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Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

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Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

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Post by jacobovidal »

colinplamondon wrote: post #10

Holy crap you guys are awesome. I've brought this idea up with all my entrepreneur friends, everyone's surprised it hasn't been built. Super slick, flexible implementation. The onboarding was smooth, and made it clear how feature-filled the debugging experience is. Don't have a use case for this personally right now (iOS / Android apps only, native code), but will definitely use in the future. Congrats on the launch.…

Thank you very much for your kind words! Feel free to reach me out when you have a use case, I would love to help :)

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

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Post by mbforbes »

jacobovidal wrote: post #3
heckerhut wrote: post #2

Trying the demo, the page is too wide for my phone, resulting in horizontal scrolling (Safari)

Thanks for reporting it!

I wrote a tutorial for fixing this issue, in case it might help: https://maxwellforbes.com/posts/fixing-mobile-page-layouts

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

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Post by masa331 »

Building a sign-up/sign-in flows takes like a two hours at most for me with the frameworks i'm fluent with. And i can tweak anything and everything exactly to the product needs. I don't get why would anybody want to be dependent with such elementary thing on some external provider AND pay for it.

But i know people trying to outsource everything whats possible, i see this trend getting stronger and stronger, so perhaps it can get a lot of clients. Good luck anyways.

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

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Post by jacobovidal »

masa331 wrote: post #13

Building a sign-up/sign-in flows takes like a two hours at most for me with the frameworks i'm fluent with. And i can tweak anything and everything exactly to the product needs. I don't get why would anybody want to be dependent with such elementary thing on some external provider AND pay for it. But i know people trying to outsource everything whats possible, i see this trend getting stronger and stronger, so perhap…

I get your point and yes, a basic sign-up or login flow can take a few hours to code using a framework. But when you start adding features like OTPs, social login with account linking, conditional logic, data validation, 3rd party widgets to verify identity or link bank accounts, automations to send a welcome email, store the data in your CRM, etc. And as you grow, more things come up and that's when this starts to get messy and most of the time you regret reinventing the wheel.

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

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Post by runako »

Congratulations on the launch! This looks really awesome, and I plan to try it out for a project I am working on.

A feature request: I would absolutely love to have something like Arengu that also handles the rest of the boilerplate SaaS stack. Key is a branded user portal with a billing area (I should just give it my Stripe keys and let it generate the screens); user/team management, etc.

To give an example: if you click your avatar in the top right of a Github page, I would like to outsource all of those pages. (How would that work? I would provide APIs and then have some kind of page builder in Arengu that would display the data & handle user input. So for example if I were Github, I would have an endpoint that would return JSON for the repositories for a user, and Arengu would display github.com/$USER?tab=repositories. There could also be API contracts where my API essentially returns the HTML for part of the page.) Basically -- use your front-end builder to reduce the front-end code I need to write & manage.

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

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Post by jacobovidal »

runako wrote: post #17

Congratulations on the launch! This looks really awesome, and I plan to try it out for a project I am working on. A feature request: I would absolutely love to have something like Arengu that also handles the rest of the boilerplate SaaS stack. Key is a branded user portal with a billing area (I should just give it my Stripe keys and let it generate the screens); user/team management, etc. To give an example: if you…

This is a really interesting use case. If you use Stripe, you can use the Stripe Customer Portal to allow your users to handle subscriptions, update users' information, billing details, etc: https://www.arengu.com/tutorials/passwordless-authentication...

Anyway, there are many boilerplate SaaS blocks that might make sense to explore for Arengu, but currently we're focused on signup and onboarding flows/screens.

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

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Post by masa331 »

jacobovidal wrote: post #14
masa331 wrote: post #13

Building a sign-up/sign-in flows takes like a two hours at most for me with the frameworks i'm fluent with. And i can tweak anything and everything exactly to the product needs. I don't get why would anybody want to be dependent with such elementary thing on some external provider AND pay for it. But i know people trying to outsource everything whats possible, i see this trend getting stronger and stronger, so perhap…

I get your point and yes, a basic sign-up or login flow can take a few hours to code using a framework. But when you start adding features like OTPs, social login with account linking, conditional logic, data validation, 3rd party widgets to verify identity or link bank accounts, automations to send a welcome email, store the data in your CRM, etc. And as you grow, more things come up and that's when this starts to g…

I think only the welcome email is really valuable to have from all the things you listed. And if you can't handle few ifs within your sign in logic... good luck with your business logic.

Re: Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

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Post by hbcondo714 »

dopeboy wrote: post #15

Love the energy going into this problem space. I've been using a competitor ( https://clerk.dev/ ) and excited to check Argengu out too.

Thanks for mentioning clerk.dev but I don't see it having any billing features which IMO is foundational for something like this. Arengu has subscription payments.
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