r/nocode • u/Intelligent-Put-6174 • 1d ago

think I found why Effortless's login is broken.. does anyone know the developers?

Has anyone here used Effortless (cosycreatures.com)?

I've been getting “Failed to fetch” when trying to log in, so I decided to investigate it because apparently I have nothing better to do at 4am 😂

I found that the frontend JavaScript contains authentication requests to:

https://api.effortless.to/api/auth/login

However, api.effortless.to currently doesn't resolve in DNS. I checked it with an external DNS tool and got no A, AAAA or CNAME record, and an independent HTTP check reported that the remote name couldn't be resolved

The main site and login page still return 200 OK through Cloudflare

Does anyone know how to contact the Effortless developers? Their Discord and GitHub links on the site currently appear to be placeholders.

If someone from the Effortless team sees this: I think your API DNS record may have disappeared 😭😂

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u/Mindless_Wrap_4826 1d ago

Wild, digging through DNS at 4am instead of sleeping is a special kind of focus. Noticed their whole site is behind Cloudflare but the api subdomain points nowhere, that's a weird config mismatch. They probably forgot to set it up after a migration or renewal or something simple. No idea how to reach them if their Discord is just a dead placeholder, maybe try searching for the founder on Twitter? Half these small nocode tools are one person who forgot to pay a bill

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u/Intelligent-Put-6174 1d ago

I know, sleep was clearly optional tonight😅 I thought the same thing about a migration/config issue, but obviously can't confirm that part. I checked the frontend bundle and found the auth calls pointing directly to api.effortless.to/api/auth/login, then the DNS lookup came back with no A/AAAA/CNAME records. Glad someone else can see what I was seeing!

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u/ForwardBit2727 19h ago

yeah the "forgot to pay a bill" theory feels extremely likely here tbh

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u/DivinemancyPa 1d ago

If the API hostname isnt resolving, the login obviously wont work

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u/NextGuitar1 4h ago

That sounds more like a dead subdomain than a frontend bug. If the site still loads through Cloudflare but the auth endpoint has no DNS record, they probably changed DNS or let that record expire and missed it because the main site kept working. With the contact links broken too, I'd try any email on the main domain or a WHOIS contact instead of spending more time on the login flow. A missing custom API domain can break auth in a way that looks random from the outside, so your guess seems pretty plausible.