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bsid

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About bsid

CTO at Clerk

All of user management, not just authentication https://clerk.dev

braden@clerk.dev

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    Comment #47082416

    yes, definitely make a clerk production instance asap. it's a bit of pain to migrate development users to production users

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    Comment #40718348

    We actually have a huge initiative at Clerk with what we're calling "Elements" which gives a you "radix-like" way to build up the UIs, for significantly easier customization - espe…

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    Comment #40491836

    Also, IAM usually means SSO solutions for employees i.e. things like Okta/OneLogin.. CIAM usually means external facing authN/authZ.. (customer identity and access mgmt) There's so…

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    Comment #40078490

    Yeah coming up with our pricing model was and still is challenging. We're due for a revamp. As with most things in tech, all of these features require a ton of time to build / main…

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    Comment #40034138

    Hey, (clerk founder) why do you think Clerk's pricing is predatory? Our goal is to continually lower prices and be as affordable as possible. Outside the free plan, it starts at $2…

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    Comment #35187788

    update: user error on my part, thanks for the help!

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    Comment #35187374

    Connected my database and it's not showing anything, also no error messages in the UI, some 406s in the dev console. would be interested to try it out

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    Comment #33827181

    yup, I'm in the process of updating this :)

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    Comment #33819500

    Clerk | Many Roles (see below) | Remote US, Remote EU, SF, Denver | Full-time -- https://clerk.dev -- Clerk is building developer tools for the next generation of applications. We'…

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    Comment #33699586

    Why is this different than the massive sports-merchandising part of a teams business, where they sell more stuff depending on whether they win or lose? I imagine they'd want to bet…

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    Comment #32253942

    We're working on the UIs portion over at Clerk ( https://www.clerk.dev ), however, we're not going all in on permission-ing and just giving folks enough "ABAC" so that we can actua…

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    Comment #32085305

    At Clerk, ( https://clerk.dev , auth SaaS) we did a ton of work to get magic links to play nice with multiple devices, it's certainly a pain, and there's tradeoffs. The crux of it …

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    Comment #29466917

    $150+ to own one for a year?

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    Comment #29337522

    didn't mean to talk bad... nothing but respect for everyone involved in this project. my comment was very hasty -- and you're right I should have disclosed up front that I'm workin…

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    Comment #29333342

    Ahh, that makes sense, cool! Yes, I am the CTO @ Clerk, and we do have per-user pricing right now, however, that doesn't mean we like it. It's something we've struggled with - how …

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    Comment #29330959

    MAU pricing is terrible! love this idea. Heads up, I don't quite get this from your pricing page at all right now.. It says "First 900 free" and "First 100 free" without any indica…

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    Comment #29330496

    checkout - https://clerk.dev/solutions/nextjs-authentication , the middleware works like you're talking about. It's lighter weight than ory, i think. I've struggled to figure out h…

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    Comment #29245657

    you really need a way for people to get in if they forgot their password...

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    Comment #29243573

    Yup. So many people mess this up, it's infuriating. U.S. banks are the worst.

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    Comment #29087420

    Question: What happens when you're reading? For me, my inner voice kind of repeats it, if that make sense. Can't wrap my head around what "understanding" would be without that lol.…

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    Comment #29067991

    Clerk.dev is a seed stage company, looking for some key hires to help build the “Stripe for Auth”. Founded by MIT/WashU grads. Backed by by Top Tier VCs (S28, Fathom, SPC) and DX e…

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    Comment #28091310

    If you'd rather use a service to help identify user's location && advanced proxy detection (plus more advanced user management stuff, I'd love to chat about it with you, let me kno…

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    Comment #27989445

    It's hard to build alll those things you mentioned in a deep enough fashion to make it something people would use (Which is where I think this template lands). Entire companies are…