Descope

Drag-and-drop authentication for your app

4.8•10 reviews•

878 followers

Drag-and-drop authentication for your app

4.8•10 reviews•

878 followers

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Descope is an authentication and user management platform built by developers, for developers. Create frictionless and secure login experiences using our no-code workflows, SDKs, and APIs. Meant for business apps, consumer apps, and everything in between.

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Descope

Maker

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Hi Product Hunt 👋 This is Slavik - Co-Founder and CEO of Descope. We’re very excited to share our drag-and-drop authentication and user management platform with you! My founding team and I have built multiple enterprise security startups over the past two decades (Sentrigo for database security and Demisto for security automation). While scaling these companies, we experienced first-hand what a big engineering lift building authentication in-house can be. What started out as a sprint line item quickly ballooned into a multi-year investment as we faced questions like: * Which authentication methods should we use? * How should we securely manage sessions? * How do we handle password resets? * What’s the best way to tackle roles and permissions for users and tenants? * Where should we add security controls to protect sensitive user actions? * Why are we even using passwords? * How do we provision and de-provision users for a self-serve solution? * Seriously, why passwords? We became authentication experts the hard way, but hopefully you won’t have to. With Descope, our mission is to abstract away the complexity of authentication - while also making it passwordless, frictionless, and secure - so that developers can spend more time on other product goals. *How Descope helps* 🚀 Go live with any combination of authentication methods, including passkeys / biometrics, magic links, social logins (OAuth), SAML SSO, one-time passwords, authenticator apps, and (sigh) passwords. ⚡ Create authentication flows and user-facing screens in a customizable visual workflow designer. 🔒 Improve login security by stopping bot attacks, account takeover, and password-based compromise. 🏆 Get your business app enterprise-ready with role-based access control, tenant management, and SCIM provisioning. 👁️‍🗨️ Protect your users with multi-factor authentication, step-up controls for risky actions, and secure session management. ⚙️ Build the way you want – choose from no-code workflows, Client and Backend SDKs, and REST APIs. For more implementation details, check out our documentation here: https://docs.descope.com Sign up on our website for our Free Forever Tier and let us know what you think! Our team will be around all day and will be sure to address any feedback or comments you have. Cheers, Slavik

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3yr ago

@slavik_markovich Congrats Slavik, Rishi and team on your launch. As an early stage startup, we can feel the need for a solution like Descope when we need to support Enterprise SSO, Magic Links and Protected Auth etc Can't wait to see Descope growth and be part of the journey as a user!

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

@vijay_rayapati Thank you for your support and feedback!

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3yr ago

@slavik_markovich Congrats on the launch. To begin with, I really like what you guys have done with the thumbnail. I have first-hand experienced this problem. Way to go!

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

@praveen_mishra6 Thanks for your encouraging comment! Yes, we spent a bit of time on the thumbnail to make sure it conveyed the value Descope provides as well as being eye-catching :)

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3yr ago

Bashful

@slavik_markovich This is awesome. Looking forward to using it. Have been concerned about authentication problems with users for a few weeks now lol

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3yr ago

meetheverse

Congratulations on the launch of Descope! The no-code workflows, SDKs, and APIs sound like a dream come true for creating frictionless login experiences. Are there any additional features that can make the user experience even better? Keep up the good work! 👍

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

@srprs thanks! In addition to the No code workflow, descope enables many multi-tenancy and SAML related capabilities which helps B2B app developers build enterprise ready apps! Appreciate your feedback.

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

@srprs Thank you for the feedback! One feature that comes to mind which we didn't mention here is Enchanted Links. These are an enhanced version of magic links where a user can start the login process on one device while clicking the link on another device. This leads to a more seamless user experience (e.g. request login on laptop, click enchanted link on phone, complete login on laptop). You can check out the documentation here: https://docs.descope.com/build/g...

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3yr ago

Govar – English speaking app

Hi! Good luck on the launch! Can I add login with apple using descope? If yes can I add somehow email collecting?

