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A comment on Ask HN: Is creating an OAuth app frustrating, time-consuming, and shit?.

Re:Ask HN: Is creating an OAuth app frustrating, time-consum... by PaulHoule on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:00PM (#36926178)
OAuth is more of an "authentication construction set" than an actual authentication protocol.

There are 881,123 Y Combinator startups founded on the idea that "APIs are hard, let's go shopping" and boy do they splog a lot of content to get some visibility in a world that doesn't care. The thing is that APIs are the easiest kind of programming, they're a lot simpler than writing an optimizing compiler for Intel Itanium or writing a FORTRAN simulation of an atom bomb or writing "Hello World" in React... Except for that bit about logging in.

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Re:Ask HN: Is creating an OAuth app frustrating, time-consum... by Manik_agg on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:15PM (#36926278)
Sorry if I didn't communicate it right. Forgetting the piece that it's hard to handle all OAuth apps in the code. Yeah there are million YC startups here agreed.

I am speaking about how creating/getting an Oauth app approved is tedious and different for any SAAS tool. Having different steps, different scopes and understanding all these. It took us 3 weeks before we got Google OAuth App approved.

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