Show HN: ApproveAPI – Real-Time user approvals via email, SMS, and push

It seems it's made with slate -> https://github.com/lord/slate

Yes! The user would get a text with a link.

> I don't think it's a challenging enough problem on its surface to keep someone from re-writing it and replacing you long term

Agreed, it's nice to get something up and running for a personal project, but I'm building a commercial app that has to pass a basic security audit and every 3rd party service adds another attack vector and potential leak of sensitive data (like name, Email & phone).

I love the idea of being able to run a service like this though that's basically a set and forget hackathon project.

That's a mocked-up css animation, not a video of the actual email. Feel free to try the demo in the API dashboard to see the full UX.

I wish I built this. this is a great idea. it's simple and useful it's something I could have built myself in a couple of weeks and it aggregates a lot of business useful functionality into one place. I'm putting this in my list of businesses that are good ideas because they factor out internal projects repeated across many companies.

Reading the comments here it seems a lot of people are triggered. instead of acknowledging the idea is good and they wish they had build at themselves, they are in denial dismissing it's utility by saying it won't work as a business, or they could build it internally. I say this in the Spirit of a good hn comment is something we can learn from and I believe people can learn from examining their own reactions. it seems the denial and dismissal simply serves to make one feel better about the realisation that they missed the chance to build this even though they could have and it is a good idea. so instead of facing that feeling and learning something useful they "alter reality" by downplaying the idea is good to limit the pain.

my point is that that's not a very useful response because it neutralizes the opportunity that could be something to learn from. and I guess if you do this pattern of behaviour enough then, you stop yourself learning many times miss the chance to create things you want and maybe get addicted to this reaction of altering reality to feel better rather than learning something to get a result.