Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

#1

Post by typerandom » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 2:44 PM UTC

Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps
userapp.io

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

#2

Post by typerandom » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 2:47 PM UTC

We just launched UserApp after 9 months of hard work. Please try it out and let us know what you think :)

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

#3

Post by badclient » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 2:58 PM UTC

Looks intriguing and I can tell you guys have spent a lot of time on the feature-set. But the biggest thing that will hold me back(and may be others) is a lack of clarity about security and my data(what happens in the event that you are down? in the event that you close shop?)

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

#4

Post by sebkomianos » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 3:01 PM UTC

badclient wrote: post #3

Looks intriguing and I can tell you guys have spent a lot of time on the feature-set. But the biggest thing that will hold me back(and may be others) is a lack of clarity about security and my data(what happens in the event that you are down? in the event that you close shop?)

I am on the same boat and I'd suggest that apart from answering here you should put the relevant information on the front page of your project also. It'd be a pity to lose customers because of lack of clarification.

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

#5

Post by mariusblaesing » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 3:03 PM UTC

good idea, but coming from a privacy startup this is obviously a no-go..

and distributing a web-app would equal to just open source it.. I know, it's a dilemna

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

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Post by didgeoridoo » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 3:03 PM UTC

badclient wrote: post #3

Looks intriguing and I can tell you guys have spent a lot of time on the feature-set. But the biggest thing that will hold me back(and may be others) is a lack of clarity about security and my data(what happens in the event that you are down? in the event that you close shop?)

Seconded. How is user information stored? What's your crypto scheme? Can I get all my data out of the system if you go down or I want to change platforms?

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

#7

Post by arb99 » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 3:03 PM UTC

Looks good. I think the 'hours saved' under 'save time with userapp' is exaggerated a little :)

If i were to use it, I'd want some easy way to export the users though. I know i could iterate through them all and get the data (maybe not password hashes??), but at one point a web app would probably need something custom enough that i'd just want to have all the data myself.

I think things like stopping invalid signups, good spam protection etc could push people to use this. Also integrating login via facebook/google/twitter and making it work seamlessly out of the box would be a big plus. For those small website projects it would be much easier/quicker to plug this in, and focus on the core of the app, rather than all the user backend crap.

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

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Post by 3825 » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 3:03 PM UTC

typerandom wrote: post #2

We just launched UserApp after 9 months of hard work. Please try it out and let us know what you think :)

Have you done any A/B testing on including text like "That's about 4 cups of coffee" in pricing pages?

I found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4394114

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

#9

Post by sebslomski » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 3:04 PM UTC

This looks great! For me as a developer, who considers using it for a side project, I would even bother to spend the 9$ for the development version. Would be great to have a (user limited?) forever free account.

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

#10

Post by bjelkeman-again » Sat, Oct 05, 2013, 3:05 PM UTC

mariusblaesing wrote: post #5

good idea, but coming from a privacy startup this is obviously a no-go.. and distributing a web-app would equal to just open source it.. I know, it's a dilemna

I need to integrate something like this in an open source platform. Is there anything even close as an open source project? Or do we need to develop the same thing as FOSS ourselves?