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Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

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Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

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Post by bmillipede »

WA wrote: post #14

Why? Honestly, how can you "outsource" such a vital part of your web app to a third party? Not only is this a privacy disaster but also, if this user service goes down or has a temporary downtime, your own business is effectively unusable. I understand that it makes sense to not write these types of user functions and management things over and over again. The solution however, is not a SaaS, but a library or a littl…

Because we need can spend that energy on product development. Once your product takes off, we can migrate. But a service such as this (I use dailycred.com ) is very useful for MVPs.

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

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Post by camus »

aytekin wrote: post #29
WA wrote: post #14

Why? Honestly, how can you "outsource" such a vital part of your web app to a third party? Not only is this a privacy disaster but also, if this user service goes down or has a temporary downtime, your own business is effectively unusable. I understand that it makes sense to not write these types of user functions and management things over and over again. The solution however, is not a SaaS, but a library or a littl…

One possible use case: Let's say you are building a new app and you don't know if it will be successful. At this point you are supposed to be working on the core. You are supposed to be talking with the users as soon as possible. You are not supposed to spend your time on things that don't matter such as registration, email delivery, forgot password. If the app becomes successful you can always implement these things…

Please , in every languages there are a tons of libraries dealing with these stuffs, Starter projects with these functionalities ...

    At this point you are supposed to be working on the core

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

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Post by UK-AL »

camus wrote: post #42
aytekin wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One possible use case: Let's say you are building a new app and you don't know if it will be successful. At this point you are supposed to be working on the core. You are supposed to be talking with the users as soon as possible. You are not supposed to spend your time on things that don't matter such as registration, email delivery, forgot password. If the app becomes successful you can always implement these things…

Please , in every languages there are a tons of libraries dealing with these stuffs, Starter projects with these functionalities ... At this point you are supposed to be working on the core

Invoicing, Price Plans and Payment. These are not normally built in. Basic user management is, but not those things.

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

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Post by dchest »

typerandom wrote: post #31
dchest wrote: post #26

I'm working on something like this, but installable on your own server. Subscribe here if you want to know when I release it: https://lists.codingrobots.net/?p=subscribe&id=3

Nice. I have subscribed to your mailing list. Will be interesting to see how you approach it :)

Thanks, and good luck with UserApp!

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

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Post by Asparagirl »

Hey, this looks like a nice time-saver for those of us starting up side projects. Not everybody wants to build out this stuff over and over, and working with OAuth is a pain. So, thanks!

Now, I know it's on your roadmap, but I would really like to see sample code integrating with one or more payment providers or recurring billing management services. Stripe and Recurly would be top of my list. Would love it if you could get that up soon.

Would also like more docs about the differences between permissions and features. I mean, I think I get it, but more specific text would make me feel more sure.

Minor bug: in my own account information, when I went to go edit it, you have separate fields for given/first name and surname, but you refer to both in the info/help text as a surname or last name.

Anyway, nice job!

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

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Post by jokull »

This would be cool as an extension of the Mixpanel API. So instead of just tracking users you’d have all these features as well. I’ll agree with the criticism of this being a point of failure too big for mission critical systems, but if it gets proof of concepts off the ground sooner, who knows? Could be a great way to save time. I would suggest thinking carefully how you would eventually grow out of each component. That’d be my main concern. I want to be able to switch out components one at a time.

Re: Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps

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Post by alecsmart1 »

This is a great idea. I've been thinking of developing something similar. But you cannot sell it as SaaS. It needs to be a one-time self hosted project so that startups and download, install and be ready in minutes. At the same time there are no security/privacy issues that most users here are worried about.
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