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Congrats BetterAuth! It was the system I was considering before I rolled my own auth system around the passwordless concepts of: OTP + Passkeys + Google login.
by bhouston 4mo ago
Congrats BetterAuth! It was the system I was considering before I rolled my own auth system around the passwordless concepts of: OTP + Passkeys + Google login. It is quite nice and simple and I've ported it to 3 separate projects now just via LLM:
Talk: https://ben3d.ca/blog/passwordless-login-system https://ben3d.ca/blog/passwordless-login-system
Live Demo: https://passwordless.ben3d.ca https://passwordless.ben3d.ca
Demo Code: https://github.com/bhouston/passwordless https://github.com/bhouston/passwordless
If you are building a user system with a database already, adding passwordless auth is easy.
- quibono 4mo agoOn one hand I love how much easier the email + OTP / passkey flow is on the dev side, I find it _very_ frustrating as a user of services. User+password combos are straightforward at least.
- giancarlostoro 4mo agoI would rather have keypass and "email me a temp auth link" which then requires 2-factor confirmation. I tire of passwords.
- bhouston 4mo agoPasswords are definitely not better than passkeys for login flow as a user, at least not on MacOS / iPhone, etc. I just tap my finger onto the fingerprint reader on my MacBook or I just look at the camera on my iPhone - biometrics for the win. But you need something as a backup to passkeys so I choose emailed OTP, but it isn't meant to be the primary way to log in.
- noveltyaccount 4mo agoThat demo code looks great -- please add a license :)