Userbase is the easiest way to add user accounts and data persistence to your static site. All Userbase features are accessible through a very simple JavaScript SDK, directly from the browser. No backend necessary.
Hey PH! 👋
Userbase is the easiest way to add user accounts and data persistence to your static site.
After almost 9 months of preparation, Userbase is ready for use, and I would be honored to have you try it.
Some highlight features:
- Super simple JavaScript SDK.
- User data is end-to-end encrypted.
- Predictable pricing. (You won't need a cost calculator.)
- 100% open source, MIT licensed.
The fastest way to get started is to create a free admin account and follow our Quickstart guide. And if you have any questions, please ask me anything.
Thank you! 🙏
@dvassallo From what I see, this product has great potential. Only thing I'm not too sure about is pricing: why can't we *grow* together?
On one hand, 49$/year is cheap; on the other, there is no decent free tier.
I'd love userbase to be a platform where I can test out small ideas (for free, Heroku style), build a userbase, and, if it goes big(-ish), or if it starts making money, upgrade to a paid plan.
I have a free Heroku app at the moment that just is starting to get revenue. About time I upgrade to the 7$/month (read: 84$/year) plan.
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@dvassallo@ronyfadel I actually like the fact that they immediately ask for money. If you want to try it out, you can self-host it.
I feel we all have been burned too many times by startups that have a free tier but charge way too much money after a while because they ran out of capital.
I was working on a privacy-first app when I discovered this product that @dvassallo was building. I loved the idea of being able to build an application with user authentication and an end-to-end encrypted data store without having to write or host a single line of backend code.
The brilliance of this product is its simplicity. Daniel is a deep thinker (follow him on Twitter if you don't already) and was able to take two concepts fundamental to building an application, authentication and state, and distill them into a small, 10-function SDK. The end result is that you can now build an incredibly rich application in a single static HTML page. Incredible!
I also want to mention that I had the opportunity to help Daniel and the Userbase team a bit on the product and can't speak highly enough about their approach. I've seen plenty of smart people write great software but never have I seen such clarity of thought. No buzzwords or smoke and mirrors here, just a simple, built-from-first-principles service that can help you build great things.
@dvassallo This is a fantastic product. Client side apps are becoming more common but it always feels like the auth is a pain to implement. This is an elegant solution to an issue every dev runs into.
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With the complexity of GDPR compliance, the Userbase team hit the nail on the head with this server-less product. I can’t wait to give this a go!
@ridderingand_ As long as you have the ability to put some JavaScript on the page, this will work. Webflow's custom code feature allows that. I'm looking forward to try a demo on Webflow once I get some free time.
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What are the advantages of this over Auth0 or Firebase Auth? Less complex to implement?
@bradledford Mainly, simplicity, end-to-end encryption, and everything being 100% open source (backend + SDK).
In a next release, we'll allow exporting all data to a self-hosted Userbase backend to allow people who outgrow us the ability to run this themselves fully in their control.
This is fantastic (cheers to the makers!)
I've been playing with it for a few hours. With Userbase and Svelte, I built a rudimentary version of an app idea I've had for a few years now. Userbase is insanely fast to build on.
Ran into no major issues – this thing is starting off quite strong. Usually these kinds of things launch with a few major gaps.
I absolutely love that everything is end-to-end encrypted. I tend to build stuff in the personal information management space, and being able to guarantee that no one can read users' PI is huge. The lack of this feature is why I have played with but ultimately avoided all other BaaS offerings.
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