Stytch's company blog covers passwordless authentication APIs, AI agent detection, SDK code generation, and SaaS pricing.
Mostly founders and staff commenting in HN threads, pitching its auth APIs, discussing passkeys and pricing against Auth0, and posting job openings.
Stytch | SF (US) | Onsite or Remote | https://stytch.com
Stytch is the most powerful identity platform built for developers. Our APIs make it simple to seamlessly onboard, authenticate, and engage users – while simultaneously improving security.
Our open positions:
* Engineering Manager, Platform: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stytch/146ef566-c5fc-4d9b-bd60-433910968853?departmentId=0c06150f-b42c-40c2-a0f4-271b9a2ab26b&utm_source=V3L7r47O6j
* Experienced Backend Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stytch/a935d43e-bc19-496b-b25c-32852eff0d91?departmentId=0c06150f-b42c-40c2-a0f4-271b9a2ab26b&utm_source=V3L7r47O6j
* Experienced Full-Stack Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stytch/bdbcbc82-b85f-4f7c-8569-dbccabbf98a4?departmentId=0c06150f-b42c-40c2-a0f4-271b9a2ab26b&utm_source=V3L7r47O6j
* Frontend Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stytch/216e38c6-5b9c-4e2b-82c1-9e85da5af1a1?departmentId=0c06150f-b42c-40c2-a0f4-271b9a2ab26b&utm_source=V3L7r47O6j
Tech Stack: Go for backend services, Node and Typescript for our web services, Next.js and React/Typescript on the frontend. We run on AWS with Kubernetes for containerization, and gRPC and protobufs for internal service communication.
Stytch | Remote (US) | Hybrid in SF/NY| * We have a mix of remote and hybrid roles, please look at the location when you apply.
https://stytch.com
Stytch is building a developer platform for passwordless authentication. Our APIs make it simple to seamlessly onboard, authenticate, and engage users – while simultaneously improving security. To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/stytch
Here are our open roles: - Experienced Full-stack (Backend Leaning) - Experienced Full- Stack Engineer - Experienced Backend Engineer - Experienced Infra Engineer - Experienced Data-Infra Engineer - Product Manager, Activation - Technical Product Marketing Manager - Product Designer - Developer Advocate Engineer - Developer Education https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stytch?utm_source=OEvbo87dAp
Tech Stack: Go for backend services, Node and Typescript for our web services, Next.js and React/Typescript on the frontend. We run on AWS with Kubernetes for containerization, and gRPC and protobufs for internal service communication.
Stytch | Various roles | San Francisco, CA ONSITE/HYBRID | https://stytch.com
Stytch helps developers protect their applications and make authentication that's simple and scalable, so that teams can stay focused on building differentiated products. That's various forms of signup/login flows, SSO and multi-tenant organization needs, integrated bot detection and fraud prevention, and more.
Beyond core authentication for humans, I'm also excited about our work in auth for AI: making it easy for companies to serve AI agents, and for AI agent developers to securely get things done. Stytch Connected Apps makes it easy to authenticate AI agents, and IsAgent and Device Fingerprinting help companies understand and control their AI traffic.
Personally, I enjoy working on interesting things, with the ability to make customer impact, and with great people. If you do too, consider joining us.
We are hiring for Software Engineer, DevRel/Marketing Engineer, Product Designer, and Solutions Engineer roles.
Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stytch
Hi HN! I’m one of the founders of Stytch (https://stytch.com/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=hackernews&utm_campaign=launch). We provide developer APIs and SDKs that make it simple to embed passwordless authentication in your apps. Today, we support email magic links, SMS and WhatsApp passcodes, and one-click user invitations.
We’re working on adding more features like session management, WebAuthn, OAuth support, QR codes, and more in the coming months. Our docs and guides make it really simple to set up authentication for a new app or add additional features to an existing app.
Here’s more on why we’re building Stytch: https://stytch.com/blog/why-stytch/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=hackernews&utm_campaign=launch
Sign up today and try it out: https://stytch.com/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=hackernews&utm_campaign=launch
Would love any feedback and questions!
The big cloud providers have substantial free tiers (50k MAUs). Cognito, Firebase and Azure AD B2C all have a similar free tier. After you go through the free tier, you pay per MAU ($0.005 per MAU, according to https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/pricing/ , I think similar for the other providers. For smaller players, I think Stytch is 10c/MAU/month, where an MAU is any interaction with the Stytch service (login in all the many forms). https://stytch.com/pricing has more.
You'll have to dig a bit deeper into each pricing page to determine what actions make a user 'active'. I'm not aware of anyone who does MAU calculations on a day to day basis; monthly rollups are the standard.
Some folks charge per MAU (FusionAuth does) but in a band (the first 10k MAUs for a FusionAuth paid version are all one price).
HTH.
Great article, but the actual technical details of their current “browser fingerprinting” approach are linked at the bottom: https://stytch.com/docs/fraud/guides/device-fingerprinting/overview
This seems semi-effective for professional actors working at scale, and pretty much useless for more careful, individual actors — especially those running an actual browser window!
I agree that the paywalls around LinkedIn and Twitter are in serious trouble, but a more financially pressing concern IMO is bad faith Display Ads publishers and middlemen. Idk exactly how the detectors work, but it seems pretty impossible to spot an unusually-successful blog that’s faking its own clicks…
IMHO, this is great news! I believe society could do without both paywalls or the entire display ads industry.