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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: 0.266s | source
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jtms ◴[26 Jun 25 03:25 UTC] No.44383929[source]▶
"Better Auth’s pitch is simple: Let developers implement everything from simple authentication flows to enterprise-grade systems directly on their databases and embed it all on the back end."

Its absolutely bonkers to me that web development has gotten to a point where this is a novel pitch. Up until not that long ago ALL auth was done directly in your own database and embeded in your own backend. Am I missing something?

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the__alchemist ◴[26 Jun 25 13:32 UTC] No.44387250[source]▶
I'm curious about this too. How does this, for example, compare to Django's built-in auth?
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1. jtms ◴[27 Jun 25 17:16 UTC] No.44398530[source]▶
Yeah I spent almost 10 years building Rails apps and we would always just use whatever the most reputable gem was at the time and it always worked out great. Its only after moving into the JS/TS world that this became not the norm.