"Account Kit creates a database just for your app. You can access the data at any time through a REST API. As people log into your app, this database is populated with a list of phone numbers or email addresses and Account IDs that can be used within your app. These Account IDs are unique to your app."
And it also reminds me of Parse, Facebook's other developer identity service which is being shutdown.
Since both of those services are in the process of shutting down, the cynical among you might conclude that we therefore shouldn't trust Account Kit. That's not unreasonable, but I'm excited anyway, because Persona had a lot of potential, and maybe Facebook can make it work where Mozilla failed.
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"Account Kit creates a database just for your app. You can access the data at any time through a REST API. As people log into your app, this database is populated with a list of phone numbers or email addresses and Account IDs that can be used within your app. These Account IDs are unique to your app."
It kinda reminds me of the old Mozilla Persona login thing, except it's from Facebook. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona
And it also reminds me of Parse, Facebook's other developer identity service which is being shutdown.
Since both of those services are in the process of shutting down, the cynical among you might conclude that we therefore shouldn't trust Account Kit. That's not unreasonable, but I'm excited anyway, because Persona had a lot of potential, and maybe Facebook can make it work where Mozilla failed.
Fabric offers something very similar with Digits: https://get.digits.com/