Honestly I don't see any scenario where this service would add value, on the contrary.
Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
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Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#12Facebook had a free simple login service, over email and SMS as well. Until they shut it down.
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#13First thing I noticed, hovering the big "Get started" button did not change my mouse cursor to a link-pointer. Just a small suggestion :).
Edit: Also, after clicking on "Get Started", the first field (email) should be in focus so the user can start typing, without having to move their mouse and click it first.
Edit 2: I love the simplicity of this tool. The interface is pretty good (but not yet great). How can I contact you?
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#14No:
- for trivial projects, I don’t want them to stop working one day
- for more serious services, moving login to a third party is a huge risk. The upside isn’t worth the risk. Even if it did your pricing is way too expensive, but that could be fixed.
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#15Your fee example seems either plain wrong or dishonest. If you use Stripe to handle payments, the fee of using your service must be higher than using Stripe directly. But you claim that Stripe would take 35c, but you only 25c.
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#16The redirect should happen automatically when they click the email, you shouldn’t ask the user to shuffle around their tabs after that point.
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#17Wouldn’t it be „wrong“ to teach my users to trust login emails coming from a foreign domain? Also, how do you plan to keep your emails out of spam folders and blacklists? From your website it wasn’t clear to me how I would check the login code for validity.
I know where you are coming from but it's sad that new service email is assumed to land in "spam". Spam was meant for special, not default.
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#18Your fee example seems either plain wrong or dishonest. If you use Stripe to handle payments, the fee of using your service must be higher than using Stripe directly. But you claim that Stripe would take 35c, but you only 25c.
I think they mean that you pay both 25c to them and 35c to Stripe.
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#19Your fee example seems either plain wrong or dishonest. If you use Stripe to handle payments, the fee of using your service must be higher than using Stripe directly. But you claim that Stripe would take 35c, but you only 25c.
I understand it would be 25c+35c.
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#20If I had some smaller website that I charge nothing or barely anything on, I might. If I had a bigger SaaS product, probably not. I wouldn't say your pricing is necessarily unfair, but paying 5% for what is probably a very small part of the application, I couldn't stomach.
Thanks for the feedback! I’m open to changing the fee – is there a % fee you would be more comfortable with?