{
  "id": 5122306,
  "title": "A Wrong API Key and One Missing Hyphen Almost Broke My Bible Study App After Launch",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/a-wrong-api-key-and-one-missing-hyphen-almost-broke-my-bible-study",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-02T14:29:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "HackerNoon",
    "slug": "hackernoon",
    "url": "https://hackernoon.com/a-wrong-api-key-and-one-missing-hyphen-almost-broke-my-bible-study-app-after-launch?source=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A single typo and one incorrect API key nearly brought down a Bible study app shortly after its launch. Selah was created to address three issues: a note-taking app for sermons, a shared space for a Bible study group, and an understanding of biblical passages. The developer, who built the app solo, faced two major hurdles before release: securing 12 testers and waiting for approval from Google's review process. Once approved, Selah became live, but quickly ran into two significant problems. First, new users were unable to sign up, leading to several days of troubleshooting. The root cause was a wrong API key injected from another project in Resend, the email service used for sign up confirmations. Secondly, when users attempted to sign in via Google, they got stuck on the website after authentication. The issue was a missing hyphen in the auth callback URL, which needed to be auth-callback but was instead entered as authcallback. After fixing both issues, Selah's functionality returned to normal, marking a journey from addressing personal frustrations to successfully launching a tool for a Bible study group.",
  "summary": "I built Selah to fix sermon notes and group Bible study on WhatsApp, got approved by Google on the first try, then broke sign up twice with a wrong API key.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}