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PropelAuth
Company blog · propelauth.com/post · on HN as aisraelstartupsprogramming
PropelAuth is the company blog at propelauth.com, writing about startups and programming. Since 2022, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Generating chess puzzles with generic algorithms (2022)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly link PropelAuth's auth product and its posts while discussing auth tools, JS framework frustrations, and Rust in startups. The linked posts cover those topics. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
PropelAuth was founded on the idea that a great auth product gets out of your way. We provide you with the right tools out of the box—so you can quickly make your users' experiences as secure and smooth as possible.
Most-linked posts?
- Generating chess puzzles with generic algorithms (2022)4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-10-14
- PropelAuth – Outsource the User Authorization/Management Aspect of Your Web Apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-29
- Becoming a dungeon master for an interview2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-17
- I love building a startup in Rust. I wouldn't pick it again2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-17
- It's not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-14
What Hacker News says?
Yeah, I get where you're coming from. For me, though, the interest comes from the different problems we're trying to solve within the domain we're working in, not from learning yet another front-end framework. (EDIT: Here's a great example of the kind of quirky bullshit I absolutely hate dealing with in JS frameworks: https://www.propelauth.com/post/getting-url-in-next-server-c... . Why do I have to jump through so…
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on “Show HN: One – A new React framework unifying web, native and local-first”Submitted Becoming a dungeon master for an interview as a story · 200 points
HN discussionPropelAuth | Founding engineers | Remote (US) | https://www.propelauth.com We are a dev tools company that provides useful APIs/tooling for B2B startups, starting with easy to use abstractions on top of complex authentication + authorization. Our tech stack includes: Rust, Typescript, React, Postgres, Python, and Pulumi. We also build client libraries that support additional languages. We just finished YC (W22), rai…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted It's not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use as a story · 146 points
HN discussionPropelAuth | Founding engineers | Remote (US) | https://www.propelauth.com We are a dev tools company that provides useful APIs/tooling for B2B startups, starting with easy to use abstractions on top of complex authentication + authorization. Our tech stack includes: Rust, Typescript, React, Postgres, Python, and Pulumi. We also build client libraries that support additional languages. We just finished YC (W22), rai…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”Submitted Understanding Hydration Errors by Building a SSR React Project as a story · 22 points
HN discussionWe've rolled our own (zero frills) so far, but are looking at PropelAuth ( https://www.propelauth.com/ ) to add MFA and other bells and whistles and we like what we see. (Full disclosure, they've become friends of ours through YC)
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on “Ask HN: What do you use to build auth?”Submitted Generating chess puzzles with generic algorithms (2022) as a story · 13 points
HN discussiontry propelauth, for example https://www.propelauth.com/post/chrome-extension-authenticat...
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on “Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others”Submitted This menu takes 20 seconds to scroll through as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThis is actually something we’re working on at PropelAuth[0]. Our general philosophy is that most SP’s don’t want to deal SAML and would prefer to just have their users manage their own org membership - whether that’s via SAML, invitations, etc. We haven’t built an API for it though, instead opting for a UI that walks the end-user through the steps of integrating with their IDP. That’s partially because every IDP is…
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on “The many problems with implementing Single Sign-On”Submitted Developer Uncertainty as a story · 9 points
HN discussionRelated: https://docs.propelauth.com/example-apps/react-fastapi https://www.propelauth.com/free-until-funded >"Free Until Funded - Startups get our Growth plan completely free until you’ve raised your first $1M" (Or 20,000 Monthly Active Users (MAUs)):
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on “PropelAuth – Outsource the User Authorization/Management Aspect of Your Web Apps”Submitted Becoming a Dungeon Master for an Interview as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHere is an opposing opinion from someone who used Rust in a startup but would not pick it again: https://www.propelauth.com/post/i-love-building-a-startup-in...
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on “Rust vs. Go in 2023”Submitted Make your LLMs worse with this MCP Tool as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's not just you, Next.js is getting harder to use as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating Chess Puzzles with Genetic Algorithms as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating Chess Puzzles with Genetic Algorithms as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted I love building a startup in Rust. I wouldn't pick it again as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating chess puzzles with generic algorithms as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generating chess puzzles with genetic algorithms as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Walk-Up Usable Codebases as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pair Programming with GPT-4: CrosswordGPT as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted PropelAuth – Outsource the User Authorization/Management Aspect of Your Web Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Founder's Guide to Surviving Family Holiday Parties as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should I Apply for a Startup Accelerator? as a story · 1 points
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