[onemandevteam]

Giving up for today. I think I reached a SMTP email limit and that's causing failures elsewhere related to TCP connections. I'll look into it tomorrow. Thank you for all the feedback!

There were 5000+ successful logins! I think I need a better SMTP email provider and a way to make sure a failure doesn't crash everything else.

[onemandevteam]

Decided to disable email in code and try again. Not too optimistic but we'll see. Signups will fail, logins might still work if everything is cached.

[onemandevteam]

Root cause of the issues: Trying to connect to an SMTP service to send OTP's that began to block me after "suspicious activity".

[albertgoeswoof]

Pro tip: have 2-3 providers and make sure you can quickly switch between them

[dewey]

And that's why many indie projects fail before they start because people think they have to do something like this and build for scale before launch day :P

[mrsilencedogood]

Love the hustle!!! Consider this a successful HN launch my dude. There are far worse fates than the hug of death.