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Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

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Re: Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

#51
Would love to see some code examples on the homepage.

When I did find some code, using "recipe" and "recipeList" in your packages and examples was confusing. At first I thought the example code was a recipe app as the hello world.

What exactly is a "recipe" in the context of supertokens?

Re: Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

#53

I would absolutely consider this once email verification exists for new accounts. But not until then. It looks like a good feature set and yes, I would love to use a solution from someone who focuses on auth vs. rolling my own. I do think your documentation could be expanded. You have some examples of how to use it with Netlify, but I'd love to see example apps for other cloud providers as well (Heroku, in my case.)…

Firebase Auth. One and done.

Re: Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

#54
post #32

For anyone else wondering: the frontend depends on NodeJS and the backend is Java. Ooof.

I came here to question exactly that.

> Note: Login is currently available only for Nodejs. Other tech stacks will be supported soon

That's a very very odd combination.

Re: Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

#55

I'm just in the process of setting up our Auth system now with cognito. It sure is painful! Looks like you guys have everything I need except social login.

We're building email verification and social login at the moment and would love to have it ready in time for you. When do you plan to launch your product by?

Re: Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

#57
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the valuable suggestions! Email verification is next on our list of features. We plan on providing an "active" method which requires you to verify the email to sign up, and one "passive" method which reminds you to verify the email from time to time post sign up (similar to many social networking sites).

If email (or another mode of ) verification was added I'd be entirely on board for my next project (still in planning stage)

Thank you MH15! Its clearly top of the list for many people and it will be out before you need to build auth for your next project :)

Re: Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

#58
Reminds me of when I was working at the exact same kind of startup and then AWS Cognito got SAML support. I'm not exactly sure what that startup's business model actually was or what yours could be, they got acquihired and enough to pay back the VCs though.

Auth really didn't get better since then?

Re: Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

#59
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the valuable suggestions! Email verification is next on our list of features. We plan on providing an "active" method which requires you to verify the email to sign up, and one "passive" method which reminds you to verify the email from time to time post sign up (similar to many social networking sites).

For what it's worth I think email verification functionality would make me more keen to use a service like this!

Thats worth a lot! Would you mind sharing your email ID or ping me on: advait at supertokens [dot] io? I'll drop you an email as soon as we have it built

Re: Sick of spending time on Auth, we built an open source 'Stripe for Auth'

#60
post #45

feedback after 30s of looking into this - i'm not understanding what this is without email verification and social login

For now, it's just email, password login, with forgot password flow and secure sessions. Email verification is next followed by social login :)

Thanks for your feedback

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