I wish I would have found this 3 month ago ...
Show HN: WorkOS – APIs for enterprise features like SSO/SAML
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#32I wish I would have found this 3 month ago ...
Oof sorry you had to go through it! What did you end up building?
Re: Show HN: WorkOS – APIs for enterprise features like SSO/SAML
#33Slightly off-topic complaint: I really wish these features weren't considered "Enterprise" by so many people. Do you have a company that uses third party tools and has employees that leave? Congrats, you're an "enterprise" and need the "enterprise" plan. I dream of the day that these features (SSO, Sync/SCIM, auditing) are considered table stakes. I hope WorkOS takes off and drives that. P.S. RIP Nylus
I used to share that sentiment but now having worked on the other side and been involved in too many pricing discussion, segmenting is _hard_. Generous free and credit card plans are often subsidized by enterprise contracts and you gotta have some features to make people want to pay for those enterprise plans. SSO/SCIM/Audit logs are great for that because big companies _really_ care while most SMBs don‘t have an IdP and SME are usually fine forgoing it if they can save a buck or two.
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#34I've had the same thought/idea myself. There's so much more this can branch into if you want.
It looks like this is very targeted towards the SMB space. I'm wondering if you could adjust your pricing and features to help modernize & consolidate some of the overlap at larger businesses in general.
Re: Show HN: WorkOS – APIs for enterprise features like SSO/SAML
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Similar and different in some ways. Our SSO is free, which makes it a lot more accessible to startups and companies just beginning to go up-market. We also provide a more generic abstraction than Auth0. They essentially "take over" your auth screens and show Auth0 UI. If you use WorkOS, it's not visible to your end-users and you can customize the sign-in experience how ever you want.
You can do this with the Auth0 APIs as well, no? By hitting the `/authorize` endpoint for saml-typed Auth0 connections? In that case Auth0 then acts as a SAML-to-OpenID Connect translation layer.
there is a couple ways to do and handle this. It seems like the best practices change every 6 months. There is a similar way to do this with azure AD also. I'm curious how workos differs. Seeing this field evolve over the last 2-3 years has been interesting.
Re: Show HN: WorkOS – APIs for enterprise features like SSO/SAML
#36Hi HN! I’m the founder of WorkOS ( https://workos.com ) We provide a developer API for making your app enterprise-ready. You can quickly add features including SSO/SAML, Director Sync (SCIM), Audit Logs, and more. WorkOS is “Plaid for enterprise IT systems.” I learned about these enterprise requirements the hard way. Previously, I founded Nylas where we built an email app called Nylas Mail. We couldn’t monetize that…
Just want to clarify - is this different from Monday.com? I saw a bunch of billboards on 101 advertising Monday as your new Work OS.
Monday.com is the worst product I have ever had the experience of working with.
Spreadsheet with 200 rows and 20 columns? Your browser will be laggy as all hell thanks to their wonderful UI.
Try to tell support? The entire page jitters up and down as you type every single character in the support box on Chrome.
Reload the page? Well now the page isn't laggy at all, but literally it is not rendering rows that _are definitely there_.
I really wanted to like it -- beautiful user interface -- but it's an absolutely terrible product. And it was ~15 people on my team reporting the same exact behavior as we tried it.
I would consider recommending Monday.com to my worst enemy.
Re: Show HN: WorkOS – APIs for enterprise features like SSO/SAML
#37A slightly offtopic question. Besides older systems/older systems integration is there any reason to have SAML based SSO?
It always seemed to me that if you do not have to support SAML for some older systems the get to go solution is to use a OAuth2 based solution like OpenId Connect.
Re: Show HN: WorkOS – APIs for enterprise features like SSO/SAML
#38Slightly off-topic complaint: I really wish these features weren't considered "Enterprise" by so many people. Do you have a company that uses third party tools and has employees that leave? Congrats, you're an "enterprise" and need the "enterprise" plan. I dream of the day that these features (SSO, Sync/SCIM, auditing) are considered table stakes. I hope WorkOS takes off and drives that. P.S. RIP Nylus
> P.S. RIP Nylus
You mean Nylas?
Re: Show HN: WorkOS – APIs for enterprise features like SSO/SAML
#39Slightly off-topic complaint: I really wish these features weren't considered "Enterprise" by so many people. Do you have a company that uses third party tools and has employees that leave? Congrats, you're an "enterprise" and need the "enterprise" plan. I dream of the day that these features (SSO, Sync/SCIM, auditing) are considered table stakes. I hope WorkOS takes off and drives that. P.S. RIP Nylus
> P.S. RIP Nylus You mean Nylas?
Yes :) sorry.
I used to work for Acompli (now Outlook Mobile) and we hated when people spelled it Accompli. Now I’m that guy
Re: Show HN: WorkOS – APIs for enterprise features like SSO/SAML
#40Hi HN! I’m the founder of WorkOS ( https://workos.com ) We provide a developer API for making your app enterprise-ready. You can quickly add features including SSO/SAML, Director Sync (SCIM), Audit Logs, and more. WorkOS is “Plaid for enterprise IT systems.” I learned about these enterprise requirements the hard way. Previously, I founded Nylas where we built an email app called Nylas Mail. We couldn’t monetize that…
Congrats on the launch, Michael. Been experiencing the same - after conducting demos of our application, we've been told that we aren't enterprise-ready and so we've gone away to figure out what that looks like. I've got extensive experience in the enterprise space having worked in banking tech for a few years so happy to help. Currently, we're building an AI performance management platform for enterprises and so could leverage WorkOS to accelerate our go-to-market. How do you compare to Replicated (https://www.replicated.com/)?