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Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by samjs »

ezekg wrote: post #98
samjs wrote: post #93

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As a founder of a startup building an authorization product, I can definitely say it's super appealing to build this as a service! It makes for a an easier story around monetising it. When we were building Oso [1], we were optimising for the best thing for developers, and reached the same conclusion as you... (a) It doesn't make sense to rearchitect your app to move all the data to a separate service, and (b) it's wa…

Seriously -- this looks *awesome.* Oso's policies look almost exactly like the Pundit policies in my business's Rails app, which is awesome to see. How do you plan on monetizing, if you haven't already?

Thank you! Pundit is awesome, they did such a great job with it and we drew a lot of inspiration from it.

We're heavily focusing on adoption of the open source product right now for helping developers with application authorization. We do currently charge for things like support + consulting, but in the future we're planning on providing additional functionality through a service that would be more on the operational/security side.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by ignoramous »

akajla wrote: post #83
ignoramous wrote: post #27

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Congratulations on the launch, Aditya and Karan. Building SaaS from India (assuming that you eventually will) is always going to be advantageous [0] given the comparatively lower wages and access to a global client-base. Apart form that, in what ways does warrant differentiate itself from authzed.io, another YC-backed startup? I see that both these services are influenced by Zanzibar, but I am particularly curious if…

Thanks! Although I'm not sure I fully understand your first point. Are you asking if we specifically plan to build/hire in India in the future (we're based in the US) or are you saying that in general, building SaaS in India is advantageous? And yes, devxp is one of our main focus areas. After dealing with authz at prev small and big companies, we're building the components/infra/plugins we believe will save app deve…

Thanks for the reply.

> ...we're building the components/infra/plugins we believe will save app developers time across their stack.

I ask because I have been keenly following authzed's progress, after walking away particularily impressed with their pricing (which is 1/10th of warrant's?).

> Are you asking if we specifically plan to build/hire in India in the future (we're based in the US)

I am postulating that warrant'd have a leg up on competition because I presume its founders would be more receiptable to building/hiring in India...

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by wizwit999 »

ignoramous wrote: post #70
wizwit999 wrote: post #51

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Great idea. I thought of making a startup area as well, we called it AaaS (AuthZ as a Service) .

Take the plunge: https://www.field-guide.unusual.vc/field-guide-enterprise/bu...

Working on something else now, but that's a good article.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by rescbr »

brunobannach wrote: post #3

Hi HN, we are Bruno and Guilherme of Jestor ( https://jestor.com/ ). We make a no-code tool for COOs that need to scale complex offline operations such as hospitals, hotels and kitchens. At our previous company, a software development business, most of our clients asked us to build in-house tools like an "easy to use Salesforce" or a "lighter SAP" that would reflect their internal processes. They were tired of paying…

Congrats BannaT!

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by FanaHOVA »

martinlykkesuhr wrote: post #5

GamerPay ( https://gamerpay.gg/ ) is a scam-free marketplace for gaming skins and assets. 46% of gamers trading skins have been scammed more than once for either their money or their skins (survey of 5,000 gamers). 50% of gamers are under 18 and this their first online trading/cash experience. We solve this problem by integrating with Steam and making use of escrow, validating all trades. We are regulated by European…

What do you think is wrong with existing solutions like OPSkins (RIP, played themselves), Bitskins, etc?

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by w-ll »

martinlykkesuhr wrote: post #5

GamerPay ( https://gamerpay.gg/ ) is a scam-free marketplace for gaming skins and assets. 46% of gamers trading skins have been scammed more than once for either their money or their skins (survey of 5,000 gamers). 50% of gamers are under 18 and this their first online trading/cash experience. We solve this problem by integrating with Steam and making use of escrow, validating all trades. We are regulated by European…

Is it not possible to sell being a US user? Cant get past "Payout & account information". Revoked my key for the current.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by ibaikov »

martinlykkesuhr wrote: post #62
ibaikov wrote: post #30

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Honestly it's just bittersweet that YC does due dilligence like this for gaming startups. I mean some of them are cool businesses (like this one), but I'm a little salty since selling items not through steam is absolutely against valve's TOS. Remember that startup that wanted to do an mmo with thousands of players, VR etc etc and the demo was a compilation of free assets in UE4..? Ok, now back to work.

It is not against valves terms of service. They actually embrace the developement community around steam and their games

Valve only allows non-commercial use [1], and selling items not on steam marketplace is clearly against it.

[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/ (2 A)

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by ibaikov »

devrand wrote: post #80
ibaikov wrote: post #24

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But this is against TOS, isn't it?

I think that GamerPay might be in the clear, but they require Web API keys from users. The terms [1] of those keys don't seem to allow for sharing API keys with third parties like this: > 2. License to Steam Web API & Steam Data. Subject to these Terms of Use, you may access the Steam Web API, implement the Steam Web API in your Application, and distribute Steam Data to end users for their personal use via your Appli…

Valve only allow non-commercial use of virtual items, you can only sell items through steam marketplace

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by edgyquant »

kkajla wrote: post #23
edgyquant wrote: post #12

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I think this is interesting but I’m missing something. To me at least this doesn’t sound simpler than just using oauth to authenticate and then having a roles table etc on the backend to authorize. What would you say is the killer feature that would change my mind about this?

Thanks for the question! A couple of things that we think are killer features of Warrant: - The flexible access control modeling. Implementing a basic RBAC scheme isn't too difficult with a couple extra database tables, but going further than that (fine-grained access control, inheriting access, etc.) is quite a bit of effort. With Warrant, you can model anything from RBAC to fine-grained access control and everythin…

> Warrant provides SDKs for authorizing access to your backend as well as a React SDK to make it easy to show/hide pages and components in your React app.

This actually sounds really cool. It’s always a pain recreating JWT and setting up security between the backend and frontend. Doing this as a framework and an api seems like a good approach. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #4

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Post by rmujica »

Felipe_Urzua wrote: post #9

Hello HN! We are Antonio, Felipe, Joaquin and Francois, founders of Chipax ( https://www.chipax.com/ ). We are helping SMBs (Small and Medium Businesses) in Latin America handle their finances. Chipax is self-serve online software that works with real-time data collection from the IRS and banks. We all know how painful and time consuming it is to manage finances and keep payables and receivables up to date. So we are…

How did you worked around SII anti-API in order to get invoice data?
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