p/hanko Open-source auth and user management for the passkey era

Hanko - Open source alternative to Auth0 with superpowers

Hanko

Hanko is a lightweight open source user authentication solution that takes you on the journey beyond passwords. For better security, increased conversion rates, and happier users. Build your next-gen login in minutes – and never look back.

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Felix Magedanz

Hanko

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👋 Hi Product Hunt, I’m Felix, Founder of Hanko. We’re a team of six developers and designers, on a mission to revolutionize the way we authenticate online. For the last 4 years, we’ve been working on user authentication for web and mobile and decided to put everything we’ve learned into an open source project. But why another authentication solution?? Because the way we authenticate to websites and applications will change fundamentally with the advent of passkeys as the first serious alternative to the password. And this change allows us to rethink how the user login works. Today we’re excited to show Hanko to the world. ✅ Open source user authentication First and foremost, Hanko is an open source user authentication solution that is particularly easy to integrate into any website and app. Hanko provides a web component that can be used in modern frontend stacks (Vanilla JS, React, Next, Vue, …) and can be fully customized with CSS to perfectly blend in with any brand. 🔮 What’s our secret? There's one thing we did differently than everyone else. We took a step back and looked at the direction authentication technology is going. Behind the scenes at W3C, the most influential standards body of the Internet, a vision for a permanent alternative to the password has been developed. After years in the making, that alternative is finally coming to life this year, and it’s called passkeys. 🔑 Passwordless accounts with passkeys For the first time ever, passkeys enable a true passwordless authentication experience. Unlike other recent technologies like Magic Links or a code sent to your phone, Hanko’s passkey implementation offers a convenient and very secure login experience that does not require context switching. By combining biometrics and a cryptographic challenge-response protocol, passkeys effectively protect against the most common attacks like phishing and SIM swaps. 99% percent of the time, a passkey login is a biometric login with Touch ID or Face ID and their equivalents, bound to get the same 90%+ adoption rates those technologies saw after being introduced to unlock our phones. We’ve built Hanko for that change. 🚀 The passwordless journey starts with passwords Hanko is tailored around the passkey login experience, carefully guiding users away from passwords. But we made sure not to forget what everyone is using today, and that’s the password. That's why we still included (optional) password support as well as all required user flows to combine traditional password usage behavior with the new passkey user experience. 🏗 For builders Hanko is a lean authentication solution with superpowers that focuses on the imminent journey from passwords to passkeys. Hanko is the perfect fit for teams that are looking for a modern auth solution, but also an ideal add-on for every existing login that wants to embrace passkeys. We hope you like what we’ve built and are looking forward to talking to you about the passwordless future. Felix (on behalf of the Hanko team) ➡ https://www.hanko.io ➡ https://github.com/teamhanko/hanko