Switchboard: Multi-Provider Identity Abstraction

Vercel acquired BetterAuth. Vercel acquired BetterAuth

There is a trust component for sure, but a business requires assessing the value of time against revenue. I can say for our org that using an off the shelf solution like Clerk saves us time and money and we believe the risk is very small relative to the savings. Maybe the cost for you is not large right now, but when you've got 20 enterprise customers all asking for specific OIDC integrations configured with Private Link, custom domains, and private clusters, an auth solution starts looking mighty fine.

Oh man, it really depends(tm). If you are building a small internal app, sure, but you'd often still be better off leveraging a social provider or employee directory.I work in the auth space (for FusionAuth) and we run into plenty of folks that started out rolling auth themselves. Just username and password right? A bit of hashing, salting and leveraging a built-in crypto library.But then you need to add account recovery. And then MFA. And then registration. And then progressive registration. And then webhook integration. And then passkeys. And then SAML integration. And the delegated SAML set

Probably the first time reading that the Ory stack is unfinished! Sorry you had a frustrating time, but there's 10 years of development and many happy customers + adopters who see it differently! Polis / Boxy still works as before, we didn't gut or take away anything.Open source development needs to be paid by someone - most of the time people complaining about paying for software are working themselves (for money!) in some company making huge bucks, or looking up to "successful (as in money) tech leaders".For Ory, B2B login is a good value differentiator, because it's required by companies se