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

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282 points bundie | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 18:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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yodon ◴[25 Jun 25 22:32 UTC] No.44382371[source]▶
Pretty sure auth is not something I want a self-taught dev (or even most CS-graduate devs) writing.

Oauth2, JWT's, hashes, timestamps, validations, and such, are all totally simple until they're not. The black hats have way more experience and way more time invested in this space than most any normal dev.

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1. valenterry ◴[26 Jun 25 09:02 UTC] No.44385540[source]▶
As soon as a self-taught-dev can't write this anymore and auth is fully in the hands of only big corps, I'm pulling the plug.

Yes, a self-taught-dev should not write their own hashing-algorithms and so on, sure. But if Oauth2 is so complicated and hard to get right (and test), well then maybe the standard isn't so great.