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.
@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.
@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.
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.
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