While pretty much destructive stuff is going on in the crypto-world right now - I have been very productive in the last few days and it's time to push things forward on HIVE!

In this episode, I wanna give you an update about new features which can be used right now for any dApp out there which wants to make use of the account creation service from @hiveonboard.

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/hiveonboard/tLmtQjda-image.png)



#### Rationale
The amount of dApps available on HIVE is growing fast and in most cases developer have to make a decision on how to handle account creation for new user.

This let me think, why should each dApp reinvent the wheel when it comes to on-boarding new user to HIVE, when @hiveonboard already can handle the job pretty well?

If you ask me, developer should always focus on their use case first and care about what brings value for their user-base. Don't spend your time on stuff, that has already been solved!

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#### 1. Redirecting to your dApp after account creation
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/hiveonboard/bNLYzLWF-image.png)

If you don't wanna mess around with account creation yourself, feel free to send your new user to hiveonboard.com passing in your `redirect_url` as a query parameter.

- **Sample URL straight to Account Creation**
`https://hiveonboard.com/create-account?redirect_url=https://hive.io/eco`

- **Sample URL with URI-Encoding to Landing Page**
`https://hiveonboard.com/?redirect_url=https://hive.io/eco`

When a user successfully created his HIVE account, he will immediately send back to your dApp. In this case step 3 *"Choose your dApp"* will be skipped entirely.

For best user experience, try to redirect to your login page and make sure the user can get started at once.

**Update:**
@culgin brought up a scenario where a bad actor could use this feature to point user to a phishing website and do harm from there. In order to make user this cannot happen - I've just added a whitelist for authorized domains, which can make use of this feature. You can extent the URL with your path like `/login` or `/signin` as long as your URL starts with the value in the whitelist.

````
[
  "https://hive.blog",
  "https://peakd.com",
  "https://3speak.online",
  "https://splinterlands.io",
  "https://esteem.app",
  "https://stem.openhive.network",
  "https://steempress.io",
  "https://actifit.io",
  "https://dlease.io",
  "https://dblog.org",
  "https://brosgn.net",
  "https://brosinopoker.com"
]
````

If you run a dApp which isn't included in the whitelist right now, please contact @roomservice or do a [pull request](https://github.com/christianfuerst/hiveonboard/blob/master/src/config/whitelist.json) on the whitelist in the repo.

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#### 2. Use your own HIVE account to create user for your dApp
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/hiveonboard/GYZwK36v-image.png)

I've already covered how @hiveonboard solved the *lack of ressource credits problem* with help of a server-side software in this [post](https://peakd.com/hiveonboard/@hiveonboard/solving-the-scalability-issue-for-account-creation-no-more-hp-delegations-required) about a week ago. This time we take the idea even further.

I was asked by a dApp developer if it would be possible to bypass the account ticket load-balancer and prioritize a specific creator-api instance when a user is going to create an account.

*Sure - why not? So here we go!*

In case you run a creator-api for your very own dApp account and at least one account creation ticket available, you could just add the `creator` query parameter.

- **Sample URL straight to Account Creation**
`https://hiveonboard.com/create-account?creator=my-dapp`

- **Sample URL with URI-Encoding to Landing Page**
`https://hiveonboard.com/?creator=my-dapp`

If a user creates an account on hiveonboard.com now - the new account will be created by @my-dapp in this case and will act as the recovery account until changed by the user.  In most cases it would make perfect sense to add `redirect_url` query parameter as well.

As a friendly reminder - you can choose from two different repositories for the creator-api:
[GitHub - original version with additional features by @fbslo](https://github.com/fbslo/creator)
[GitHub - light-weight version with only api-support by @roomservice](https://github.com/christianfuerst/creator-api)

If you want to make use of this feature for your dApp, please contact @roomservice.

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#### 3. Bonus - Debug Mode for testing account creation flow
If you want to take advantage of those features or just wanna see how @hiveonboard works, you can now add the `debug_mode` query parameter and see how it goes, without actually creating an account and skip phone verification.

- **Sample URL straight to Account Creation**
`https://hiveonboard.com/create-account?debug_mode=true`

- **Sample URL with URI-Encoding to Landing Page**
`https://hiveonboard.com/?debug_mode=true`

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As always, I would love to hear your feedback and want to thank for your ongoing support!

#### Account Creation reports moved to @hiveonboard-log
If you are interested in those new accounts who joined the HIVE using @hiveonboard you can always look them up in the daily reports created. This reports moved to the blog of the account @hiveonboard-log because most of you don't wanna get spammed when following this account.

##### Quick Side-Note
I'am currently running a proposal for a HIVE ad-campaign on BRAVE browser.

If you like my work on @hiveonboard you may consider taking a look at my proposal and maybe vote for it:
[https://peakd.com/me/proposals/99](https://peakd.com/me/proposals/99)

Yours,
@roomservice