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Why I Love Building Userfront(userfront.com)
2 points by ukulele 2y ago|0 comments
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by ukulele 2y ago
They also have the Gates Foundation backing. If it is a shiny AI tech that could help lots of people, then the money is there
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by ukulele 4y ago
An example of US VCs squandering on scooter startups is bike sharing in China?
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by ukulele 4y ago
Squandered is a bit harsh. I don't have skin in the game either way, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is a profitable business to be built once the dust settles. It can be hard to know in advance just how big that market would
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by ukulele 4y ago
We tried cognito (bizarrely hard to use), Auth0 (mildly hard to use), and Userfront (easy to use) for authentication + rbac + multi-tenancy. We also looked at Warrant and Oso, and my takeaway was that they shine for more complex use cases,
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by ukulele 4y ago
> The US was created by its citizens. I'm a US citizen, and I love the US and benefit from it, but I certainly didn't create it. That happened long before me -- I just lucked into it.
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by ukulele 4y ago
I don't think you're being sarcastic, but this is where web applications are already. You can do this with the browser as the sandbox.
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by ukulele 4y ago
It's very widely used. Most SSO providers are using it, including the biggest ones.
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by ukulele 4y ago
We did the same and it has been great. Their MFA beta is so much simpler too. I do wish they were easier to find...
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by ukulele 4y ago
DOS = denial of service
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by ukulele 5y ago
Thank you for building it! I haven't kicked the tires yet, but as a node developer, this feels like the future: we can move fast with node when it makes sense, and get rust level performance when we need to. Best of both worlds!
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by ukulele 5y ago
Not trolling, just very frustrated. But yes a valuable lesson.
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by ukulele 5y ago
Yes, it is our fault for believing Netlify had contingency plans as hosting is their core business. We're fixing this mistake now so that our customers don't have the same experience.
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by ukulele 5y ago
We use(d) Netlify for the frontend. I agree, our mistake was believing Netlify could be used for more than toy websites and took care of backup plans for us. Clearly they do not.
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by ukulele 5y ago
Honestly, "not taking advantage of our DNS management" is a garbage response. We use AWS for our DNS management. If you offer a configuration, you should support it fully. Our sites have been down for 3 hours now, and you're
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by ukulele 5y ago
We're in the same boat, and when Netlify blames an "upstream provider", what I hear is that they don't have a backup plan. They're giving us plenty of time to research alternatives while our site is down though.
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by ukulele 6y ago
Just wait until you find Userfront, which does the same thing for free until 10k users
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by ukulele 6y ago
I was curious so looked up "all mouth and no trousers". It's corrupted from the expression "all mouth and trousers", and means the same thing!
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by ukulele 6y ago
Amazon (and all the others you've mentioned) have the ability to choose their suppliers. There isn't piss in the Gatorade nor nails in the M&Ms because this is a solved problem: make companies liable for their supply chains.
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by ukulele 6y ago
This would make the payers far less likely to report it, and ultimately make it much harder to track
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by ukulele 6y ago
If you're considering a really low price point like $5/mo, you might be better suited charging businesses more and then having a free tier that's restricted to personal use in some way (e.g. license or no collaboration)
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by ukulele 7y ago
There are a LOT of businesses running on thin margins and making just enough to cover costs each month. Even one month of things going to zero will ruin a whole host of restaurants, sole proprietors, real estate speculators, and on down the
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by ukulele 7y ago
I'm always amazed at how few people have read The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. It covers the physics, politics, motivation, cultural implications, and so much more. It's one of those books where being extremely l
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by ukulele 7y ago
What is your top priority coming in, and how will you evaluate whether you're succeeding?
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by ukulele 7y ago
What was it?
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by ukulele 7y ago
Built-in audience of readers
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by ukulele 7y ago
Good to know, and so sounds like there is reason to be cynical after all.
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by ukulele 7y ago
I understand the cynicism, but for now at least this is not affecting pricing (which is still based on subscribers [0]). Seems like it's more about finding ways to target users who have unsubscribed from a mailing list. That has its ow
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by ukulele 7y ago
> maybe the Boeing board would hand them over willingly This is not something the board can do
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by ukulele 7y ago
> He would be offline for a month and would need other mods to cover for him. To ask for help, he had to out himself as a kid. I wonder to what extent the alt-right actually is a young teen movement, with adults mixed in (being the ones

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