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Re: Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative

#41

I think Clerk looks great but it starts to get quite expensive if MFA is a requirement. Do you have 2FA/MFA in your roadmap?

I've literally been building this right now, currently doing E2E tests! Should be done by end of the week. (and it'll be free for everyone)

Re: Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative

#42
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In theory yes — actually, we already are an OAuth provider behind the scenes — though we haven't documented this anywhere yet. What would you use it for?

If I'm going to reach for a 3rd party auth provider like this, I want to be able to use it across all of my potential properties. For example a Discourse forum, or a Shopify store, etc.

Makes sense. Yep, we can support that — just shoot me a message if you end up needing this (konsti (at) stack-auth.com).

Re: Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative

#44

As someone who came from Auth0 and god-awful Amazon Cognito, we've been using FusionAuth for years. Their APIs and SDKs have been amazing to work with. They even have a lambda feature to add additional logic around certain workflows or adding claims to your JWTs. https://fusionauth.io It does what Auth0 does but significantly more cheaper and you can also self-host if you want. I built the Pulimi plugin for it which…

I’ve used FusionAuth as well and found it to be quite good.

Re: Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative

#45
post #41

I think Clerk looks great but it starts to get quite expensive if MFA is a requirement. Do you have 2FA/MFA in your roadmap?

I've literally been building this right now, currently doing E2E tests! Should be done by end of the week. (and it'll be free for everyone)

Amazing. Good luck with the project, I’ll be giving it a test run soon!

Re: Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative

#46
post #33

What does dual licensing AGPL/MIT do? Isn’t the MIT license more permissive in all cases?

Our clients are MIT, our servers are AGPL.

Just for clarification, So you can't really host this without open-sourcing my product (since your server is AGPL). Isn't it a stretch to call this really open-source? I compare this to something like a temporal which I can self-host without worrying (and which I believe is MIT license [https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/blob/main/LICENSE])

Re: Launch HN: Stack Auth (YC S24) – An Open-Source Auth0/Clerk Alternative

#50

Can I enable the social login with this tool directly, without manually creating and setting up the "app"/"project" on those social platforms?

Yes.

But it will show our name and logo, and we limit shared key usage to a few users per project, so we highly recommend you set up your own keys before going into production. (The dashboard will let you know in time.)

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