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I wanted to start using this but I can't since I can't use any email/password combination I want. By requiring an existing account from Google/GitHub/Discord you are just contributing to corporate-owned dystopia.

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i know, but im scared to own our own auth, when there's money involved... too cheap to pay for a service. So we lean on the back of the giants for now.

If it helps, there's really no reason to ever log into our site after you get an API Key. I guess until you want to make another api key

So I said, OK, let me open a Discord account, just to be able to access your service. How hard can it be, right? Wrong. Got stuck in a "Wait, are you a robot?" loop, doing dozens of captchas, and in the end had to close the browser tab. Broken piece of crap.

Well, are you a robot?

Ok well I need a way to securely give you an API key for you to try it out but I don't really want to post it on HN so I'm open to ideas lol

I am definitely not a robot. I have aches in several parts of my body which are giving me painful reminders it's all flesh and blood.

I'll try opening a dedicated Github account next. Fingers crossed.

lmao dont hurt yourself

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