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Memberstack 2.0
in progress
Duncan Hamra
We're rebuilding Memberstack, launching a small private beta for developers, and releasing a 10x more powerful version of Memberstack.
We're rebuilding Memberstack (In progress)
We've learned so much over the last 2-years, and it's time to rebuild.
1.0 was a great MVP, but it's simply not able to scale with our team. It's going to take a few months, but Memberstack 2.0 will ship with new functionality like multiple membership plans, permissions, and more advanced APIs. In addition to those massive new features, we're going to be a 100x better place (not an exaggeration) to work on features like social login, a Paypal, OAuth, more UI's, more front-end packages for frameworks like React and Vue, and so on!
During this time we'll focus our development efforts on launching 2.0, get feedback from professionals who've been building with user auth and payments for years, and invest our non-technical time into hiring more product people.
Releasing 2.0 is our primary focus
We'll need time to replicate all of Memberstack's existing functionality in version 2.0. This sucks. But it's the only path we can see at this point if we want to get to the rest of our roadmap in a reasonable amount of time.
This sucks because most of our development resources will need to go into version 2.0. It's quite likely that you, our current customers, won't see any major feature releases until migration day. Which, should feel like feature Christmas. In the meantime, we'll continue to support all of our existing customers, fix bugs, expand the team, and find other ways to be of service.
Launching a Developer Program
We've learned a TON over the last 2ish years, and plan to incorporate all of those learnings into 2.0. We know what to build, but we also know constant feedback is essential when building a product that's usable and actually useful.
To keep things efficient while still receiving a steady stream of feedback we've decided to launch a waitlist and solicit feedback from experienced developers who A) are currently using Memberstack 1.0, or B) are industry-leaders in building web apps and websites.
Launch day & process
Learn more here.
Please leave your concerns, comments, and feedback below!
Naitik Mehta
in progress
2.0 is currently in Developer Alpha, with a goal to move into Developer Beta over the next quarter. 🎉
View more details on our rollout plan in the post below. 🙌
- We are currently in Developer Alpha, and have pushed some major updates internally with a plan to move into Developer Beta in the next quarter.
- Once we’re in Developer Beta, we will iterate on the experience for a few weeks to months (relative to initial feedback from developers) to have a rock-solid foundation before we move into a 2.0 Alpha for Webflow users.
- We are also actively hiring 2 more TypeScript engineers (links) to speed up development — would love to get your help to find the right folks quickly. 🙏
To align everyone on expectations — a public launch of the full release product will definitely not be before August. We’ll be slowly letting folks on the waitlist (Developer Program) try the Alpha & Beta versions of the product to actively collect feedback from the community.
As we’ve mentioned before, it’s really difficult for us to promise any exact timelines. In building product, we’ve learned that ‘unknown unknowns’ or trickiest cases/bugs are bound to come up in the 11th hour, so we’re being careful to not set false expectations by trying to predict a moving target.
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Naitik Mehta
Merged in a post:
Launch modals via JavaScript
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Ryan Smith
Since I'm using a client-side rendered react app, I need to call the "MemberStack.reload()" function in order for your js to properly register to elements that react adds to the page.
This works, but probably would be a lot cleaner/easier if I could just launch the modal directly via JS instead of having to reload memberstack every time react re-renders a new button that has a link to MS functionality.
Naitik Mehta
Ryan Smith totally understand — which is why we're building 2.0 that comes with a lot more support for developers building React apps.
Have you signed up here yet? :) https://www.memberstack.com/developer-program
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Stephen Mahadeo
Will MemberStack 2.0 have the ability to use JS Frameworks like Gatsby, VueJS, Angular, and React etc. ? Currently you can with MemberStack 1.0 but its sorta hacky when it comes to routing. Memberstack needs to be reloaded every time and its not a smooth process when it also some to hiding and showing gated elements or pages. Hopefully MS2.0 can address this.
Naitik Mehta
Stephen Mahadeo: Totally agree, Stephen! Good news is...yes, yes and yes! Be sure to sign up for the Developer Program if you haven't already. 😁
Meanwhile, this article has a handy tip that might help integrate 1.0 with React, Vue, etc. 🙌
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Stephen Mahadeo
Naitik Mehta: I did sign up! Can't wait for MS2.0
Naitik Mehta
Stephen Mahadeo: Us too! We're working super hard on bringing it to life. 🙏
Naitik Mehta
Merged in a post:
Improve development speed by migrating our dashboard to React.
Duncan Hamra
1) The problem/situation → Memberstack's dashboard lives inside of Webflow. This was useful when Tyler and I were a 2-man team with plenty of time for things that didn't scale. This is no longer the case!! It's impossible to scale, testing is difficult, there are workarounds for days, and most importantly it's slowing us down.
2) Why is this important → Our product roadmap and development speed have a huge impact on our users' product roadmaps.
We need to be able to release features as quickly as possible.
