Curious how other builders approach this. Every new project needs login, OAuth, sessions, password resets, user management and it's never the fun part.
Do you roll your own each time, reach for a library, or use a hosted service? What's worked and what's bitten you?
(Full disclosure I'm on the Alternative Auth team, we built a white-label auth service for exactly this. But genuinely interested in how everyone else solves it.)
Hey everyone 👋 Daniel here, founder of WNC.
Every project we built started the same way: re-implementing login, password resets, OAuth, sessions, user management… the same plumbing, over and over. It's never the interesting part, but it always eats days.
So we built Alternative Auth — a white-label auth service you drop into any app. Branded login pages, OAuth (Google, Facebook), JWT, SSO and user management, set up in minutes instead of weeks.
We use it ourselves across our own products, which is the real reason it exists.
A few things I'd love your take on:
• Which OAuth providers should we add next?
• What's the one auth feature you always wish was just… handled?
• How do you currently deal with login in new projects?
Happy to answer anything in the comments today 🙏
Any questions guys?
I'm here to help )
Is it possible to customize the login and registration pages (UI/flow)? And do you provide any ready-made templates or themes to get started faster without designing everything from scratch?
@oleh_kobrynovych great question! 👋
Yes — the login and registration pages are fully customizable. You can match your brand (logo, colors, copy, fields) and adjust the flow to fit your app, all white-label so it feels like a native part of your product.
And you don't have to start from scratch: we ship ready-made themes you can drop in and tweak, so most teams get a polished, on-brand flow live in minutes.
Happy to walk you through it — what are you building on?
How flexible is the UI customization if we want to go beyond themes — like fully changing layout or building a completely custom login flow? Also, do you provide an API for implementing fully custom registration and login flows?
@oleh_kobrynovych you can go well beyond themes. 🙌
There are two ways to customize:
1) Use our prebuilt UI and restyle it — layout, components, and the flow are all yours to change, not just colors and branding.
2) Go fully headless — build your own login/registration UI from scratch and drive everything through our API + SDKs. You own the entire UX; we handle the auth logic, security, and sessions underneath.
So yes — there's a full API for completely custom registration and login flows. Docs in header
What stack are you on? Happy to point you to the right SDK and an example.