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It's Firat from Permify. We have been building things for quite a while with my co-founders. We have failed a couple of times as well. Building so many products, we realized we had problem with a repetitive and overlooked part of product development.

-Authorizations & Access Control-

It's been a problem to manage roles, permissions, and access control for our apps. Whether it's for subscription tiers, or complex role management.

There are 4 main reasons we frustrated;

1. Overwhelming to build complex & flexible access control.

2. User needs changes quickly.

3. Building access control is repetitive most of the time.

4. Maintenance is important, and usually overlooked.

While working on full time with client projects, features and daily work. It was almost impossible to focus on access control. Also there are dozens of great solutions for Authentication, but not much for Authorizations. So, That's why we built Permify, it's an plug-&-play authorizations API, that makes your apps flexible with future-proof access control. Whether it's for custom roles, permissions, or subscription tier management.

With Permify you can;

- Built Authorizations & Access Control in minutes.

- Create customer roles in seconds.

- We have hosted UI where you can give your users an admin panel for custom roles.

- Gate UI layers & Different Components on your apps for different subscription tiers.

You can try Permify for free without a credit card, and we have a free tier as well :)

I always love HN, yeah I had times when people were rude etc. But usually I found people willing give their best opinions and help me. So feel free to reach me out at firat@permify.co if you need higher plan, I can offer up to 6 months free trial for higher tiers. (Thanks to our AWS credits)

Here's the link:

https://permify.co

My name is Firat, and I just start leading a really technical (an Authorization API, simply Stripe for Authorization)

And I don't have really technical background. I'm trying to talk as many technical person as possible, and understand the problem.

But still I feel incompetent sometimes, so what would be the single best advice you'd give to me? (As a person who are discovering the problem space and understand Authorizations in web and mobile applications)

tl;dr - What do you use for Authorization in your projects, and what's the benefit of using that system?

I'll be honest, I'm working on building an Authorization system right now.

We were contracted to build an ERP for a client. And last of our 4-5 project needed a complex authorization system.

So this time we wanted to build Authorization system as a product which you can customize the permissions, roles and policies. (And use again and again - We already have a Demo)

I have found several ways to handle authorization such as Zanzibar, OPA, Ory Keto etc... And I'm wondering what do you use yourself in your side projects or work?

What's the benefits did you find your own way etc.?

It's Firat from Fluffzy. We're a small product studio, and I'm so happy to share TweetCatcher at here.

TweetCatcher is a mobile app for saving, organizing and finding Tweets you love. It's a simple app that solves a frustrating problem.

Couple weeks ago my Co-founder Ege was trying to show me a funny Tweet from his bookmarks. He scroll through dozens times, try to use twitter search. At the end, he hopelessly tried Google search.

We hate to go through all of our bookmarks, when we want to find a tweet we love. And It wasn't the first time we were frustrated.

We have couple clients projects at hand, but we had our weekends. So, we build TweetCatcher in our weekends.

It's a simple app that let you save tweets, create folders and search all your bookmarks.

Do you hate setting up RBAC or Permission management for your projects?

My question is simple.

We love building new products. But we hate building RBAC.

It's repetitive and boring process. Also every user have different needs.

Some users might need 10 roles, another one only needs 2.

What do you do for Access Management/RBAC?

My name is Firat, I’m the co-founder of Recollec [https://recollec.com]. It’s a collaborative workspace for employee onboarding and upskilling.

More and more companies announcing that they are going all remote. Given the conditions, we realized how hard it is to make employee onboarding training. It usually happens in the endless zoom calls, back and forth... Yet, most of these calls can be archived for another onboarding. Also, there are thousands of free content out there which you can redirect your employees to learn by themselves.

So we build Recollec which is a collaborative workspace where every employee can share most useful content from various resources in one feed, and turn them into learning paths to create interactive onboarding experiences.

To be honest, I was hoping to find some folks who have a problem with the employee onboarding process at their work. I really could use some help and feedback right now.

I know your time is valuable, and I absolutely don’t want to waste it. So, maybe we could find a way to create a tailor made solution for your onboarding process at work, and save some time for you.

Here’s our demo: https://demo.recollec.com

You can reach me out at firat@recollec.com

Thanks everyone