Hi HN, we are Deepak and Sama, co-founders of BoxyHQ (<a href="https://boxyhq.com/" rel="nofollow">https://boxyhq.com/</a>). BoxyHQ provides an open-source platform for developers to quickly integrate enterprise features into their software solutions. These include SAML Single Sign-On (SSO), Audit logs, with more to come :)<p>Every B2B startup faces a common challenge when it comes to selling into the Enterprise; they need to allocate time and resources to support all the requirements to make their offering enterprise-grade. Supporting these requirements is a significant undertaking for the engineering team, especially since they already have their hands full with the core product. We experienced this problem ourselves and that is why we built BoxyHQ, a platform to integrate enterprise features in any SaaS app with just a few lines of code.<p>The main difference with Auth0 and WorkOS is that BoxyHQ is being built on an open source ethos. Our focus is to be a developer-first security platform, putting developers at the centre of our holistic approach and help them close the gap between compliance and security.<p>Please let me know if you have any questions, you can also reach out to me at deepak@boxyhq.com
Great day for a ShowHN for an open source SSO product :)<p>I am excited by this.<p>However I got thoroughly confused on the introduction page of your docs:<p><a href="https://boxyhq.com/docs/jackson/introduction" rel="nofollow">https://boxyhq.com/docs/jackson/introduction</a><p>What is “Jackson” - did you rebrand at some point?<p>I think it’s a Pulp Fiction reference(?) but I spent more time looking that (and the name “Jules Winnfield”) up to try and understand the context then I did reading/parsing the intro!<p>I don’t mind a bit of humour, but this was a tad confusing…<p>What are your plans regarding a commercial model for your product (if you can share?)<p>Edit: also as a bit of feedback; because your website is quite basic at the moment and the only call to action seems to be the big “Contact Us” button, I’m left wondering what stage you’re at and whether you have anything that’s usable now that I can use in production, or if it’s still at a Beta / under-development stage?<p>If it’s ready to be used, perhaps add a “Get Started” button to the left of the “Contact Us” button as that serves as both a strong call to action and also clearly indicates that you consider the product is ready to use (even if your commercial offering isn’t yet).<p>If it’s not yet ready, perhaps change that suggested button to a “Keep Me Updated” button with an email signup?<p>There’s not enough here for me to consider contacting you at this stage… I would either want to try it out, or give you my email so that you can tell me when it’s ready to try out.<p>I glanced at the GitHub repo but I’m still not really clear if this is a work in progress or it’s ready to go…!<p>Just my opinion… for what it’s worth!
If anyone knows an identity solution that supports bilateral and multilateral saml (federation of identity providers), automatic retrieval of metadata/certs, Oauth, Oidc, group rules, IDP discovery (routing to IDP based on identifier), wayfless, and IP Authentication I would love to hear about it. We run a B2B that sells our web based service into education (primary to through to university) and have a small team so are always interested in solutions in this space.
> The main difference with Auth0 and WorkOS is that BoxyHQ is being built on an open source ethos. Our focus is to be a developer-first security platform, putting developers at the centre of our holistic approach and help them close the gap between compliance and security.<p>Not to detract from this project, but I'm familiar with Auth0 and WorkOS both, and I think both would say the same thing about themselves.
Congrats on launching! I work for a competitor (FusionAuth), but there's plenty of room for more different ideas and companies.<p>I like the open source ethos and appreciate you being upfront with your future business plans.<p>Welcome!