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Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS

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Re: Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS

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Post by tailspin2019 »

deepakprab wrote: post #7
tailspin2019 wrote: post #2

Great day for a ShowHN for an open source SSO product :) I am excited by this. However I got thoroughly confused on the introduction page of your docs: https://boxyhq.com/docs/jackson/introduction What is “Jackson” - did you rebrand at some point? I think it’s a Pulp Fiction reference(?) but I spent more time looking that (and the name “Jules Winnfield”) up to try and understand the context then I did reading/parsing…

Thank you tailspin2019, it definitely is an interesting day for an SSO product! :) It is a Pulp Fiction reference but I agree it is confusing. We'll refine the intro and the CTA on the webpage, great feedback. Our core will always be free (Apache 2.0 license) and our commercials will be based on the following models: 1) A hosted solution in the future 2) Premium features on top of our core (To ease deployment, admini…

Thanks I was looking further at GitHub and realise that Jackson and Hermes etc are your product names.

Perhaps you could mention these product names on the marketing site so there is a bit of continuity between that and GitHub/docs?

I like the humour. My instinct would be to either “own” those product names fully and use them boldly throughout, or deemphasise them in favour of your Boxy brand… :)

Looking at the Audit Logs repo introduction, I know this is a reference I’m not getting, but I’m not going to look this one up!!

> A grade 36 Bureaucrat just like Hermes Conrad. Audit logs matters that only a true bureaucrat can handle properly.

Keep up the good work. What you’re doing looks very interesting!!

Re: Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS

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Post by deepakprab »

stillbourne wrote: post #6

keycloak is an easy to use easy to deploy idp

Keycloak is indeed a great product and more feature complete.

We are currently focused on refining the SAML SSO integration. We abstract away SAML login as an OAuth 2.0 flow so that it plugs in seamlessly where a Google or Github login (for instance) would in your tech stack.

Re: Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS

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Post by sotu »

deepakprab wrote: post #8
Ocha wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SAML Jackson -> Samuel L. Jackson Pretty funny

Haha, making SSO a little less boring. :)

I worked at an SSO Vendor for years, in our early days when we were 20 people we had a whiteboard with funny SAML names.. one of my favorite was King Federate which we abbreviated as K-Fed!

Re: Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS

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Post by deepakprab »

tailspin2019 wrote: post #11
deepakprab wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you tailspin2019, it definitely is an interesting day for an SSO product! :) It is a Pulp Fiction reference but I agree it is confusing. We'll refine the intro and the CTA on the webpage, great feedback. Our core will always be free (Apache 2.0 license) and our commercials will be based on the following models: 1) A hosted solution in the future 2) Premium features on top of our core (To ease deployment, admini…

Thanks I was looking further at GitHub and realise that Jackson and Hermes etc are your product names. Perhaps you could mention these product names on the marketing site so there is a bit of continuity between that and GitHub/docs? I like the humour. My instinct would be to either “own” those product names fully and use them boldly throughout, or deemphasise them in favour of your Boxy brand… :) Looking at the Audit…

Thank you, great feedback once again. :) We definitely have some thinking and work to do with the branding of each product.

Re: Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS

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Post by deepakprab »

pimterry wrote: post #15

The 'privacy vault' feature sounds interesting - do you have any more details how that might work?

At a high level it lets you separate (and centralize) your PII data from your main infrastructure whilst providing configurable semantics on how the data should be encrypted underneath. Additionally you'd have granular control (and audit) on who/where/when (access control, geo, time) can access the vault. As an example you'd ship Social Security Numbers to the vault and configure access to it for a KYC application which can verify the SSNs as needed.

Re: Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS

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Post by deepakprab »

sotu wrote: post #13
deepakprab wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, making SSO a little less boring. :)

I worked at an SSO Vendor for years, in our early days when we were 20 people we had a whiteboard with funny SAML names.. one of my favorite was King Federate which we abbreviated as K-Fed!

Haha, love it. Hope no one was fed up! Do you recollect the other names?

Re: Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS

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Post by [deleted] »

deepakprab wrote: post #17
sotu wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked at an SSO Vendor for years, in our early days when we were 20 people we had a whiteboard with funny SAML names.. one of my favorite was King Federate which we abbreviated as K-Fed!

Haha, love it. Hope no one was fed up! Do you recollect the other names?

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Re: Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS

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Post by mushufasa »

> The main difference with Auth0 and WorkOS is that BoxyHQ is being built on an open source ethos. Our focus is to be a developer-first security platform, putting developers at the centre of our holistic approach and help them close the gap between compliance and security.

Not to detract from this project, but I'm familiar with Auth0 and WorkOS both, and I think both would say the same thing about themselves.

Re: Show HN: BoxyHQ – open-source alternative to Auth0/WorkOS

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Post by grinich »

mushufasa wrote: post #19

> The main difference with Auth0 and WorkOS is that BoxyHQ is being built on an open source ethos. Our focus is to be a developer-first security platform, putting developers at the centre of our holistic approach and help them close the gap between compliance and security. Not to detract from this project, but I'm familiar with Auth0 and WorkOS both, and I think both would say the same thing about themselves.

Yep, we even launched WorkOS via HN :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607402
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