Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Effortless Authentication for Your Web Application
Hey folks, Michael here. I have been working in this project on and of for about a year and a half and I finally got it into a state where I can share it. I initially started this project to learn Rust and afterwards decided to make it useful for others. Vulpo Auth is an authentication server that you can host yourself. The goal was to make it as easy as possible for you to get started and have a complete authentication solution without you having to configure anything. Project Website: https://auth.vulpo.dev The Project contains: - Auth Server (Rust) - Admin Dashboard - JS and…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Effortless Authentication for Your Web Application launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids - caprover/README.md at master · caprover/caprover
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Torii is a powerful authentication framework for Rust applications that gives you complete control over your users' data. - cmackenzie1/torii-rs
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I, like Andrej Karpathy, became super frustrated by how annoying it was to deploy projects that were previously an absolute joy to make with Claude Code. That is why I made open-passkey, an MIT licensed passkey repo with support for 33 languages and frameworks (examples included) that makes adding simple secure auth to a project easy. We are also releasing gateway (https://gateway.locke.id) a "backendless" hosted auth server that frontend apps can consume for free so that you can ship a React or Angular app using a CDN like Netlify without needing to configure a server at all. We…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a project I made to learn more about crypto. I've also written a [post](https://vaktibabat.github.io/posts/ecurvechat/) that explains all the crypto concepts and algorithms used in the project, and how I implemented them. I'd be very glad for any feedback about both the code and the post :)
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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"Game" is a stretch, but I put together this repo containing a pure Rust app which uses SDL2 and compiles to WASM (and can be run in a browser). Older resources were a bit out of date and a bit too verbose for my purposes, so here's a minimal working example.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · oauth-io.github.io · its alternatives →
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I built this tool about a year ago to get really good at the supabase ecosystem. We were trying to raise money on the idea, but that didn't occur, so I wanted to open-source it, as I would love to give back to the commmunity. It allows you to invite friends and family to be helpers for child-care, meals, and transportation, and then you can create an event and they will get auto-invited to it and can choose to support you. It is using vue on the frontend and then supabase on the backend for auth, database, realtime, storage, and edge functions. Anyway, I hope someone finds it useful, there…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An admin-friendly, User Management Server (with Passkeys & JWTs) - for seamless and secure integration of user authentication - authcompanion/authcompanion2
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built AdminCore, a secure admin dashboard starter kit for Node.js + React. It includes: - Cookie-based authentication with HttpOnly cookies - Role-based access (admin / user) - Protected routes via middleware - Full CRUD system - Clean SPA admin UI (modals, tabs) I built this after re-implementing the same auth + admin logic on multiple projects. The goal is to save 3–5 days of setup time for devs building SaaS back offices or internal tools. Happy to answer questions or get feedback.
Feb 2026 · admincore.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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I built Oxidiko because I was tired of seeing companies lose millions of passwords to sloppy authentication systems that were never designed for privacy or modern threats. I’m Jonathan, a 17-year-old developer and security enthusiast, and I wanted to create a simpler, more secure, and privacy-first way to log in. Oxidiko reduces the attack surface by eliminating central password storage, encrypting all vault data locally, and making the user’s identity portable — so even if your server is breached, there’s nothing meaningful to steal. It uses WebAuthn (passkeys) combined with a PIN fallback…
2025 · its alternatives →
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I wrote a forward auth server in TypeScript and Deno. I've written several forward auth servers before but they have always been specifically written for that application. I wanted something more generalised that I could re-use. What is forward auth? Web servers likes Nginx and Caddy and Traefik have a configuration option in which inbound requests are sent to another server before they are allowed. A 200 response from that server means the request is authorised, anything else results in the web server rejecting the request. This is a good thing because it means you can put all your auth…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Any comments are very welcome! The readme file includes links to a demo site that anyone can access (sign-in with @mockmyid.com email if you don't want to create a real Persona account). Do you have any use cases for which an authorization layer like this would be handy? What additional features would you need?
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a community forum for people who use, build, and run things on Nostr. Whether you are taking your first steps with keys and zaps, ship relays and clien…
22d ago · nostr-proto.org · its alternatives →
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Discover our strategy for easily securing applications without the overhead of using a datastore, setting up users, and facilitating authentication.
2016 · arcweb.co · its alternatives →
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SSO and authentication without 3rd parties or remote servers
2017 · blockstack.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm excited to introduce Hanko, a passkey-first authentication platform that allows you to integrate authentication and user management into your apps with minimal effort, all via pre-built components and a flexible API. The origins of the project date back almost 10 years, when we started working on “replacing the password” with a push-based, white-label authenticator app. Early on, we came across the FIDO standards, which eventually became what we know today as passkeys. As big fans of passkeys, we always knew that we wanted to build solutions for other developers to make the…
2025 · hanko.io · its alternatives →
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Contribute to devopsprodigy/isolate development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I am happy to announce Stalwart SMTP [1], a modern SMTP server developed in Rust with a focus on security, speed, and extensive configurability. It features built-in DMARC, DKIM, SPF and ARC support for message authentication, strong transport security through DANE, MTA-STS and SMTP TLS reporting, and offers great flexibility and customization thanks to its dynamic configuration rules and native support for Sieve scripts. The project has been recently awarded a grant from NLNet and the European Commission's Next Generation Internet program to develop a mail server in Rust. The next step in…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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