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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 | 3 comments | 25 Jun 25 18:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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blackhaj7 ◴[25 Jun 25 22:04 UTC] No.44382219[source]▶
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

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burgerzzz ◴[26 Jun 25 00:39 UTC] No.44383157[source]▶
I think they’re rolling out their own managed auth service, may have already done so actually.
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gus_massa ◴[26 Jun 25 14:01 UTC] No.44387528[source]▶
What is the plan if Amazon decides to launch it as a service?
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1. vlucas ◴[26 Jun 25 14:43 UTC] No.44387953[source]▶
Amazon already has Cognito. It's garbage. https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/
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2. infecto ◴[26 Jun 25 15:52 UTC] No.44388581[source]▶
Not great but also far from garage for something that is extremely low cost.
3. mooreds ◴[26 Jun 25 16:07 UTC] No.44388721[source]▶
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