Meta business verification blocks indie devs from shipping multi-user apps
An indie developer building a social media post scheduler found that Meta requires formal business verification (with legal/corporate registration) before any user besides the developer can authenticate via the app, effectively blocking solo/unregistered developers from launching multi-user products on Meta's platform. He worked around it by open-sourcing and self-hosting the tool instead.
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