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ryanjm33 on Jan 30, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: State of SaaS Product Onboarding

The problem with this approach is that you assume the user only has one email address signed in. They might have `/u/1/` as their personal email used on your website. This could cause more confusion than help since this isn't common practice. (Plus you are assuming gmail.)

markdown on Jan 30, 2020 [–]

> Plus you are assuming gmail.

There aren't any assumptions. You use this method if the user provided a gmail address. Users of other email services fall back to the default method.

Geee on Jan 31, 2020 | [–]

It's not just gmail, but G Suite. The idea is to look up the MX records and detect this.

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