Ask HN: Not requiring users to sign up

3 points by mikeecb 11 years ago | 1 comment

I'm building a website and want to get around the issue of requiring users to sign up/ register with a username + password combo.

A while back I read an article on HN about giving users their own domain for their social accounts and I was wondering if anyone else has implemented anything similar. The alternative is just to use sign in with Facebook / Twitter / Google etc but I want to keep it as simple as possible.

Has anyone implemented something similar?

mkremer90 11 years ago |

Hey Mike,

I've implemented Facebook, Twitter, Google and GitHub auth as well as a custom domain login at Kobra.io

It was pretty easy to set up using Firebase SimpleLogin. Overall my goal was to get as many people to try the app as possible, and then if they like it have them sign up. I didn't want to lose people that may not actually sign up but would if they tried the product, so I also allow anonymous usage of the app.

Let me know if you have any specific questions for me :)