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Re:Show HN: No more 12-word seed phrases by jhunter1016 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:46AM (#20941395)
I'm one of the founders of SimpleID. As a Web3 app developer, I have first hand experience hand holding users through the complicated on-boarding process. I built Graphite, a popular dApp, using traditional Web3 auth and I just recently cracked 10K users after 2 years...

The status quo today expects users to navigate pop-ups, install extensions, and of course manage their 12-word key phrase! What I've learned is that people don't really care about decentralization. They should, but they don't — at least not yet. What people do care about is protecting their data privacy and convenience.

Therefore, we built SimpleID, a suite of developer tools that lets you easily on-board users to Web3 apps. If your users are tech-savvy and want a 100% truly decentralized solution, you're probably not going to be very interested in SimpleID. And that's OK. We want the other 98% of people to actually use dApps, and have that "ah ha" moment about what data ownership truly means.

Our solution is all about choice — we don't force you into any specific blockchain, identity, or storage provider. At login, users automatically get wallets (Ethereum, Bitcoin), DID (ENS, Blockstack), and storage (IPFS, GAIA). We also plan on supporting other protocols, and more importantly hope to get rid of passwords all together!

[1] Demo: https://www.simpleid.xyz/#examples

[2] Sign up for free: https://www.simpleid.xyz/#app

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Re:Show HN: No more 12-word seed phrases by rladd on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:21PM (#20947600)
It looks like similar functionality to Hedgehog but with hosting as a service, and extra functions added.

Or is that off base? How would you contrast your security and functional approaches to what they're doing?

https://hedgehog.audius.co/

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Re:Show HN: No more 12-word seed phrases by prabhaav on Friday September 13, 2019 @12:16AM (#20959129)
Love what hedgehog is doing! However, we are cross-platform and never expose the users master private keys to the developer. When a user logs in to an app, only the app specific key pair is delivered on auth.

Let me know if you have any other questions :)

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Re:Show HN: No more 12-word seed phrases by ohnocentral on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @02:06PM (#20942984)
It seems that your demo page (.../demo) is broken (it's 404ing with a NoSuchKey).

Anyway, I'm wondering if your solution helps users who forget their password? (Though I notice your initial comment says something about "get rid of passwords all together.)

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Re:Show HN: No more 12-word seed phrases by prabhaav on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @02:17PM (#20943095)
Great catch! I pushed the demo up to netlify and it should work now

We are working on a solution where you never have to set or remember your password

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Re:Show HN: No more 12-word seed phrases by rman666 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @12:04PM (#20941631)
I haven’t explored your technology or solution yet, but I can say that your website is great looking and clear! Keep up the good work!
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Re:Show HN: No more 12-word seed phrases by jhunter1016 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @12:18PM (#20941812)
Thanks! We went back and forth on the site design for a while. We actually just released the new website last night.
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