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To Improve your SaaS product trial rates, Can you share your Sign up & Login APIs

Hi SaaS product owners,
We are building a saas aggregation platform that allows users to try listed saas products in OneClick.

OneClick explained - User is already signed up with the platform "X".

How OneClick trial works: -

  1. Lets say your product is listed on "Platform X".
  2. A user already signed up on "Platform X" clicks on "OneClick Trial" button adjacent to your listing.
  3. Now he is on your product page. He doesn't need to sign up or login again.
  4. Your platform gets user's data from "Platform X" through API and allows trial.

Will you be able to share your Sign up & Login API for testing purpose?

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    Question, is the idea that having an SSO for registration (with payment credentials attached ) will increase the sign-up rate?

    If so, I think it you should talk to some SaaS founders and see if you can prove/disprove your hypothesis.

    Based on @nprail's comment I don't think you need Sign Up & Login APIs to start building yet.

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    Wait... Isn't this OAuth 2?

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      Yes, it is similar to OAuth but limited to trials & free trials only. Product owners can directly give access to the demo accounts or trials if somebody opted "OneClick Trial" via Platform X. Unlike Single Sign on or OpenID, access expires once trial expires.

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        Couldn't you use an OAuth scope to give access to that "trial" account?

        I'm just saying, don't recreate a standard that already exists and is well tested by the biggest companies. Especially when it is a security standard. Instead, augment that standard. Build on top of it.

        As an application developer, I certainly would not trust an integration that recreates OAuth instead of simply using it.

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    Most of the SaaS product gives API for registered users. Very few SaaS product give API for registration itself.

    With this constrain, your aggregation platform will have very less number of listing with One Click enabled.

    Plus, it's a pain for the other SaaS product to integrate with your one click API. Hence the listing will enter your platform very slowly.

    With less number of listing, your platform will not prove useful even for buyers

    If you have thought of all these and still doing this then I will salute to your risk taking capabilities.

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    This comment was deleted a year ago.

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      I hope you can limit APIs access to certain database tables while injecting the user data.

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