[presentation]

I'm going to be building out a SaaS soon, and expect to be doing a lot of SAML and OIDC auth. The field of auth services seems to be super crowded, between the incumbents like Auth0, Okta, Cognito, etc and a ton of startups all offering nice DX and lower pricing, like Clerk, Stytch, WorkOS, Supabase Auth, and so on (putting aside the options of rolling it yourself). After reading the homepage I'm not really sure why Kinde would be better suited for our use case than any of those other startups, since everyone says they're secure/have transparent pricing/are nice to use, but maybe just gotta try it to find out?

[zaldrian]

I co-founded zalter.com bootstrapped and kind of failed to grow it — mainly because of the market saturation IMHO. Did a lot of PoCs and unfortunately most companies are vendor locked-in.

[connorkinde]

Under the hood you often find a lot of differences in terms of what you get for the cost, limitations in user management depending on which company, and a few other factors.

For us we've built out auth, and now the next step is billing and release management. Once you have these different factors in one place you should see heaps of benefits