[dickhardt]

Hey HN, I’m Dick Hardt[1][2][3], and I’m the founder of Hellō.

Hellō is a new paradigm in Identity as a Service that empowers the user, simplifies development, and has a much lower cost structure.

If you are building a new app, Hellō is faster (minutes) and cheaper (free) than the alternatives.

https://www.hello.dev/docs/comparison/

... especially if you are building with Next.js, Express, or Fastify and using our Quickstart which removes all the manual configuration so that you are running locally in a minute, and can be deployed fully configured a minute later.

We posted about our co-operative approach on HN last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177705

Since then we have added support for Discord, GitHub, GitLab, Mastodon, and Twitter. If you are on a mobile device, you can enroll a passkey for future logins on that device. On the desktop, you can scan a QR code to login with your phone.

We expect you have more questions. https://www.hello.coop/pages/approach.html describes:

- Our approach - How the cooperative works - How we’ll fund Hellō with smart contracts - Our guiding tenets - How we protect people’s privacy - Our architecture

Thanks for reading and trying! Please share your questions, impressions, criticisms, and requests here, or you can email me @ [e-mail]

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/dickhardt/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Hardt https://twitter.com/DickHardt

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6750, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-1/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpajcAgR1E