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Ask HN: Early B2B SaaS without features like SSO, OAuth login, etc.?

3 points babyent | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 04:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | source

Hi. I have been using email login and admin users can invite their colleagues by email address.

Of course, many established companies offer SSO, ability to login using Google, Apple, other oauth.

I asked around to my test users and a few potential users and they mentioned email is fine. In my own experience as a SWE I used many softwares at work which used just email login. However, many more offered a bunch more.

Will it be fine to open it up to broader audience without all these things?

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smt88 ◴[20 Oct 24 05:07 UTC] No.41893000[source]▶
It's so cheap to use a SaaS auth provider like Auth0 or Clerk.dev that you might as well implement one of them. It should take less than a day.
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1. admissionsguy ◴[20 Oct 24 10:44 UTC] No.41894474[source]▶
Likely I am too old, but I completely don't get the idea of using an external service for authentication. Cynically, I have started to suspect that implementing basic mechanisms such as authentication is a lost art among programmers with short attention spans raised on social media and Skibidi Toilet. More charitably, is could be an issue of switching to a new technology every three years, so best practices for implementing this stuff don't have time to be developed.