The prompt

Sign up as a new user.
List the top five fixes.

A first-time pass of your onboarding: what showed up at each step, and the five things to fix first.

What it asks for

Sign up as someone who has never used the product. Walk the onboarding. List the top five things to fix, with what you saw on each screen.

Walk your signup
Stumblet, an apricot clay character with a navy collar, exploring with a folded map and a yellow note on its head.

A chat window makes it fiddly

Doing that prompt by hand, in a chat, stalls on the same three gaps.

  • The model has no browser, so it cannot open your signup.
  • It cannot take a screenshot of the screen it is on.
  • You paste the prompt again for the next product, and you still describe the page yourself.

Stumblet runs it

Paste the URL. Impatient opens it, one screen at a time. The report comes back with the log, a screenshot on each step, the fixes in order, and one before-and-after.

Doing it yourself, step by step, is the new-user signup test. A fresh browser, a new email, every pause, a line per screen, five fixes, and one sketch.

It stops before a card, a captcha, or a verification wall. Nothing is submitted unless you own the site and give a test email. The onboarding checklist is the short version of what that walk looks for. Questions it runs into: confirm password, signup fields, the first screen, and a button that stays disabled, password rules shown before submit, and a field that asks for a work email, and a provider button above the email.

Where the idea came from

Noah Kagan shared a prompt that is the inspiration for Stumblet. That post is not an endorsement, and Stumblet is not affiliated with him.

Walk your signup