Show HN: Meetinghouse.cc – a place to find and be found

I don’t get how anyone can put “sign in with x” on their website

Everyone has an email — there should always be an option to sign up with email.

I agree its not ideal, and I think that will fundamentally limit it for now.

The problem (and my solution) is that x has a convenient way to get every user a name, a profile picture and a way to be linked-back to something else immediately. I like the web-ness of the web. This supports that.

From a technical standpoint, never uploading any images while still letting everyone start with a profile picture simplifies the content policing and cetainly makes storage easier. There's no R2 or S3 here. Though pfps are so small that I doubt I'd have much trouble with policing, unlike other image uploads.

On the technical side there is also no need for me to send emails, or for password handling or password recovery, which makes MVP easier. The sheer technical minimalism made creating this quite fast and let me focus on a snappy and fun ux.

So right now its a site for twitter/x users to better link with each-other. I kind of liked the idea of a different globe for different services (one for IG users, one for Substack users), but that's probably not feasible. (Substack, for one, has no oauth for it!)