Clerk - Authentication and user management for React and Next.js

Hi Product Hunt! Long time lurker, first time launcher 🚀 My brother and I are the type who are always hacking on side projects. We've worked on dozens, and over time we discovered two truths: 1. We always dread adding authentication and user management. It feels like a distraction from our real goal. 2. With every new project, our usual solution looks less and less professional compared to the industry standard. The advancements in user management are great for account security and accessibility: single sign in, 2 factor authentication, device management, etc, etc. **But all these features take time**, and for our side projects, that extra time is impossible to justify. We built Clerk to solve this problem. Because as much as we hate building user management, we hate having amateur-looking user management even more 😁 We approached Clerk's development with three guiding principles: 1. 🔒 Every project - big or small - should have as much security and professionalism as Google when it comes to authentication and user management. 2. 📈 Every project - big or small - should have confidence that its Sign Up and Sign In forms are optimized for conversion. 3. 🛴 Clerk must be an order-of-magnitude easier to setup and manage than every alternative, paid or open source. Today - although we're still in the early days - we think Clerk delivers on those principles. We've placed a lot of emphasis on streamlining the experience for React and Next.js developers, including an integration with Vercel for faster deploys. Please give Clerk a try and let us know what you think. As a thank you to the Product Hunt community, we're offering 6 months of Clerk for free to users who sign up today. We'll be online all day to answer questions, and in our community Slack and live chat to help with tech support. We look forward to meeting you!

Today, I'm thrilled to hunt Clerk. Clerk is the easiest way to add auth & user management to your React apps. As a maker, I've wasted countless hours on building secure & robus auth systems. Having an out-of-the-box system to handle your authentication process, allow you to focus on you core product. @colin_sidoti2 and his great team will be here answering your questions all today long 👇

Congrats on the launch! The app looks sleek and it's gonna help a lot of people. Just one question, how does it differ from Auth0?

Hello Product Hunt! I'm the Developer Advocate at Clerk.dev and the one that made the demo video, I hope you enjoyed it! We're so excited to finally be launching here, we'll be here all day answering any questions you might have!

Cool product! Congrats on the first launch!

SaaS founders will appreciate this. Great job!

I love that you focused in on React/Next.js. Really smart move. Most auth platforms are trying to capture the entire market up front and only eventually back into native React components. The fact that you launched with focus on React is super cool!

I have been using Clerk for the past few months and I've absolutely loved it so far. Getting started was super simple, their development instance helps give me confidence before deploying changes to production, and the team is quick to respond in their slack when support features/issues arise. Can't recommend this product enough for developers looking to add user authentication to their React apps. It will be part of my stack for all future projects going forward

This is super useful! I don't need to worry and bother creating the auth and user management for my next application.

2 factor auth is a great value addition. congrats on the launch!