yes very nice !
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?
#22I am afraid, I would not use it. As others pointed it out, login is such a small part of a system that it's not worth employing a 3rd party service to get it working.
Also, using this service requires trust. I personally don't use nor implement FB, Google, etc logins either as I don't trust them.
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#23No.
If my app is small, I'll roll my own or use the free tier from Auth0 or Okta.
If my app gets big, I'll roll my own or pay for Auth0 or Okta.
Like a lot of SAAS ideas, a login service is: too critical to trust with an unknown, already a mature SAAS offering elsewhere, and easy enough to implement yourself if you don't want to pay for it.
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#24Your 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’ll try to make this clearer, thanks for the feedback! You’d pay both, the Loginland fee on top of Stripe’s rate. (This is a pretty common pricing model for platforms – BuyMeACoffee has a similar 5% rate on top of Stripe). Open to suggestions! :)
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#25This is cool
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#26First 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 cont…
Thanks for the polish feedback, this is helpful! Feel free to get in touch on Twitter: I’m @benzguo
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#27I agree with kenji's (dead) comment.
I'd rather set up login functionality on my own server. If you use a third party service, their downtime becomes your downtime. Worse, you're injecting another company into your relationship with your users. If that were necessary, I'd choose one the customer was already familiar with, like Google, Facebook or Twitter.
Setting up login isn't very difficult and libraries exist for most webdev languages to make it even easier. It's definitely not worth 5% of my revenue.
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#28I am currently using Auth0 which has all the cool functionality of logging in with 3rd party services, user management, and so forth. I think I am paying them $25/m to use it, something fairly trivial but non-zero.
If I were getting started with logins again, I'd say I could pay you $250 one time just to download all the code, and roll it out on my own systems in minutes. This way I'd have user auth with easiest setup, and no need to reinvent it on my own. Probably.
But, are you just testing things, or is Login.land real? Since your own login system asks for password, instead of email-based auth like you are showing in the screenshots, I suspect that maybe this is just a test :)
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#29It’s not free if you ask for a share, therefore the title is misleading. Maybe title “I built a simple login service” would be more fitting. However, I would need to question simplicity as checking your email is far away from simplicity UX wise.
I wouldn’t use your service if you would pay me to use it. Comparing your service with Stripe is just ridiculous...
Re: Show HN: I built a free, simple login service. Would you use this?
#30No: - 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.
That makes sense – I’ve had the same feeling, but was curious if there was a niche, hence this post!
Is there a price point at which you would consider using something like this?