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Show HN: Manage access to Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, and more

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Re: Show HN: Manage access to Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, and more

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Looks like a clone of https://www.meldium.com/ , I think?

Yep, looks like it. Thanks for posting this. I was focused on the big players in the space, and I missed this one. It's interesting that it never came up while I was talking about it with others.

You're welcome. I'm not sure how well-known Meldium is -- I think the only reason I'm aware of it is that they're a YC company and I work for a YC company.

Re: Show HN: Manage access to Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, and more

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Hey everyone, I ran some Facebook ads and received some feedback from Reddit /r/startups. I decided it was enough validation to build it. If you're like me, you've probably used Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, HipChat, and many other apps on a daily basis. One of the things I found annoying was sending out invitations to all of these different apps. Onboarder solves this. When you need to invite someone new, type in their…

The haters are going to hate...

Identity, access/SSO, provisioning and management are all massive problems that need to be dealt with. For an MVP you are hitting on the important stuff.

Security and being trustworthy are going to be extremely important and I would stress that if I were you. You don't want to be a weak link.

Re: Show HN: Manage access to Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, and more

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Hey everyone, I ran some Facebook ads and received some feedback from Reddit /r/startups. I decided it was enough validation to build it. If you're like me, you've probably used Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, HipChat, and many other apps on a daily basis. One of the things I found annoying was sending out invitations to all of these different apps. Onboarder solves this. When you need to invite someone new, type in their…

I really don't mean to be a jerk, but this sounds like a terrible idea. Four places to send invites from? That's a first world problem, not a startup business opportunity.

It's a first-world problem that can take a lot of time. I'd much rather go to a single site and send out all of my invites than navigate to four individual sites and muck about in the settings to send an invite.

Re: Show HN: Manage access to Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, and more

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Hey everyone, I ran some Facebook ads and received some feedback from Reddit /r/startups. I decided it was enough validation to build it. If you're like me, you've probably used Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, HipChat, and many other apps on a daily basis. One of the things I found annoying was sending out invitations to all of these different apps. Onboarder solves this. When you need to invite someone new, type in their…

I really don't mean to be a jerk, but this sounds like a terrible idea. Four places to send invites from? That's a first world problem, not a startup business opportunity.

Distributed user permissions management is roughly as small an opportunity as Active Directory.

Re: Show HN: Manage access to Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, and more

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Hey everyone, I ran some Facebook ads and received some feedback from Reddit /r/startups. I decided it was enough validation to build it. If you're like me, you've probably used Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, HipChat, and many other apps on a daily basis. One of the things I found annoying was sending out invitations to all of these different apps. Onboarder solves this. When you need to invite someone new, type in their…

Onboarding is a pain to solve (yay), but offboarding is even worse. If this really does deactivate everyone's account across all services, it's a huge win.

Re: Show HN: Manage access to Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, and more

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Hey everyone, I ran some Facebook ads and received some feedback from Reddit /r/startups. I decided it was enough validation to build it. If you're like me, you've probably used Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, HipChat, and many other apps on a daily basis. One of the things I found annoying was sending out invitations to all of these different apps. Onboarder solves this. When you need to invite someone new, type in their…

I really don't mean to be a jerk, but this sounds like a terrible idea. Four places to send invites from? That's a first world problem, not a startup business opportunity.

Since when were first world problems not startup opportunities? It certainly doesn't sound like the next Google, but it could be a good side project that pays for his next vacation.

Re: Show HN: Manage access to Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, and more

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't mean to be a jerk, but this sounds like a terrible idea. Four places to send invites from? That's a first world problem, not a startup business opportunity.

It's a first-world problem that can take a lot of time. I'd much rather go to a single site and send out all of my invites than navigate to four individual sites and muck about in the settings to send an invite.

Your use of "then" rather than "than" makes it read like you do two steps in a specific order rather than the, I assume, intent of using a better alternative for a time consuming process.

Re: Show HN: Manage access to Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, and more

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really don't mean to be a jerk, but this sounds like a terrible idea. Four places to send invites from? That's a first world problem, not a startup business opportunity.

It's a first-world problem that can take a lot of time. I'd much rather go to a single site and send out all of my invites than navigate to four individual sites and muck about in the settings to send an invite.

I can't see how inviting users to a handful of services could take longer than 5-10 minutes? Is that really a "lot of time"?

Re: Show HN: Manage access to Basecamp, GitHub, Heroku, and more

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a first-world problem that can take a lot of time. I'd much rather go to a single site and send out all of my invites than navigate to four individual sites and muck about in the settings to send an invite.

Your use of "then" rather than "than" makes it read like you do two steps in a specific order rather than the, I assume, intent of using a better alternative for a time consuming process.

Ack! Sorry about that! I guess I wasn't paying enough attention.
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