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

Hi @dzianis_yatsenka, thanks! Yes, you can add the most popular social OAuth providers, including Apple to your login page, after the sign-in / sign-up you will be able to get the logged in user's email. Check out our docs https://docs.descope.com. Let me know if you have further questions.

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3yr ago

Govar – English speaking app

@dorsha I mean apple has feature “hide my email”, but I need sometimes user’s email to contact him. Do you know the solution for this problem?

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

@dzianis_yatsenka I see, for that, after signing-in with Apple, you can add a step in the login flow to update the user email, the step will ask the user to enter their email and verify it.

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3yr ago

Govar – English speaking app

@dorsha oh, thanks! I’ll try😎

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

@dzianis_yatsenka great, let me know how it goes. I also encourage you to join AuthTown, our Slack community: https://www.descope.com/community

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3yr ago

Congrats on the launch! I was wondering how to setup different scopes for different providers? Let’s say, for some providers in need to pass scope to get more data from them. Is it possible to do in this solution?

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

@alexey_yurkevich we don't support today additional scopes, but have heard about this request , we will look to add this to our roadmap Feel free to add that request in our GitHub discussion page

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

@alexey_yurkevich Thanks for your feedback! As @meirwah mentioned, feel free to add this request as well as anything else that comes to mind on our GitHub Discussions page: https://github.com/orgs/descope/...

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3yr ago

Hi @alexey_yurkevich , for your convenience, you can find the default supported scopes in our docs: https://docs.descope.com/customi...

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3yr ago

@meirwah thanks for that! Can I contribute to this project on my own?

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3yr ago

@abhishekiyer52 great, thanks

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3yr ago

WeLinQ

Looks neat!! How can someone use their existing login provider - let's say firebase auth, to use descope?

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

@yardstick17 some providers support OIDC integration, which we are planning to add soon That should delegate AuthN to Descope

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

@yardstick17 Thanks for kind words! Yes as @meirwah said, we can support that use case by OIDC integration (already in closed beta with a few early adopters). This will enable you to add passwordless authentication in minutes with your existing user stores.

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3yr ago

Qodo (formerly CodiumAI)

Looks interesting and useful! Do you support multi-tenancy and allow tenant admins to manage their own SAML definitions and users? Congrats on the launch 🚀

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

Hi @maritamar, and thanks for the note. Yes, Descope provides full multi-tenancy support with tenant-level self-service. Admins of tenants can set up their own SAML configuration, attribute mappings, and group-to-role mapping for RBAC. We also provide a built-in Flow to provide UI for such self-service setup, reducing the need to develop the settings UI yourself.

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3yr ago

Rownd Auth

Congrats on the launch! I'm curious on how you compare what you've built to others in the space like https://rownd.io/ - it seems theres an alignment that passwordless is the future! But based on what Im seeing in the docs https://docs.descope.com/customi... perhaps a disagreement where Descope has decided to allow passwords, at least for now, for those that insist?

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3yr ago

Descope

Maker

Hi @richardiporter, and thanks for the note! We at Descope truly believe in the Passwordless movement, but we also believe in listening to our customers, and some have strong justification for it. One example was the migration between auth providers and the desire to reduce as many complexities as possible for the end user, starting with one-to-one migration and then starting the Passwordless efforts with the users. As for the differentiator question - the Descope Flows provides a different approach to the authentication challenge - looking at the sign-up and sign-in process as a journey rather than a point-in-time action. As such, the Flow allows the Descopers (app developers) to create a visualize no/low-code authentication process for their apps - reducing dramatically the effort needed to build and maintain authentication experiences. Hope this helps!

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3yr ago

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4.8

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Reviewers consistently say Descope makes authentication much easier and faster to add, especially compared with building passwordless auth yourself or wrestling with tools like Cognito. They praise the clean docs, strong support, flexible integration options, and a simple Flows approach that helped some teams ship demos in under a day and implement auth plus RBAC in a short timeframe. Feedback here is one-sided and positive, centered on reduced development effort, quicker setup, and letting teams focus on the rest of the product.

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