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Re: Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more

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Why should I link myself so heavily to a provider like you? Not wanting to troll, as a dev, I know that the problems you try to solve are common, but still wondering what happens "if..."

By "if..." I assume you mean by going out of business? In that case the service would be released as open source and you would continue as normal.

What I would like feedback on is how people would like to use a service like this? Self hosted with a license? SaaS? some other way I'm not thinking of?

Re: Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more

#22
post #19

I released Base about a month ago and created a blog post with some details https://dev.to/gdotdesign/base-api-for-authentication-email-... Let me know what you think! :)

Hi, could you explain this section from your TOS? "You will provide us the right to reproduce, modify or create derivative works from your Content. Obviously we won’t be modifying your Content, we need these rights for example to be able to share your designs with other users. You will also provide us a right to publicly perform or display your Content to allow us to display the material on other users’ monitors. Bas…

Thank you for the comment. It's not my intention to claim any ownership of content, I'll review the text and modify it accordingly.

Re: Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more

#23
I use firebase for authentication and have been quite happy with it, but if this provides better integration with mailing lists out of the box, that would be compelling to me. Although I use firebase for authenticated users, I also have a mailing list sign up form with just an email field. I ended up creating my own confirmation email flow because I needed it to work for both people who created an account and people who just used the email form. It would've been nice not to have to do that.

Re: Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more

#24
post #20

Why should I link myself so heavily to a provider like you? Not wanting to troll, as a dev, I know that the problems you try to solve are common, but still wondering what happens "if..."

By "if..." I assume you mean by going out of business? In that case the service would be released as open source and you would continue as normal. What I would like feedback on is how people would like to use a service like this? Self hosted with a license? SaaS? some other way I'm not thinking of?

For me, as an early stage startup founder, I'd prefer SaaS. At this stage I don't want to have to think about anything that could've been handled for me. At a later stage I might prefer self-hosted, but not sure.

Re: Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more

#26

I use firebase for authentication and have been quite happy with it, but if this provides better integration with mailing lists out of the box, that would be compelling to me. Although I use firebase for authenticated users, I also have a mailing list sign up form with just an email field. I ended up creating my own confirmation email flow because I needed it to work for both people who created an account and people…

Mailing list support is definitely on the backlog!

Re: Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more

#27
Seems like policies around data and privacy would be paramount here. As someone who has developed a couple backends I always struggle to see the value add of a system like this. For me, it always seems like this is something I'll have to do later and back tracking would be more work. Very clean site though, the mint technology piece was pretty interesting as well. Good synergy to market both at once!

Re: Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more

#29
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, could you explain this section from your TOS? "You will provide us the right to reproduce, modify or create derivative works from your Content. Obviously we won’t be modifying your Content, we need these rights for example to be able to share your designs with other users. You will also provide us a right to publicly perform or display your Content to allow us to display the material on other users’ monitors. Bas…

Thank you for the comment. It's not my intention to claim any ownership of content, I'll review the text and modify it accordingly.

It says that in the quoted text. You still didn't answer the question though.
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