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by mathiasn 3y ago
You don't need to upload your 2FA tokens somewhere. Everything runs on your local machine. You can do whatever you want there.
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by mathiasn 3y ago
> Typically only companies above a certain size use SSO systems, and even larger ones require it for everything. I believe it's historically grown but it's not true anymore. More companies would use it if they could as this mak
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by mathiasn 3y ago
Fantastic feedback. Indeed these are distinctive problems. For instance, "SSO is expensive" seems to be the root cause for the "centrally manage permissions" and "automatic account provisioning/deprovisioning&q
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by mathiasn 3y ago
That's a good point. Indeed there is a technical focus on login flows at the moment as this seems like the hardest problem to solve. Adding API key flows makes definitely sense though!
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by mathiasn 3y ago
Sure, feel free to raise a GitHub issue, happy to discuss.
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by mathiasn 3y ago
I really hope that companies stop putting SSO/SCIM into a separate plan but allow using it in lower plans. Thanks for the idea. That makes sense. We hope that more recipes can be added soon so that there is more coverage for everyone.
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by mathiasn 3y ago
Historically grown indeed ;-) It's fine to segment the market with a separate enterprise plan, I agree! I believe "keeping security hostage" by only allowing it for way too high prices (multiple of previous tier) is not right
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by mathiasn 3y ago
Oh thanks a lot. I updated the repo description. You're right with what you think though :-)
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Show HN: Skip the SSO Tax, access your user data with OSS(github.com)
220 points by mathiasn 3y ago|103 comments
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How I found user accounts in my SaaS tools that should have been offboarded
2 points by mathiasn 4y ago|1 comments
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by mathiasn 4y ago
That's great advice actually. Thanks a lot for your open words, appreciate it!
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by mathiasn 4y ago
Hmm not at all. But isn't it just another persistence storage? I mean yes, it's a column instead of row-oriented one. But essentially it saves data. The core problem I want to solve is basically getting data from various SaaS tool
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by mathiasn 4y ago
Fair point. Sometimes, you want it quicker, easier and in another form. Anyway, thanks a lot for your comment!
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What would you do if you could read out any SaaS application? [OSS]
2 points by mathiasn 4y ago|6 comments
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by mathiasn 4y ago
You have a point here, indeed. What I mean is that we cover the "typical" apps many tech companies use. But yes, not everything is integrated yet.
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by mathiasn 4y ago
We see owls everywhere since that, kinda cool :-)
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by mathiasn 4y ago
Currently AccessOwl works well with "Sign in with Google". More to come. We don't plan to be come an own SSO provider as we believe authentication is solved good enough. But setting the right permissions for a user account is
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by mathiasn 4y ago
I agree with you. SOC/ISO27001 became more popular. Even quarterly access reviews are already pain the more people you have. Documenting all the things is a lot of work. However, feel free to try our product or contact us to get a live
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by mathiasn 4y ago
Yes, I mean in the end the startups from today are the enterprises of tomorrow. And we can learn and build while growing with them. I see your point about trust. That definitely takes time to build up. Companies like Zeplin already work wit
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by mathiasn 4y ago
Oh yeah, you're right we haven't seen it like this yet. Although the point about SSO Tax is that you need to have the highest Enterprise plan to get SSO functionality at every SaaS tool. We just sell more features (not SSO) in ano
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by mathiasn 4y ago
Indeed, we're aware of Bettercloud and others. But that's the point, they're focusing on the enterprise market. When we worked in our startups before we couldn't use solutions like Bettercloud as they were just not affo
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by mathiasn 4y ago
Absolutely. We are big believers in best-of-breed software, where you really do ONE good job instead of trying to do everything.
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by mathiasn 4y ago
Amazing, thank you!
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by mathiasn 4y ago
Unfortunately not at the moment. But this might come. Feel free to send something via https://www.accessowl.io/career and we'll reach out when this changes :-)
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by mathiasn 4y ago
Funnily we started with a pure web interface. But after testing it with a bunch of orgs we quickly noticed that some people have issues finding the URL where to request accesses or when they found it to finally sign in. So we came up with t
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by mathiasn 4y ago
Great to hear that this would solve a problem for you! Do you have somebody else helping you with account creation/removal or are you still doing it on your own? I agree that we need to put more work into our website and list all integ
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Launch HN: AccessOwl (YC S22) – Automating SaaS Provisioning and Permissioning
97 points by mathiasn 4y ago|40 comments
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by mathiasn 5y ago
Thank you Martin!