the best way to figure out what's wrong is to learn from others.
Edit: Also added a link to that discussion next to Nadim's post.
Thanks, and that is absolutely true. That's why it's open source: I want people to host their own version if they don't trust me https://github.com/alainmeier/cryptonote
The core takeaway: every AI agent browser system out there talks about having incredible anti-bot, but they're all extremely straightforward to catch. I thought it would be worthwhile to validate a bunch of their marketing claims to see whose stealth systems actually work.
Happy to answer any questions you may have about anti-bot (both on the defensive and offensive)