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Why Floati has no accounts
An account is the easiest thing to add and the hardest to take back. So I decided Floati would not have one, and let that shape everything else.
Almost every product asks you to sign up. It is so normal that leaving it out feels like a mistake, and I spent some time wondering whether I was being naive.
This was one of the first things I decided. The notes in my very first commit, on 28 March 2026, already say there are no accounts, and I can tell you the thinking behind it.
What an account really is
An account looks like a small thing. It is one form. But it means I now hold your email and a password. I have to keep them safe, reset them, and answer for them if something goes wrong. It gives me a list of people, and a list of people is something a company eventually wants to use.
I did not want to build that and then promise to behave well with it. I would rather not have it.
The safest data to look after is the data I never asked for.
That thought made everything simpler. Your CV draft stays in your browser. Your code and answers in Learn stay on your device. There is no list of users to breach, because I never made one.
The cost
It does cost me. I cannot easily tell you when something new is ready. And if you clear your browser, your work is gone, because I never had a copy. That one worries me most. Nobody should lose hours of work.
That is why Learn has Save across devices. You only give an email there if you press the button. The address is used to send you a short code and is then forgotten. Your progress is kept encrypted. It was more work than a normal login, and I am happy with that trade.
The stars on this blog work the same way. They stay in your browser. If you already use Save across devices, they follow you. Nothing new to sign up for, and that is the whole idea.