Kratos
Security and privacy
authentication and identity
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
7 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 12 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Design: 0 for, 5 againstDocs: 2 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Self-hosted use described as fantastic for years.
From 1 comment
Congrats to the Ory team. We've been using it successfully at my company (self hosted) for the past ~2 years and it's been fantastic.
edude03 on HN
Open source auth lets engineers run the stack locally and debug issues.
From 1 comment
I can’t believe that people use closed source auth solutions. As a security engineer, I am so thankful that Ory exists. If you can’t run your auth stack locally, your engineers…
breadchris on HN
Slack community and engineer support were helpful.
From 2 comments
Can't share that experience. We are in the process of migrating from Azure B2C to ORY Network and had also some initial doubts if their products are a good fit for our enterprise…
davidspiess on HNTheir Slack workspace is quite helpful
lykahb on HN
Objections
Documentation is confusing and hard to integrate.
From 2 comments
Why are people still using Ory Kratos? It's still incredibly confusing documentation. Large fan of projects like: https://supertokens.com/ that focus on making authentication…
alphabetatheta on HNI want to love ory but honestly I have no idea how to integrate it like I can with supertokens. Literally looking to move from supertokens and have spent 4 hours trying to grok…
nickreese on HN
Website fails to explain differences from competitors.
From 2 comments
A great example of a website that completely fails to clearly explain how it's different from the competition.
nprateem on HNI understood its something to do with auth but even the comparison pages didn't clarify in meaningful ways how it's different. I don't see how this could help me get more users -…
nprateem on HN
Sales process felt pushy and refused technical contact.
From 1 comment
A while ago my team needed exactly this kind of auth solution, so the eng team reached out to Ory to clarify some technical questions that weren't covered by the docs. We were…
2mol on HN
Website cookie banner criticised as non-GDPR compliant.
From 2 comments
Funny how you claim to support GDPR but your own site displays a non-compliant cookie banner.
illiarian on HNIt's their choice to chose that banner, and their choice to configure it this way. Most third-party banners are non-compliant, including this one. Which they should know, given…
illiarian on HN
Requests
Support LDAP/AD connectivity.
From 1 comment
Just curious, when will it get LDAP/AD Connectivity? I saw here https://www.ory.sh/comparisons/ory-vs-keycloak/ that it doesn't have this feature
mihaitodor on HN
Support multi-tenancy in a single deployment.
From 1 comment
Are there any plans to support multi-tenancy? I understand that the current recommendation is to run multiple separate deployments, but will it be supported for a single…
zinclozenge on HN
Questions
What remains before the 1.0 release?
From 1 comment
What's left before you'll be ready to release 1.0 and how will the project change once you've reached that milestone?
8organicbits on HN
Is it an alternative to Keycloak, and does it support realms?
From 1 comment
Is this an alternative to Keycloak? One thing Keycloak supports is the ability to create multiple realms in order to use one instance for different groups of users and…
sureglymop on HN
Alternatives named
Keycloak
From 2 comments
Is this an alternative to Keycloak? One thing Keycloak supports is the ability to create multiple realms in order to use one instance for different groups of users and…
sureglymop on HNJust click the comparison links, e.g., ory vs keycloak leads to: https://www.ory.sh/comparisons/ory-vs-keycloak/ the chart may be hidden "below the fold," so scroll down.
meepmorp on HN
Auth0
From 1 comment
I think their Github "About" text is quite clear imho. An open source identity service that can be an alternative to similar commercial ones like Okta, Auth0.
snowstormsun on HN
SuperTokens
From 2 comments
I want to love ory but honestly I have no idea how to integrate it like I can with supertokens. Literally looking to move from supertokens and have spent 4 hours trying to grok…
nickreese on HNWhy are people still using Ory Kratos? It's still incredibly confusing documentation. Large fan of projects like: https://supertokens.com/ that focus on making authentication…
alphabetatheta on HN
Stytch
From 1 comment
> ...basically presumed that our eng team wasn't the decision maker (it was). I work at an auth company as well, Stytch, and this is something that we treat as obvious but we've…
cco on HN