That's certainly an interesting and novel take. Did you benchmark how "good" it performs against something that has an MCP? Btw I didn't know local apps have MCPs?
Yes, local apps have MCPs. They're usually a pain to set up.
I didn't benchmark against MCPs. I might do that, but there are lots of variables at play - which software, which MCP, which model and which harness.
Lol wut? you get all of your auth data in your own db in 1 cli command. You are not tied to any on db provider. On top of that you get hundreds of auth features like oauth providers (I use it to allow users to log in via google, apple, github) and the best part it's free. Not saying Supabase and Clerk are bad, but they cost money. With better auth you pay exactly $0 for all of this.
I’ve looked at these auth providers many times over the years and I just don’t get the value. It takes me a couple of minutes to set up auth. Why would I want a dependency? It doesn’t help me with the hardest part which is configuring Google and Apple sign in stuff on Google and Apple. I just don’t get it.
I use better auth for a side project i'm working on. It's open source, you can pay them to manage your user/auth tables if you want or you can run it all on your own db.
Sure, I guess if I'm using a web framework that is not quite batteries included, that makes sense, but Django, ASP .NET Core, Ruby on Rails, and so many others are open source and have authentication / users / roles baked in out of the box.
I remember Laravel with Socialite [0]. Laravel is what I usually reach for Web SaaS MVP. You only need a VPS and a managed database for testing out the market and can scale a lot without increasing expenses that much..
Lol, I developed for entrepreneurs who mostly wanted a working proof of concept of their ideas. I guess now you can vibecode them with SaaS for core technical needs.
Hey :) Opened the link but see "this video is not rated" gate - if you can rate it so that not logged in users can see it would be much easier for ppl. I don't have a vimeo account for example. And why vimeo and not YT?
I had to play my video and scroll down to find that option.
My first attempt at YouTube failed to upload the video so I used vimeo. I also tried Videy which also didn't work. I believe sometimes newer apps tend to keep things simple and easy so I like them over bloated mainstream ones.
That's a great idea! Checked out the website - looks good :) Why do you only limit yourself to title images though? I imagine whatever model you are using can also generate beautiful product pictures?
Stick to patterns which were painful before. For example, I recently refactored a project written in TS to use better-result instead of throwing errors. Without Claude writing out all of that boilerplate I could not have imagined transitioning to this. Right now the cost of "doing it right" is decreased so much there is no reason to ship slop / poorly thought out code.
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