django-lazysignup

An introduction to django-lazysignup - lowering the barrier to web site signup.

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1. django-lazysignup Dan Fairs dan@secondsync.com @danfairs Some stuff from alltheragefaces.com Friday, 14 December 12
2. The Problem • Your web app is AWESOME • I want to TRY IT NOW Friday, 14 December 12
3. I HAVE TO SIGN UP Friday, 14 December 12
4. Signup is a barrier • Forms to fill in • Yet another password to manage • I don’t want to let you post on my wall/ tweet/whatever Friday, 14 December 12
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6. How can we solve this? • Special ‘trial version’ that doesn’t really save • Allow anon users to keep app state in session Friday, 14 December 12
7. Ugh. • All these approaches mean you have to create and maintain a cut-down version of your site with its own persistence mechanism. Friday, 14 December 12
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9. Enter lazysignup • What’s the simplest thing we could do? • Just create real users • The rest of the app will then Just Work. Friday, 14 December 12
10. Enter lazysignup • Automatically create ‘unusable’ users if an anon user hits particular views • contrib.auth lets you do this already • Provide a way to convert lazy users to real ones by setting a username and password • Cleanup management command Friday, 14 December 12
11. Installing or Friday, 14 December 12
12. Implementing Friday, 14 December 12
13. Demo time We’re taking the red pill. Friday, 14 December 12
14. Thanks! https://github.com/danfairs/django-lazysignup http://django-lazysignup.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ index.html Demo: https://github.com/danfairs/antisocial-network @danfairs Friday, 14 December 12