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by r2sk5t 1369 days ago
Congrats! Whether it's Notion, Google Docs/Sheet/Slides, Coda, Figma, Adobe Cloud, iCloud, Slack, Google Drive, One Drive, etc. the issue for me is content management and SSO. There is a high bar to get anointed to manage content inside a company/team.

For example, we use Office 365 and OneDrive for file management. But, I prefer Keynote over PowerPoint. Saving Keynote to OneDrive folders works perfectly fine. Of course that means anyone who wants to edit my documents needs OneDrive and Keynote, but that's reasonable for our team.

To use Decipad, Notion, Coda, Google Docs etc. We would need a way to manage the documents in OneDrive, an authentication mechanism so that the documents can be open and edited from OneDrive. Whether it's OneDrive, Box, DropBox, or GDrive my issue might be the same for others.

Just rewrite the software to run on Mac & Windows and save documents as files, and then we would give it a try :-)
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Terretta 1369 days ago
Or at least the SSO + a full audit trail.
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r2sk5t 1368 days ago
Good point. We would have no interest in paying for or managing SSO. Sorry for not being articulate.

My point is that since Decipad is not a client app that creates documents on the file system, my recommendation would be to integrate with the Office 365 ecosystem to gain SSO with Office 365 so that our users could easily navigate to Decipad. For us, that would be table stakes.

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sbierwagen 1369 days ago
>SSO

So you're looking to pay $1000 per user per year?

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Terretta 1368 days ago
This up-pricing is so short sighted. Offering SSO is a whole user creds mangement flow you don't have to write, secrets you don't have to store, and password theft PR you don't have to have.

So it's cheaper, less risk, and reduces friction to join.

If I'm doing a professional SaaS today, I don't store passwords. I use login with (Microsoft, Google, Apple with a user flow for FIDO Alliance passwordless) and SSO. If consumer, I'd use those and add Facebook. Gaming, Discord. Etc.

It should look like this:

https://www.xsplit.com/user/auth

Companies not offering the Sign in with Apple may be just mad they might not get an email address they can correlate:

https://zapier.com/app/login

Now that Apple launched free MDM (Apple Business Essentials) and corporate Apple IDs, expect more apple accounts.

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