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May I ask what you use Auth0 for? I agree it's easy to do authentication wrong, but it's not that hard that I'd want to outsource it all myself.
by lucaspiller 11y ago
May I ask what you use Auth0 for? I agree it's easy to do authentication wrong, but it's not that hard that I'd want to outsource it all myself.
- sakopov 11y agoAuth0 doesn't just provide authentication, it's OpenID Connect provider which is really where it becomes an attractive option.
- neilellis 11y agoHey Lucas I'm very happy to share! So I'm on my 6th or 7th startup attempt at the moment. User management is one of those areas which starts off simple but becomes an amazing distraction. If you're a team of less than 5 people you're sacrificing a huge amount of time on something which isn't core business. When I first started I did everything myself, but after each startup I learnt more and more not to do anything myself. So in my current project I'm using (amongst others) these startups to replace things I would initially have done myself. ChargeBee - Billing Auth0 - Authentication AWS Lambda - Server logic Firebase - persistence for the UI Zapier (the swiss army knife for SaaS companies!) Surge.sh - static SPAs Intercom - everything to do with users which isn't auth. The initial fear of lack of control when using 3rd parties that sometimes SaaS companies have is unwarranted, the odds are against us succeeding in the first place so time spent writing auth stuff etc is time we'll never get back. Even if we succeed we will probably take 2 years to be profitable. That's plenty of time to migrate our systems if we need to - and we probably won't. ATB, Neil
- lucaspiller 11y agoMakes sense, thanks for the explanation!