Hi Product Hunt 👋 We’re really excited to share Stytch with you! My co-founder, Reed, and I met at Plaid back in 2017 -- during our time there, we both worked on the user authentication features that millions of people use to connect their bank accounts to apps like Venmo, Coinbase, and Robinhood. While working on these projects, we experienced first-hand how frustrating it is to build authentication flows. In addition to being complicated, resource-intensive, and error-prone to build in-house, we saw a fundamental issue with how most authentication is architected around passwords. Passwords pose significant security and user experience issues. On the security side, passwords make companies a target for hackers and expose them to account takeover risk (especially given how often users re-use passwords across different online accounts). Passwords also present a significant conversion cost for companies, introducing drop-off during onboarding and retention issues when users forget their passwords. Today, there are a myriad of authentication factors that provide both strong security and a great user experience, yet many people still rely on archaic password-based flows. As we were painfully building new authentication flows, we wished there was simple developer tooling that made it easy to embed passwordless authentication features into any app. This led us to build Stytch, a developer platform that enables teams to easily and securely weave authentication into their products. See what Stytch’s solution has to offer: ✅ Support for multiple passwordless methods, including OAuth connections (Google Apple, etc.), WebAuthn (w/ biometric and YubiKey support), email magic links, SMS passcodes and more ⚡APIs for one-click user invitations that don’t require password creation or confirmation steps 🏋️‍♀️ Customizable front-end components that handle the heavy lifting for you 👩‍💻 A direct API for maximum composability 🤥 Fraud prevention and anomaly detection 🔄 Built-in redundancy across multiple SMS + email vendors We’ve also recently expanded our platform to support fine-grained and flexible session management with our latest beta product, Stytch Sessions. Our sessions product allows you to easily support just-in-time authentication in order to place the right amount of friction in front of users at the right time. We’re excited to hear your feedback on this product as we’re working on new features and functionality to bring it out of beta. 👉 You can sign up today and get up and running with Stytch for free! You’ll also receive an extra $5k in credits (which makes your first 50k active users completely free) if you sign up today. All you have to do is complete the signup process and send us an email at ph@stytch.com and we’ll apply the credits. If you want to learn more, check out documentation here: https://stytch.com/docs Reed, myself and the rest of the team would love to hear your feedback!

We've been using Stytch at Quaestor to power auth through magic links for several months now and it has been the easiest integration I've built. Stytch absolutely nails the developer experience better than any API product I've used (even small things like automatically adding API keys to the documentation if you're logged in). The company also has React and JS components if you don't want to build out the UI yourself, but customizing and using your own UI along with Stytch's client libraries are also super simple to get up and running- we initially were using Stytch's React component to power our logins but later switched to building our own UI.

Hi team!! What do you usually recommend in regards to mobile vs web passwordless on boarding?

Stytch is the best authentication API out there, hands down. What I love about the product is that it is super flexible for any company's needs. For example, if you are a building a completely brand new application and you want to outsource both authentication and session management to Stytch, you can do that. However, if you are a large company and you can't migrate all your systems at once, Stytch still fits in great for important parts of the workflow! Even more importantly, the Stytch team is amazing. The moment I need have a question or an issue about the API, they will do whatever it takes to help me out. They are super responsive and are extremely customer focused. Regardless of whether or not you need a new auth/session management system right now, you should keep on eye on this team :).

Way to go, team!! 👏

Let's go team!!!!!

Hey there! Super thrilled to launch on the same day as you guys :D I took a look at your product and our users could actually use it together with our front-end builder. (We have a native Auth0 integration, could do the same with Stytch). Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss it :) Good luck with the launch 🦾 Best, Raphaël

Authentication via password hasn't made sense for years, and it's nice to see Stytch solving some of the internet's most pressing UX and security gaps as well as they are. The team is smart and ambitious, and I'm excited to see what else they tackle in the coming years! Congrats to the whole team on the launch, and please give their docs a look and send feedback—I know they're eager to hear it 😊.

Congrats team! Excited to see how far you go!

It's been a stellar year full of product launches, I'm excited for what's next🎉

Hey! Looks cool! How do ya'll think you're different than things like auth0, magic.link and clerk.dev? Congrats on the launch!!

This looks awesome! I can't wait to see more websites getting rid of passwords

We are launching our product soon and have integrated with Stytch. It definitely has to be one of the easier and more ergonomic integrations I've coded up in a while. Will absolutely recommend to anyone building a product focused on great UX and security.

Hey Team @ Stytch! 👋 Huge congrats on the launch! This looks lit!

Congrats on the launch! I'll take a look and give you a feedback. Can I see your Threat Model or some architecture diagram to understand how it works?

Game changer

Genius! Imagine all the time I’d get back if every co./app used Stytch…

Congrats on the PH launch, team Stytch! Passwordless FTW 🤘

Congrats on the launch - amazing team and amazing product!!

Hi @jelamb -- love seeing all the progress and updates! Any thoughts on supporting web3/crypto wallets as a form of identity at some point in the future?