is there such a thing as a Singly username?

[mARK bLOORE]

Consider this end-user scenario:
Joe starts using the Singly-powered AppOne, and gives it his username and password for each 12 different services.
Later, Joe starts using the Singly-powered AppTwo.  Can he give it his Singly username and password and say "connect me", or does he have to painstakingly enter all 12 usernames and passwords again?
If the latter, might not Joe start to think that Singly isn't such a great feature to see in an app he's thinking of buying?

[Kristján Pétursson]

Good scenario, Mark, and one that's often on our minds. Right now, user accounts are unique to an application, so this sort of crossover can't happen. Luckily (in one regard), Joe is probably totally unaware that Singly is there on the backend - he's logging in to AppOne or AppTwo, and their data infrastructure is invisible/irrelevant to him. So for most everybody out there, the apps look like the internet as usual and the promise of a more connected system won't affect their purchase decision.

That said, we do think that sort of shared login—or really a single, accessible repository for your information—is important to the future of data exchange. It's a big part of why The Locker Project was created, and if not for some interesting policy hurdles we ran into, it would probably be playing a larger part right now. We still have the vision, but it's going to take some work and fighting to crack data out of the current, relatively walled ecosystem. The huge expansion we've seen in available APIs and I-own-my-data philosophy is promising.

In short, not yet, but soon, we hope.

Kristján

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[Jeremie Miller]

There's a chance to build some utilities like that in the future for sure :)

The important thing right now though is that any auth is between a person and the app directly, using the apps keys (everything is oauth or similar so there's no passwords), which is an important aspect of privacy.

Love this kind of feedback though, it's great to know where the frustrations are and what to plan for!

Jer

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