The thrill of launch

One thing I'm not quite clear on with regards to OpenID is how I can be sure that my identity provider can't log in to my sites. I feel like I must not understand OpenID correctly. It seems to me that all the power rests in the hands of the identity provider; that is, the users have to trust the provider both to safeguard their data and to not use it in the way the user did not want (government gets warrant and checks out user's personal activity by asking provider to log them in).

Am I totally missing something here? I looked all over Clickpass's site, and while not having to login everywhere is convenient, I'd much rather know that I'm the only one who has the credentials to authenticate as myself. If I'm wrong, I think something should be said on the Clickpass site about how users can know their information is still in their own hands. If I'm right, I don't think I could ever get on board with a site like Clickpass, and I don't understand how others can do it so readily.

While people are reading this, just wanted to say that I haved fixed it so you can be logged out of Clickpass and still use the Clickpass dropdown to log in to news.yc with your own OpenID.

We are going to do some stuff to make that even easier going forward. Let me know if you have any issues with that...

Great post! That rush of adrenaline probably already makes it worth creating your own startup.

Nice tips, certainly some things to consider when launching. But in the end you can probably never be prepared enough. But where would the fun be?

I was thrilled last night when I got clickpass integrated into ourdoings.com. I still have some work to do to be friendly to OpenID in general.

I'm a little bummed I won't be able to watch them live when they go on justin.tv today. Hopefully I'll be able to catch the recording later.

this was one of the coolest stories I've read in a long time, very fun and nicely done.