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by rgthelen 2y ago
So interesting. How do you see regulations getting in the way of the ideal that you lay out?
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by rgthelen 4y ago
Thank you.
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by rgthelen 4y ago
Congrats on the launch. How is this different than FireHydrant?
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Some day!
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by rgthelen 5y ago
I love the unit test idea. Very cool!
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Will do! Shoot me your email (robert -a-t-- rownd.io), and I'll keep you free upto lets say 1000 monthly users... then we'll chat! That goes for anyone else! --Rob
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Thanks for this question. Two big changes: Most players in this space treat authentication as a point in time decision and it is usually static. IE, you are about to enter an webapp, we will now authenticate you. We think authentication
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by rgthelen 5y ago
I use this right now and love it.
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Hey, its Rob from Rownd. Agree, it is over-priced for simple use-cases. What would be an appropriate price for the hacker news audience? It is far easier for us to lower prices and raise them. Let me know and I'll change it!
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by rgthelen 5y ago
We allow the app/website developer to add html attributes to the form to send it to the Rownd hub if they choose. In the future, we will be a bit smarter to get it all, but right now it is more manual. Of course, if you don't wan
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Out sourcing credentials is critical. I'd go a step further, most apps/websites should out-source all of their personal data. Liability around personal data breaches is only increasing.
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by rgthelen 5y ago
That is an interesting dilemma. As we grow and the average end-user goes from 1 to 5 to 10-20 sites that is being protected by Rownd, we will enforce greater and greater authentication schemes for Rownd. The truth is, if your email is comp
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Will update right now. We will likely add Google Authentication since it is a faster way to validate your email (and 65% of internet users have gmail). Facebook auth is on its way out (down from 6M a few years ago
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Thank you for taking the time!
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by rgthelen 5y ago
This is a great point. We (at Rownd) are looking into self-hosted, open-source options as well. What are a few features that are MUST haves? There are some that are more complex (like SMS auth, email auth, etc). We want to 100% get away fr
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Hey Adam! That is a great question. We are new and want to find those folks that are willing to pay 2-10 times more than the competitors. Most all of our competitors are free for 2-12 months hoping to lock you in. It is very counter-intu
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Really like this! Thank you!
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Great point. What we (now with hindsight incorrectly) wanted to show was that you can enter you email and then NOT have to verify it and interact with the actual code snippet you can put into your app or website. Since we are in webflow and
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Google is kind of like "email verification" brought forward since they own 65% of the email market and even more of the browser market. We also "verify" and authenticate, but that is where we diverge. We also help websi
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Matt makes a great point. To emphasis: During check out, they still have you add your email and phone (for receipt, tracking, etc). It is transactional in nature, but the company still has it and likely saves the session with a cookie. Row
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback here. I totally understand the "set up a call" frustration. Since we just launched, we really want to talk to users or potential users and learn more about their use-cases. We manually onboarded our first
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by rgthelen 5y ago
> Accounts are negative value for most customers who don't regularly return. It's a source of friction: who hasn't forgotten the password for a site their rarely go to then decide it's not worth doing the password res
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by rgthelen 5y ago
That is our goal. There are a few different use-cases where no account is great and a few where you may want to create an account. Buying something from an ecommerse website could be either or. You may want to save some specifics or prefe
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Done! Try it now is up and running! Edit: Also, if you're willing, can you shoot me an email robert (a - t) rownd.io? would love to chat about your thoughts on the product.
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Rob here from Rownd. I just updated it, your feedback was spot on and I added a "try it now" button to the landing page. Edit: Even better, I updated the call to action at the top of the landing page. Thank you again for your fe
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Hey! I fixed the pricing (added the per month) and added a button to the landing page to "Try it now". Thank you for your very focused and tactical feedback. Easy to change!
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Thank you for your feedback and sorry about that. Try this: https://rownd.io/hacker-news . We'll add a button to the main site! We are in the transition from "do things that don't scale" to "scale
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by rgthelen 5y ago
> "I just added X new customers". Pure gold Daniel! Spot on. Makes absolute sense!
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Sorry about that experience. You can also check out https://rownd.io for more info. We wanted to show off a new feature called "unverified", but if you are having this reaction, others probably are as well. Thank you
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by rgthelen 5y ago
Really appreciate this! Thank you!

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