alt Hacker NewsYeah, you definitely should have linked to that instead of a Github repo (or copied the text across to the repo readme).
The copy is still pretty focused on the Developer experience building something that uses your thing. But I can't imagine anybody choosing to use this for a product until they know for sure that the end-user experience is painless and frictionless.
I'm actually in the market for something like this. I'm building a game that could benefit from letting people store their savegames in the cloud, but I don't see any particular reason for it to be _my_ cloud. I'd rather not store user/pass information or data at my end, and I'm sure players aren't interested in making an account on my site just to play the game.
If there was something like this that was sufficiently frictionless (on the order of magnitude of going through a "Log in with Google" flow) to set up, I'd be keen to give it a shot. But if there was anything user facing that felt "Open Source", that would kill the idea dead.
Do you have an example of a user setup flow?
the login flow is quite straight forward and much of the expirience depends on the OpenID connect provider the backend is trusting.
You can go to https://monsterwriter.com/ and see the system in action. When you click on login you will be redirected to a login provider, which in case of MonsterWriter is auth0. But it could also be an open source (e.g. KeyCloak) or any other commercial OIDC provider. Then it is up to the OIDC provider to display the "login with Google"
The hello world example on the website provides a dummy OIDC provider, If you try out the hello world example I guess this is the best place to really get an idea: https://linkedrecords.com/getting-started/