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Ask HN: Is passwordless login a good idea?

by blakbelt78 on 11/10/21, 12:47 AM with 2 comments

The other day, out of frustration, I had an idea for a product that uses Stripe as a backend for user authentication and authorization.

I feel like user management is unnecessarily complex, and I dread every time I need to implement it in my products, mainly because it's outside the scope of what they should do, and I think I'm not alone.

I hacked a quick prototype to validate my idea, and it works pretty well, so what am I missing here?

  • by myridium on 11/23/21, 10:33 AM

    You should be using the accepted FIDO2/WebAuthn standard https://github.com/passwordless-lib/fido2-net-lib

  • by _benj on 11/10/21, 3:21 AM

    Honestly, as a customer I love notion's and slack's "magic link" instead of using a password.

    I think the next step would be trying to hack/crack your solution ;)

    It'd be pretty interesting to see what you came up with, but for a product I'm building I decided to give "outseta.com" a try (not affiliated) and picked up the laziest way of just purchasing my way out of implementing auth...