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Thanks for trying it out! Will definitely try to make that req clearer :)

If you’d like to discuss on Twitter, here’s my tweet announcing The.Rip yesterday :)

https://twitter.com/benzguo/status/1294832715049517058?s=21

Hmm, did you sign in first? Just ran a username example: https://the.rip/@benzguo-likes-1284546444796412000

Hi! Author here. I built this because I wanted to be able to unroll Twitter threads to markdown (for import into tools like Roam & Obsidian). It was also a great chance to try Twitter’s new search API released this week.

I used NextJS, plus several great OSS projects of note:

https://next-auth.js.org/

https://github.com/draftbit/twitter-lite

https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor

https://github.com/system-ui/theme-ui

Sharing a concrete example: 4 friends of mine are in a moderately successful band in LA. They have 1M monthly listeners on Spotify, and their top track has 17M plays. Spotify sends them ~$2k/month, which isn’t enough for 4 to live on (they live together, and record with their own equipment in a rented house). To make ends meet, they play live shows and tour (which isn’t an option anymore). Support your favorite bands by buying merch.

Thank you so much for this thoughtful comment! I really appreciate your feedback, and the encouragement :)

I totally agree with you that it feels like this product currently sits in a weird mushy middle – not a great fit for coders on HN, and not differentiated enough in the crowded no-code-storefront space.

I’ll keep iterating!

Thanks for this comment, it was really encouraging!

Do you know if there’s a community where these Insta founders hang out? I’d love to chat with you more if you’re open to it, I’m @benzguo on twitter!

Yeah, I’ve been thinking that too. Low-code definitely feels like the space for this, and I just need to go find that community :)

Definitely early stages – mostly looking for feedback on the landing page / demo!

Agree that it’s hard to compete with more full-service solutions like Auth0/Firebase. Maybe there’s some variant of this, like self-hosted, that could work :)

Thanks for the feedback! This is definitely early stages – mostly looking for feedback on the product and landing page, but I’m definitely embarrassed you ran into that Firebase error! I built the admin side using Firebase auth to get started, but have been planning to move it over to Loginland...

Thanks for the feedback! Currently passwordless email confirmation is the only supported login flow, but I’m thinking about building alternatives like Twitter OAuth, or a password based flow.

Does the pricing model make this less appealing to you? Open to adjusting it!

That makes sense – I’ve had the same feeling, but was curious if there was a niche, hence this post!

Is there a price point at which you would consider using something like this?

Thanks for the polish feedback, this is helpful! Feel free to get in touch on Twitter: I’m @benzguo

I’ll try to make this clearer, thanks for the feedback! You’d pay both, the Loginland fee on top of Stripe’s rate. (This is a pretty common pricing model for platforms – BuyMeACoffee has a similar 5% rate on top of Stripe). Open to suggestions! :)

Thanks for the feedback! I’m open to changing the fee – is there a % fee you would be more comfortable with?

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whoa, soundslice is cool! would love to talk about integration :)

Yes please! https://github.com/benzguo/bayan fair warning, I'm a total js noob

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glitch hamlet

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Typo in your second sentence = I stop reading

Typing practice seems like a waste of time unless you're actually bad at typing. Learn vim, use autocompletion, and write real code.

Cool! This was my approach to form validation UX on iOS: https://github.com/benzguo/BZGFormField