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Hey, this product looks like a pretty decent "stack agnostic" way to handle auth. I've definitely considered using services like Cognito but always returned to "DIY" for the data ownership. A couple questions:

1. How will you keep bigger engineering teams on your platform if access to the data (and therefore migration) is easy?

2. I mainly work with Python. Typically I use Django's user system with my own user model and I copy and paste the client company's "general email template" into the verification / signup / reset emails and I'm done with it. If I need it on multiple services I install a JWT plugin. It takes maybe 10 minutes at the start of a project, and the developer experience is similar from what I have heard in Rails with Devise. Does this service have anything to offer to these "mature" stacks, or are you generally targeting newer ecosystems like Node / "frontend first" projects?

Also, your landing page looks great!! :)



Thank you!

1. Developers should not be forced to stay with us because they cant leave. The mindset is that the customer is always first and if they find a better solution than our job is to be better than that alternative (not prevent them from going).

2. SuperTokens works primarily with NodeJS at the moment, but we planning on supporting more frameworks like Django. We offer session management (i.e. securely handling of tokens) for the more "mature" stacks since that was what we originally started off with. Once we have traction for one language, we will expand into other ones that users are requesting




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