The worst moment in any app's onboarding is when someone wants to see the thing and the app says: create an account first.
Name, email, password, maybe a verification code, maybe a bunch of permissions, and only then do you get to find out whether the product is actually worth your time. Golf apps are terrible at this. You don't know if you like it until you're inside it, and you can't get inside it until you trust it enough to hand over your email.
We cut that gate.
You can now log a complete round on caddie.fun without an account. Open the site, hit the marketing page, start a round as a guest. Full scoring (hole by hole, net or gross, your format of choice) from the first tee to the 18th green. The whole thing runs under a temporary session tied to a 30-day cookie. No email required to start.
If you finish the round and want to keep it, there's an optional email capture that sends you a claim link. Tap it, create your account, and the round merges in: score, stats, and any XP you earned. The round you played as a guest becomes part of your permanent record. Nothing gets lost.
If you don't sign up, the round expires after 30 days. No hard feelings. You still played 18 holes and saw what the app does.
The practical use case is obvious if you've ever tried to get a group playing: one person has the app, three don't. The three aren't going to download something and create accounts on the first tee. They're not. You know they're not, they know they're not, and the moment is going to pass.
Guest scoring changes that. The person who has the app starts the round, shares the link, and anyone who taps it can follow the score. The keeper enters scores, the group sees it live. After the round, whoever wants to keep playing and track their game signs up and claims their history. The others had a full round of the product without committing to anything.
The best advertisement for an app is using the app. Everything else is conjecture.
The session has a guest-mode banner the whole time so it's always clear you're in a temporary state. The claim link is a one-time thing. It expires once you use it, so the merge happens exactly once and your round doesn't end up in two places. There's no gotcha where the temporary account silently persists or gets tied to another user's session.
If you've been on the fence about whether caddie.fun is worth creating an account for, go find out. No email required until you decide you want to keep it.
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