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points by mft_ 1 day ago | 0 comments

100%. Let people play and —most importantly— invest time and effort in the platform without friction.

For PCB quotes yes, but this kind of thing can be gamed by competitors. I think this is why there isn't great price info for many brick and mortar and online shops now..

[–] SlimyHog 1 day ago

> but this kind of thing can be gamed by competitors

What's preventing a competitor from creating an account?

[–] elxr 1 day ago

Which is more important? Blocking competitors from gaming your price quotes, or making the buying experience instantly better for every single customer and potential customer?

[–] j16sdiz 1 day ago

Most of these work have real person to look and validate the cost. Doing that without account would be too little friction and overwhelm the team.

[–] katbyte 1 day ago

Most of the ones (for cnc and sheet metal at least) I’ve used do an estimate while you poke around and select options and then you send it for a final validation and quote.

[–] mft_ 22 hours ago

If you're deliberately creating additional inconvenience to potential customers to handle your own resource/scaling issues... that's a 'you problem', and you need to figure out a better way to run things, or customers will just run to competitors who've already done so.

[–] ilaksh 1 day ago

Right and they already said they have a massive backlog and are trying to increase by 500%.

[–] seddona 1 day ago

Yeah mostly we just haven't got around to it as the burning fire is always increasing capacity vs demand. Defo agree we should not require login though!