Account baselining, do you know what it means?
Hi, awesome indie hackers. I am working on https://baseline.dev - a service which allows teams / organizations to audit/baseline who has access to the different SaaS services they are using.
I would super appreciate any feedback on the current version of the landing page, especially if it is even clear what Baseline is doing :) Hope everybody stays safe in this really weird time!
that's pretty cool. watched the video, clear as day. only question is what's with the CLI, is this going to be cloud also?
Hi Krister, thanks for having a look, much appreciated!!
About the CLI, I am not sure yet. Here is how I got where I am right now.
When I started working on Baseline I thought about:
For 1. I concluded that I don't really need a database and all the classic SaaS stuff if I just move the initial version to a local client. This is the CLI right now. The CLI calls a stateless API which does all the magic and returns it to the client.
For 2. This might have come before 1. The solution was to store those keys and encrypt them on the computer of the user with a passphrase picked by the user. So if the user would lose the computer or someone would gain access they are safe. Baseline doesn't have access to those at all and only has them in memory during the baseline operation when they are forwarded to the SaaS service.
All that said, I am not really sure the CLI is the long-term approach. But I want to find something where the access keys are secure. Even the idea of storing them in a shared database seems terrible and that is what most services do. If you have any ideas, that would be amazing!
Apologies for the long reply!! Hope you have a good day!!
Nikolai
that makes a lot of sense actually. Either way you've got more than just an MVP. Now all you got to do is sell! :D
:D Now the hard work begins indeed!!
haha yeah. that's where I am. My product isn't as polished as yours, but it works. And I'm unable to get anyone interested. What a pain. Been here so many times and yet, here I am again :)
I'll document any learnings I make on this journey, maybe some can apply to you (if they work :))
cool. i'm posting here also.