Ask HN: Only social logins or hybrid at start?

2 points·arisAlexis··7 comments

Hi,

I am building a web startup and I am wondering if it is worthy to include my own registration system or just go with social logins and after we have many users then maybe invite the rare people without social accounts? Is there anything else that would make me include an own login?

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I think it's fine to do social login, as long you only request the most basic of permissions: email address, name. If I see "post on my behalf" from a company I don't already trust, I'm not giving you permission (even if you say "oh, I never will").

It depends on the type of site that you have.

Some mainstream audiences love how convenient they are and some more technical audiences despise them.

Personally I hate them, but I can sometimes see a business case for making them available.

Rare shmare. I do frequent social networks, but I hesitate to give them the keys to everything I do online, for various reasons (hello there, LinkedIn password list!)

At least the third party should ask for "Post on my behalf". Asking for Readonly access to only strictly required data is more convincing

If you can launch without building X, launch without building X.

But if not building X can fail you then build X.

There are an infinite number of things that can cause a startup to fail. After eliminating one of them there are still an infinite number of ways for a start to fail.

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