Ask HN: How to provide a free trial without being abused?
by js4ever 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?