Hanko – Open-Source Auth and User Management for the Passkey Era
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…
Hanko – Open-Source Auth and User Management for the Passkey Era launched on February 10, 2025 with 11 votes, #1,584 of 5,999 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Hanko is an open-source authentication platform that helps developers add passkey-based login and user management to their applications using pre-built components and APIs. Designed for the passkey era, it aims to simplify integration with minimal effort. The project evolved from a decade-long effort to replace passwords, building on FIDO standards to provide developers with straightforward tools for implementing passkey authentication.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Open source, privacy-first, and built to scale. Hanko is the fastest way you integrate passkeys, 2FA, SSO, and more, with full control over your data. Move between self-hosted and Hanko Cloud anytime. No lock-in. Just auth how it should be: secure, fast, user friendly, and fully yours.
< div > < h1 > Enter passcode </ h1 > < input type = "text" placeholder = "passcode" name = "passcode" /> < button onSubmit = {() => flowstate.actions.verify_passcode.run({ code: passcode })}>Continue </ button > </ div > Select login method How do you want to login? Password Passcode Passkey Back < div > < h1 > Select login method </ h1 > < ul > < li > < button onSubmit = {flowstate.actions.continue_to_password_login} > Password </ button > </ li > < li > < button onSubmit = {flowstate.actions.continue_to_passcode_confirmation} > Passcode </ button > </ li > < li > < button onSubmit = {flowstate.actions.webauthn_generate_request_options} > Passkey </ button > </ li > < li > < button…from hanko.io
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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