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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: 0.261s | source
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koakuma-chan ◴[26 Jun 25 02:19 UTC] No.44383666[source]▶
Why does a JavaScript auth library have to raise five million?
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joshdavham ◴[26 Jun 25 02:53 UTC] No.44383822[source]▶
Because the author of this library is an ambitious startup founder and would like to grow his tool into a business.
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cies ◴[26 Jun 25 09:03 UTC] No.44385544[source]▶
And many have done this before (selling auth). 0auth, Clerk, Supabase, etc.

Any more I'm missing?

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input_sh ◴[26 Jun 25 09:54 UTC] No.44385790[source]▶
That this is not an oauth backend but a frontend library that you hook into something.
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hliyan ◴[26 Jun 25 09:59 UTC] No.44385822[source]▶
That doesn't sound right. The initialisation code has a database connection string argument. YOu wouldn't do that from a frontend.
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1. koakuma-chan ◴[26 Jun 25 12:15 UTC] No.44386665[source]▶
> The initialisation code has a database connection string argument. YOu wouldn't do that from a frontend.

Definitely /s