sevenadrian

A few reasons, but one of the primary ones is there needed to be a way to securely store the session or identity of the user on the client side. There are a few ways of doing this on the client; storing it in memory, using browser web storage, etc. But the most secure way (for users using a browser) is storing the data securely in a HTTP only cookie, and it's this aspect of the responsibilities that this library looks to handle.

hmm, yes, I guess at some level user data is stored in a database somewhere.

What is trying to be communicated here is you don't need to connect to a database at all. You can use an API, something in memory, etc. The library doesn't have to connect to a DB.

For example, I use Hasura a lot (a GraphQL wrapper around postgres), and this library works perfect with that, since blueauth can just do API calls.

But yes, even in that scenario it is Hasura that is communicating with a database but not blueauth.

Basically blueauth can interface with anything you can write in javascript (any type of DB, interface, etc)

Also if you'd like a bunch of free credit to try out, just let me know the first part of your user id (in /account)

Hey all, just posted this! It's still very much a work in progress but wanted to share regardless. So far I think it's an improvement in a few ways over existing APIs / Platforms out there at the moment that have similar offerings (clearbit, fullcontact, etc.).

Let me know what you think and how it can be better for you!

Thanks man!

HelloList can definitely do that (need to make that more obvious), mainly because it's just a simple platform. People sign up and promote it and such, and on the backend you get an ordered list of all the entries including info like who referred them, number of referrals, when they signed up, ordered by their rank (can dl it as a CSV too). Whether you let just the top 100 in your beta for free, give everyone who referred >3 people something, give the top 500 people a "badge", or etc., is entirely up to those building the list.

weird, was this on the example on hellolist.com, or on a list you had somewhere?

Yup, there's actually an example right on the home page right under the hero. Enter an email to sign up for "PicExample"

awesome catch, thanks man!

I was building the MVP for another product, but after seeing tons of other pre-launch startups starting to gamify their waitlist (by letting users move up the list by referring others to sign up) I decided I want to take advantage of that too so I started building that out.

Then I thought, "hell, why don't I try to actually turn this into something?"

Three-ish weeks later, HelloList.com was born.

Take a peek! Going to try to make this something that nearly anyone can use to build a waiting list, so would love to hear any feedback on how to make it more useful.