The basic idea behind MercuryPuzzle is to evaluate your personality and talents and provide you suggestions of matching companies and people with similar career paths. You can think of it as some kind of career "browser". "if person X is now in position Y, which steps and skill did help to get there?"

Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the late reply, HN thought I was replying too fast so it stopped me.. ;)

For the matching part you are absolutely right, it's not necessary to create an account for that. However, our overall goal is to connect talented people with matching companies and people with similar career paths. It's much easier to take advantage of this networking effect with active accounts. Maybe we can manage to let you create your profile at a later point of the path, I'll bring this to discussion tomorrow!

Thanks for the feedback! The overall goal of the platform is to connect talents with interesting companies. Especially for huge companies it is often hard to find suitable candidates. If you wouldn't register they couldn't reach out to you at a later point.

You are right about facebook! That's exactly why we choose to implemenent the mannual signup option without facebook. But we do respect the privacy of our users very much! We never post on any walls or something. In our the privacy settings you can furthermore control the visibility of every single field on your profile.

would it not be possible to leave an email address without registering for an account? It's more the password side that's a pain really.

Also in response to your edit, I do trust that you guys are honest but I'm aware of a lot of sites which use Facebook Connect to get permissions to someone's wall and just start spamming them heavily. By emphasising Facebook Connect you may get tarred with the same brush.

I'd add Mozilla Persona, it's very easy to do.

Thank you very much! This means a lot to us! Hehe we thought about that, but we are not participating in the company matching.. ;)

We analyze friends interaction to calculate some kind of "best friends score". Basicly we try to figure out who your best friends are and take this into account to improve the matching.

Hi! Thanks for the report! This is new to us :/ Which browser culture do you have? Does it work for you if you switch to english at the bottom of the page?

It does work (also text on the front page when choosing field of interest). I had no idea I was not on english, and I hadn't chosen Dutch - I'm not in Netherlands.

I can not reset my answer though. If I choose "Back to start" followed by "Back to frontpage" and start over, I'm at step 3/7 again.

Not sure if it's related, but I see the (otherwise great) introduction/tour every time I restart.

Also, I can start matching without choosing a field of interest.

I'm not trying to pile on, I'm just writing down what I know in case it can help you solve it (or confirm that it only happens to me).

Trying on Chrome on Mac does work, but also has the "stuck at step 3/7" problem.

Firefox on Mac does work.

Only way I can reset it seems to be to delete all cookies.

Liking the questions, short and to the point. Great design and feel :)

Thank you very much! We'll look into that!

The location field is for cities only. We tested it with very small cities around europe, it is based on OSM so it should work in the US too. Please let me know if it's still not working for you: birke@mercurypuzzle.com

We are still working on that, we will defenetely impelement this in the near future. You will receive a newsletter when it's ready! If you can't wait shoot us a mail to account@mercurypuzzle.com that you want your account to be removed.