Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC

So pumped for Bereket. Better Auth is awesome.

I am also interested on how they plan to monetise it. I love the library and the success story but hope that the weight of this VC money doesn’t impact its awesomeness

I think they’re rolling out their own managed auth service, may have already done so actually.

Gonna use n8n model, have these one click deploys with cloud db and everything or self host for free with many cut off features.

They launched this a few months ago

What is the plan if Amazon decides to launch it as a service?

Amazon already has Cognito. It's garbage. https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/

> I love the library and the success story but hope that the weight of this VC money doesn’t impact its awesomeness

It most certainly will at some point.

Not great but also far from garage for something that is extremely low cost.

I mean, it depends on your use case (and I say this as a cognito competitor).

There are times when Cognito makes a ton of sense (I wrote about some of them here[0]). There are other times when it doesn't.

What I keep wondering and asking is "why doesn't AWS invest more in Cognito?"[1]

0: https://fusionauth.io/blog/how-to-migrate-from-cognito#when-...

1: https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/trends-in-ciam