Launch HN: Arengu (YC S21) – Frictionless Signup Flows

But i know people trying to outsource everything whats possible, i see this trend getting stronger and stronger, so perhaps it can get a lot of clients. Good luck anyways.

The onboarding was smooth, and made it clear how feature-filled the debugging experience is.

Don't have a use case for this personally right now (iOS / Android apps only, native code), but will definitely use in the future. Congrats on the launch.

Really a tremendous accomplishment. I hope you guys are proud as hell of what you've built.

A feature request: I would absolutely love to have something like Arengu that also handles the rest of the boilerplate SaaS stack. Key is a branded user portal with a billing area (I should just give it my Stripe keys and let it generate the screens); user/team management, etc.

To give an example: if you click your avatar in the top right of a Github page, I would like to outsource all of those pages. (How would that work? I would provide APIs and then have some kind of page builder in Arengu that would display the data & handle user input. So for example if I were Github, I would have an endpoint that would return JSON for the repositories for a user, and Arengu would display github.com/$USER?tab=repositories. There could also be API contracts where my API essentially returns the HTML for part of the page.) Basically -- use your front-end builder to reduce the front-end code I need to write & manage.

That said, this is a desperately needed product for small teams. Was considering building something like this as a SaaS for the last couple years. A small team I was apart of spent multiple sprints mulling over onboarding tweaks for our users involving all these components.

If it's not already a feature or being worked on, please consider making template Q&A flows that can plop users in a bucket. It's often asked for right before or after signup and is a relatively big lift to keep building over and over.

Looks great and good luck!

Of course this is an edge case, your company can't reasonably be expected to cater for how people on the internet decide to filter content on their personal networks, and the majority of people won't run their own DNS servers & take the same slash and burn approach to whitelisting as I do, so I understand if it's seen as a non-issue or rare edge-case.

I'm guessing the SDK URL got flagged on the list because the form builder has been used by some websites for various marketing related purposes triggering a blacklist maintainer to blanket ban the URL (I've had to whitelist common things like cdnjs for similar reasons).

That's fine for marketing forms / flows, but I'm thinking since a website or application's login is more of a primary / critical feature it would make me think twice about using the service if I were designing an app aimed toward tech & privacy savvy developers.

As a workaround, does your service still work if developers decide to host the needed assets on their infrastructure or proxy them under their own DNS? Could be a way around it.

Anyway the feature looks interesting, login flows are far from trivial once you get into the area of social login, OTP, device authentication, 2FA etc. I'm hammering out the architecture of a SaaS service at the moment so I can appreciate the niche you're trying to hit, good luck with the launch and hopefully the above feedback is useful.

One immediate thought for a feature (you may or may not have already thought of this...). A picklist of options for "how did you hear about us?"

That will help marketing and sales to get more granularity than the usual 80/20 split between "referral" and "direct" in Google Analytics. With all the brand-building efforts like newsletters, videos and podcasts going on - traditional "last touch attribution" tools like Hubspot or even multi-touch tools like Bizible don't capture brand.

On the pricing page (/pricing), could you support USD? Also, what are "Gold Integrations"? There doesn't appear to be an explanation but it's listed for every pricing tier.