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Open Source•Developer Tools•Development

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Zai Shi

Stack Auth

Maker

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Hi Product Hunt, Zai & Konsti here! We built many web projects before, and the most annoying part of starting a project is spending countless hours battling with authentication, user management, account settings, and RBAC. None of the open-source solutions have the developer-friendliness and the feature set we'd wish for. We want to solve this problem for everyone with a great all-in-one open-source and self-hostable platform. We have paid managed hosting available on our platform, which will give you the same experience as Clerk or other services. However, we build trust with our customers and avoid vendor lock-in by keeping all infrastructure 100% open-source. If you like what we're building, please try it out in your project! Also, join our Discord to build great things together!

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11mo ago

Konstantin Wohlwend

Stack Auth

Maker

Konsti here, thanks for all the comments! Lots of people are asking about our competitors, so here's how we're different. Think of a specific competitor and ask yourself: - Are they open-source? - Are they developer-friendly, even for startups and indie devs, letting you get started & scale in minutes? - Besides authentication, do they also do authorization and user management, with features that you'll inevitably need (such as; multi-tenancy with teams/organizations, role-based access control, password authentication, user dashboard, analytics integration)? How many YESes did you get? The answer is YES for Stack Auth on all three.

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11mo ago

Joseph Abraham

SaaS for Greater Good

@fomalhaut Well done on the launch! Wishing you continued success and growth. How did you come up with the idea?

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11mo ago

Zai Shi

Stack Auth

Maker

@kjosephabraham Thanks! We've both built startups before, and we found that one of the most painful aspects in the early stages was building things that weren't directly related to our core business. We spent a lot of time on tasks like authentication, user management, database migration, analytics, and billing. Our long-term vision is to solve all these problems with a five-minute setup and manage everything within one dashboard. We decided to tackle this from the most core and painful problem, which authentication!

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11mo ago

Porush Puri

@fomalhaut Wow, this looks super promising, will use it in my next project. Congratulations on the launch!

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11mo ago

Michal Wanto

@fomalhaut Hey Zai Shi, congrats on the launch! However, we also need a better version of auth for mobile development, especially for Expo projects

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11mo ago

Robert

Congratulations on the launch, Zai & Konsti! This looks like a fantastic tool for developers. Can the sign-in pages and account settings be customized without using the Stack components? If so, how much flexibility do developers have in tailoring these pages to fit their specific design requirements?

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11mo ago

Zai Shi

Stack Auth

Maker

@thomas80 Yes, everything on the frontend is 100% customizable! You can call functions like stackApp.signInWithOAuth("google") when you click on your own OAuth login button. Stack components are just prebuilt components using these low-level functions

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11mo ago

Archer

Are there specific tools or examples available to help new users get to grips with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and user management within Stack Auth?

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11mo ago

Zai Shi

Stack Auth

Maker

@archer1 Our documentation has some examples in the "permissions" section, otherwise there is also an /examples/demo project in the GitHub repo

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11mo ago