Add superior authentication to your website
The current reality of authentication online personally irritates me, particularly now I am convinced that better options are not just possible, but viable and in demand.
Back in March we heard from Y Combinator that our application was successful, our interview was sound and that we were accepted into YC's Summer 2020 batch.
Demo day is 5 days away and we can now (at last) announce YC's investment in the open. We are now focussed on our new product Plum Mail.
Plum Mail makes use of our passwordless authentication technology and actually it's central to Plum Mail's vision.
Please check out Plum Mail and hop on the waitlist which, I am delighted to say, is growing nicely!
YC has been an incredible journey. This was the first fully remote batch at YC and the partners have been fab to work with. We have both learned so much and met some brilliant people.
We are more than happy to chat about applications and interviews with anyone applying to YC's next batch. Ask us anything, if we can answer it, we will.
Richard and Peter
##Do you onboard users?
Eliminate the friction from your onboarding with DID.app's magic invite links.
If you have a waitlist, onboard teams or your users collaborate in their accounts we can help.
We have a limited number of trials ready to use DID.app's new magic invite links.
Check out the magic invite links docs here and email me personally if you'd like to get started: [email protected]
##Magic Invite Link Use Cases
###Waitlists
One click sign up via email. What better way to supercharge your conversion rate from waitlist to user?
Magic invite links are single use and both 'sign up' and 'sign in' the user.
###Team Members
Your colleague signs up to example,com and wants all their co-workers to jump onboard.
Well now they can in just one click.
Use DID.app's API to automate magic invite links.
We're working with an b2b ecommerce app in Brazil to onboard team members.
###Collaboration & review
User A wants to share their work with User B but User B isn't registered in your application yet.
With a magic invite link, User B is not only signed up with one click but is automatically sent to the page of content being shared.
We're working with a VC engagement platform in California to improve collaboration and review with magic invite links.
###Family and Friends
Magic invite links are a great way to onboard family and friends to your application for easy sharing.
We're working with an electric car charging service in India to implement easy family sharing.
https://did.app/docs/single-page-app-integration/
We added support for PKCE and other niceties to make using DID .app in a Single Page App (SPA) that much easier.
This should make it that much easier to add passwordless authentication to your rich client apps.
They say you should always listen to and engage with your users and I couldn't agree with the sentiment more. We launched a public roadmap (https://did.nolt.io/) a while back and the response has been fantastic.
The roadmap has ten features on now that are all genuinely requested by our users and today we are very pleased to announce that we've taken a very popular feature request (with 7 upvotes) all the way from idea through scoping to shipment.
I think this is a really important milestone to mark. Shipping features happens all the time (lord knows we got a whole lotta ideas for new features!) but listening to and acting on feedback from your users seems much more valuable and significant.
The feature we shipped is the ability to customise authentication pages for your apps: https://did.app/docs/customise-authentication-pages/
If you haven't already set up a roadmap, do. Initially I was worried about revealing our feature ideas (perhaps to the competition) or revealing that we have lots of feature ideas that just weren't ready yet but honestly, chatting to our users they are cool with the fact we're still building things, cool with the fact we're up front about our plans and very cool with the fact they can contribute to the features we develop.
Thank you to everyone who requested and upvoted the custom authentication pages feature.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/did-app
Today we launch on product hunt.
We have done some homework, tried to polish our message, to make the website look nice and to make the relevant information easy to come buy. Much of the most useful feedback has come from the great indie hackers community.
What we haven't done is line up hunters or anything more involved in that. In all honesty it's because we'd rather be building things and talking to customers.
Let's see if we've done enough. We would love your support and of course give you a break down of how it worked out once we know
did.app
Over the last few months we have been working hard to enable anyone building a website or app to be able to get awesome passwordless authentication done in just a few minutes.
We recently finished all the code for account creation and management. Now anyone can visit did.app and get setup in minutes.
Up to this point we have had to manually onboard users which was slow but taught us a lot in the process.
In the coming weeks we will be looking at other places to spread the word, but for today we would love a retweet.
Thanks, and I hope everyone has a lovely day.
We relaunched our web app for passwordless authentication this week. The design is trying to be a bit more fun but still serious enough for a project that you need to trust for security.
We are looking for your feedback, check out our preview page allows you so see all the pages in the webapp.
mydid.dev/preview#EnrollCredentials
It is build with svelte.js and tailwind CSS. Both of which I can highly recommend. We would be interested in hearing other people experience with either technology.
We added 10 new people to our mailing list for updates to did.app.
The most we have added in one week.
Keeping this list increasing is really useful for us as we hope to be announcing our new release soon.
The majority of our traffic came from twitter this week. Much of that because we engaged with a thread started by Troy Hunt. A big deal when it comes to talking about passwords.
Finding a suitable name (and domain) for your project is a huge challenge and one we thought we had solved until we asked this question of the amazing Indie Hacker's community:
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-bad-is-our-startups-name-a7d69c0e60
Turns out, our original name (Kno / trykno.com) is pretty terrible mainly from a pronounciation point of view.
So, after some soul searching and, of course, asking IH what you thought first (https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-is-our-new-name-did-76f2c2f017) we came up with a new name:
DID
Today we are working on re-branding our project across all its touchpoints. Hard work but hopefully it will be worthwhile in the longterm.
trykno.com launched in July 2019 so in 14 days, we've generated the same amount of traffic to our website as we managed to generate in 7 months.
Here's a challenge, have you passed the same milestone? If so, how quickly? If not, when do you expect to pass it?
Wouldn't it be great if we managed to do this every January! That would certainly represent a steep growth curve.
#gopasswordless
The current reality of authentication online personally irritates me, particularly now I am convinced that better options are not just possible, but viable and in demand.