15 by js4ever | 16 comments on Hacker News.
I've launched a few weeks ago Elest.io (fully managed open source) and we are struggling with free trials. If we don't ask for a valid CC people from all around the world abuse the free trial and use the services to do DDOS, port scanning, and a lot of other illegal things! When we do ask for CC legit users are turned away ... we tried to explain that we don't charge anything and it's only for fraud prevention ... but not effect. We also tried to ask for a public social network profile to verify the identity instead of a CC but again it was not well perceived. Is there any solution to this?
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