Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to your static site

Re:Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to ... by guu on Saturday January 25, 2020 @04:42PM (#22148800)

Are you thinking of user-to-user sharing (ex: daniel shares his list with justin) or something more global?

To give an example: The indiehackers website uses firebase as its data store. It's a blog/forum, so posts and comments made by individual users can be seen by people who don't have accounts. Is this a use case you plan to support in the future?

If not, the potential use cases are much narrower than firebase. Not necessarily a bad thing but I'm just trying to understand the product.

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Re:Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to ... by j-berman on Saturday January 25, 2020 @04:48PM (#22148831)

User-to-user sharing (because data created using Userbase is private)

Edit: technically you could do something hacky like share the database with a user who broadcasts the data somewhere. But I don't think you'd want to use Userbase if you want to store lots of data that anyone would be able to see

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Re:Show HN: Userbase – Add user accounts and persistence to ... by j-berman on Sunday January 26, 2020 @06:00AM (#22151507)

Adding on to this, Firebase isn't structured to support end-to-end encryption by default. Our client-server architecture is built and optimized for that intention. I don't think you could build a performant end-to-end encrypted application with Firebase very easily. Userbase fills that role with a super simple SDK

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