3) Possible solutions →
✅ Raise money to hire people
✅ Hire another backend/full stack engineer
✅ Hire a frontend engineer
🤔 Hire more engineers (leaning yes)
⏲️ Rebuild the entire front-end in React (In progress)
Naitik Mehta
in progress
2.0 is currently in Developer Alpha, with a goal to move into Developer Beta over the next quarter. 🎉
View more details on our rollout plan in the post below. 🙌
- We are currently in Developer Alpha, and have pushed some major updates internally with a plan to move into Developer Beta in the next quarter.
- Once we’re in Developer Beta, we will iterate on the experience for a few weeks to months (relative to initial feedback from developers) to have a rock-solid foundation before we move into a 2.0 Alpha for Webflow users.
- We are also actively hiring 2 more TypeScript engineers (links) to speed up development — would love to get your help to find the right folks quickly. 🙏
To align everyone on expectations — a public launch of the full release product will definitely not be before August. We’ll be slowly letting folks on the waitlist (Developer Program) try the Alpha & Beta versions of the product to actively collect feedback from the community.
As we’ve mentioned before, it’s really difficult for us to promise any exact timelines. In building product, we’ve learned that ‘unknown unknowns’ or trickiest cases/bugs are bound to come up in the 11th hour, so we’re being careful to not set false expectations by trying to predict a moving target.
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Michael Gill
The absolute most important feature we're in need of is the ability to manage memberships via the API. Can you confirm that in 2.0 we'll be able to add/edit membership plans?
Naitik Mehta
Hey Michael Gill! Do you mind creating a new post and elaborating on this? Are you referring to adding/editing the membership plans themselves via API, or adding/editing a specific member's membership plans via API?
I have some more questions but I'll save those for the post you make. 🙌
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Michael Gill
Naitik Mehta: Sure thing! Just posted under "Modifying membership plans via API". Hoping there's a solution! 🙏
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alexandre Gérard
Hello guys,
I wonder if as a MS 1.0 user, I will have to set up again all my infra and ask to my customers to resubscribe to my service?
Or, it's gonna be automatic?
Thanks
Naitik Mehta
alexandre Gérard Likely not; we'll make the process as seamless as possible and provide the support needed to make it a smooth transition for you. No concrete details yet, but we'll share more as we get closer to launch date. 🙌
Duncan Hamra
Hey all! Thank you so much for leaving comments and upvoting here.
Although I can't give an ETA yet, I'm excited to announce that we're making steady progress! Our biggest barrier has been hiring, but we just managed to bring on a technical recruiter who will help us expand the team ASAP. Despite the unexpected hiring challenges we've rolled out several foundational features into the alpha, and we're making steady progress toward replicating our entire feature set into the new version of Memberstack.
Thanks again for taking the time to ask your Q's and leave feedback. I'll reply to everyone individually asap. Thank you!
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Aletta Rulz
Duncan Hamra
I'm currently blocked by the limitations of MS v1, and I'm trying to make a case with my advisors to stick around and wait for v2. Are you able to confirm for me if MS 2.0 is likely to solve my problems?
1) You've said that multiple memberships are coming in 2.0. Will there be a limit on the number of memberships we can create or that a customer can hold? (Will this be a premium feature?) We are wanting to sell individual book titles, and we currently have 36 that people could purchase on a mix-and-match basis. Each one would enable access to that material. Is that going to be a problem?
2) Will there be a way of charging VAT/Sales tax to people from certain countries (e.g., EU) but not others? Or will there be an easy integration with another service that will do this for us? (This would probably be preferable.)
3) Can you please confirm that the login limits (by IP) will be removed, or made optional. I believe I still cannot have a whole classroom log into the website without being told to “wait a minute”. It's a small thing, but makes MS completely unsuitable for my use as kids go back to in-person teaching.
Thanks!
Duncan Hamra
Aletta Rulz: Hi Aletta 👋
1) That shouldn't be a problem. I'm confirming right now.
2) Let me see where this falls on our roadmap... I've set a reminder to follow up ASAP.
3) Yes 👍
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Evan Joyal
This should be a game changer. Memberstack is great but it is missing a lot of key functionality, especially in the way of user authorization. (building dashboards for client-worker relationships to work together)
I assume the new memberstack should make this possible? It's not possible afaik, or at least not easily.
Most important question: WHEN? When can we expect 2.0 to come out? Of course you don't know for sure but is this something that will take a few months or a year+?
Also please... PLEASE.. will there be a way to process payments in escrow between site users?
Duncan Hamra
Evan Joyal: Hey Evan!
Would you mind breaking these out into individual feature requests for me? I want to make sure I understand what you're asking for before I confirm/deny.
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Dan Guenther
Hi Duncan Hamra,
I believe Evan may be referring to Federated Authentication- Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Phone & Passwordless Login methods Not too sure about the other things.
Naitik Mehta
Dan Guenther: Thanks for pitching in, Dan. I'll leave links to individual posts here if folks want to follow along on updates on any of these:
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