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Ask HN: Is passwordless login a good idea?

6 pointsby blakbelt78over 3 years ago
The other day, out of frustration, I had an idea for a product that uses Stripe as a backend for user authentication and authorization.<p>I feel like user management is unnecessarily complex, and I dread every time I need to implement it in my products, mainly because it&#x27;s outside the scope of what they should do, and I think I&#x27;m not alone.<p>I hacked a quick prototype to validate my idea, and it works pretty well, so what am I missing here?

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myridiumover 3 years ago
You should be using the accepted FIDO2&#x2F;WebAuthn standard <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;passwordless-lib&#x2F;fido2-net-lib" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;passwordless-lib&#x2F;fido2-net-lib</a>
_benjover 3 years ago
Honestly, as a customer I love notion&#x27;s and slack&#x27;s &quot;magic link&quot; instead of using a password.<p>I think the next step would be trying to hack&#x2F;crack your solution ;)<p>It&#x27;d be pretty interesting to see what you came up with, but for a product I&#x27;m building I decided to give &quot;outseta.com&quot; a try (not affiliated) and picked up the laziest way of just purchasing my way out of implementing auth...