Checklist for Auth Migrations

Authentication, like every other aspect of your product, needs to evolve over time. Sometimes, this means that you need to seek out a new auth solution entirely. Whether you're choosing a new auth provider, switching your in-house auth setup to an external provider or bringing your auth in-house,

New SSO & SAML options, React Native, .NET

For this release, we focused on bringing you a few new ways to integrate with PropelAuth and log your customers in: SSO We’ve added 3 new SSO providers: Xero, Quickbooks Online and Salesforce. To enable these login methods, go to the Signup/Login page in the PropelAuth dashboard. Generic

Product

Take Full Control of your PropelAuth Emails

Today we’re bringing you some pretty exciting news: you can now replace the default PropelAuth transactional emails with your own, so you can have full control over the content and styling. We’ve designed this feature in an email-provider agnostic way. If you use Postmark, Mailchimp, Sendgrid, or any

Authentication

SSO vs Enterprise SSO vs SAML vs SCIM

In the authentication space, SSO can be an unfortunately vague term. For some applications, it means “Sign in with Google.” For other applications, it means “We allow you to log into our product with your work account, like Okta or Azure AD.” In this post, we’ll look at the

Internal Roles, 2FA Org Requirement, and SCIM

Sometimes, we try to think of a theme around our releases. Today’s theme is roughly: controlling security and access. It’s a little abstract… so let’s just jump into the features: Internal Roles If you like to give your employees access to one of your users’ organizations, but

Perfectly Contrasting Text on a Gradient Background

Gradient backgrounds are one of the more popular current web design trends, and I must admit they can look very pretty. What doesn’t look so nice is poorly contrasted text rendered directly on top of one. This is trickier to avoid than you’d think, especially when you want

A new look & feel for our hosted pages

Today we have some very exciting news for you: we’re releasing a new version of our Look & Feel editor. Here’s what it can do: Your existing UIs haven’t changed, but when you visit the PropelAuth dashboard, you’ll have the option to upgrade. When you upgrade,

New Documentation and Waitlist Support

Today we’re bringing you two big announcements: we’ve refreshed our documentation and we’ve added support for waitlists. Documentation Refresh As a devtools company, documentation is always top of mind. We try to think of it as it’s own feature, and pay close attention to feedback and

PostHog + PropelAuth

At PropelAuth, we believe that user acquisition is only the beginning - in order to build a thriving business, you need to deeply understand your users and how they’re using your product. That’s why we’re excited to announce our PostHog integration! PostHog is an all-in-one tool to

Founder

Imposter Syndrome Is For Everyone

For those unfamiliar with the term, Wikipedia defines imposter syndrome as “a psychological occurrence in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud.” Essentially - you’re worried that you’re not actually as competent as those

Python

Streamlit Authentication

Streamlit is a powerful tool for creating “data apps.” The easiest way to understand it is with this picture (from Streamlit’s marketing site): You write python code ⇒ You get an interactive web application. It integrates easily with libraries you already know, like pandas and numpy. And the interactivity is

Startups

Becoming a Dungeon Master for an Interview

Interviews should be as close as possible to the work that the candidate would do if they join. While that seems like a pretty tautological statement, it is unfortunately not always true. When interviewing as a software engineer, for example, you’ll run into places that lean heavily on algorithms

New User Insights to Help You Grow

The best way to figure out how to get new users is to get a good understanding of your current users. Once you know who loves your product the most and how they found you in the first place, you can develop a plan for finding more customers like them.

Product

Charts, User Activity, and more

At PropelAuth we believe it’s not enough to help you get your users onboarded - we also want to provide you with the tools you need to keep an eye on the health of your customer base. We have more planned in this area, but today we’re happy

FastAPI

Writing Clean Code with FastAPI Dependency Injection

Before anyone else read the code that I wrote, “clean code” wasn’t really a thing for me. I had no issues reading my code because, well, I wrote it. That was also pretty true for me in college as well. Classes rarely worried about the readability of code -

Case Study

How PropelAuth Enables Letter.AI to Ship Lightning Fast

Letter AI is a revenue and sales enablement platform powered by AI, empowering sales and customer success teams to perform at the top of their game with personalized, up-to-date training and collateral. Teams using their product see a 30% increase in win rates! From the start, they knew they wanted

FastAPI

Building a Multi-Tenant App with FastAPI, SQLModel, and PropelAuth

Building a multi-tenant (sometimes also known as B2B) product can be a trickier than building for consumers. Instead of handling users as individuals, you generally have to handle them working together in groups or teams. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to create a multi-tenant link shortening

PropelAuth Tips: End the Year Strong!

December can be tough for startups - acquiring customers during holiday season is an extra special challenge, as is keeping the attention of customers you acquired recently. But don’t worry: there is hope! With a little work, you can keep up the momentum you’ve gained over the past

Startups

Should I Apply for a Startup Accelerator?

If you’re a startup founder, you likely have one thing on your mind: How do I build the best company possible? There are many great strategies out there for building a company. Some startup founders self-fund until they make a profit, while others lean on their network to get

Founder Featured

A Founder’s Guide to Surviving Family Holiday Parties

The holidays are coming, and along with that will come many questions from well-meaning relatives about the “project” you’ve been working on… also known as: the startup you’ve been working night and day to get off the ground. Navigating these conversations can be tricky, especially if you’ve

Founder

So You Have a Customer Retention Problem… Now What?

A high churn rate can be an absolute company killer, since it will start to negate your customer acquisition efforts. This guide will walk you through investigating customer retention issues, common customer reengagement tactics, refining your process, and preventing future issues.

Next.js

A Complete Guide To Using Cookies in Next.js

As Next.js has grown in complexity, it means there are a number of different ways to use cookies, each with their own caveats. You can read them in server components in the App Router, but you can’t modify them.

Founder

Do This Before Launching a New Feature

A mistake that’s all too common among founders is to get a feature built, release it to the world and… move onto the next feature, perhaps expecting their customers to find it on their own or telling themselves they’ll do “all the other stuff” later, when they get to it.

Product

More User Insights: Churn & Reengagement Reports

A couple of weeks ago, we announced the addition of metrics to our dashboard to make it easier to see what’s going on with your users at a glance. However, those metrics (while helpful) aren’t exactly actionable. It’s really useful to see how many active users you

Coding

Reanimating the GeoCities Experience with react-spring

Happy Halloween! And for Halloween, we wanted to make the scariest thing we could think of… a modern version of early 2000s web design patterns. We’re going to be building this: It’s a web app where a small flock of bats follow your mouse around. We’re specifically