Recently, we were adding some new functionality to our dashboard, and we wanted an experience like this:

At PropelAuth, we believe that your authentication requirements will change over time. The features you need when building your MVP are very different from those you need as a Series C company. One of the best examples of this is how you handle signups. So let’s look at a few…

If you haven’t seen My Cousin Vinny yet, go watch it real quick, we’ll wait. Great movie, right? Marisa Tomei absolutely deserved her Academy Award. In case you didn’t watch a whole movie in between the first and second line of this post, the central plot of the movie involves…

When I first founded PropelAuth, I had an idea of what I felt was wrong with authentication tools today. The idea was largely based on my own personal experiences and where I felt existing tools were lacking. Fast forward to a few months later, I had done some basic user…

When it comes to online security and authentication, the term “Identity Provider” is often thrown around. But what does it actually mean? In simple terms, an Identity Provider (IdP) is a trusted service that authenticates and verifies the identity of users and provides them with access to protected resources. In…

Timing attacks Timing attacks are a class of malicious attacks against a product where the length of time that your application takes to perform a task leaks some information. Take, for example, an application that takes in an email and password to check. …

Berri.ai is a powerful product that allows you to easily add AI to your applications. You can, for example, create a chatbot that can answer questions about blog posts that you write just by passing in the contents of the blog post. In this post, we’ll show how you can…

Amongst the crowd of acronyms in the authentication space, 2FA, or Two Factor Authentication, seems to be one of the more self explanatory names. But what actually goes into 2FA, and how does it factor into authentication as a whole? What is 2FA? 2FA, or two-factor authentication, is a security measure that requires…

I was fortunate enough to go through YC with my company PropelAuth for the W22 batch. As an authentication company, we have a lot of customers that are early stage startups themselves and I often get asked what the secret is to getting in to YC. Let me just start…