New Documentation and Waitlist Support

Today we’re bringing you two big announcements: we’ve refreshed our documentation and we’ve added support for waitlists. Documentation Refresh As a devtools company, documentation is always top of mind. We try to think of it as it’s own feature, and pay close attention to feedback and

PostHog + PropelAuth

At PropelAuth, we believe that user acquisition is only the beginning - in order to build a thriving business, you need to deeply understand your users and how they’re using your product. That’s why we’re excited to announce our PostHog integration! PostHog is an all-in-one tool to

Founder

Imposter Syndrome Is For Everyone

For those unfamiliar with the term, Wikipedia defines imposter syndrome as “a psychological occurrence in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud.” Essentially - you’re worried that you’re not actually as competent as those

Python

Streamlit Authentication

Streamlit is a powerful tool for creating “data apps.” The easiest way to understand it is with this picture (from Streamlit’s marketing site): You write python code ⇒ You get an interactive web application. It integrates easily with libraries you already know, like pandas and numpy. And the interactivity is

Startups

Becoming a Dungeon Master for an Interview

Interviews should be as close as possible to the work that the candidate would do if they join. While that seems like a pretty tautological statement, it is unfortunately not always true. When interviewing as a software engineer, for example, you’ll run into places that lean heavily on algorithms

New User Insights to Help You Grow

The best way to figure out how to get new users is to get a good understanding of your current users. Once you know who loves your product the most and how they found you in the first place, you can develop a plan for finding more customers like them.

Product

Charts, User Activity, and more

At PropelAuth we believe it’s not enough to help you get your users onboarded - we also want to provide you with the tools you need to keep an eye on the health of your customer base. We have more planned in this area, but today we’re happy

FastAPI

Writing Clean Code with FastAPI Dependency Injection

Before anyone else read the code that I wrote, “clean code” wasn’t really a thing for me. I had no issues reading my code because, well, I wrote it. That was also pretty true for me in college as well. Classes rarely worried about the readability of code -

Case Study

How PropelAuth Enables Letter.AI to Ship Lightning Fast

Letter AI is a revenue and sales enablement platform powered by AI, empowering sales and customer success teams to perform at the top of their game with personalized, up-to-date training and collateral. Teams using their product see a 30% increase in win rates! From the start, they knew they wanted

FastAPI

Building a Multi-Tenant App with FastAPI, SQLModel, and PropelAuth

Building a multi-tenant (sometimes also known as B2B) product can be a trickier than building for consumers. Instead of handling users as individuals, you generally have to handle them working together in groups or teams. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to create a multi-tenant link shortening

PropelAuth Tips: End the Year Strong!

December can be tough for startups - acquiring customers during holiday season is an extra special challenge, as is keeping the attention of customers you acquired recently. But don’t worry: there is hope! With a little work, you can keep up the momentum you’ve gained over the past

Startups

Should I Apply for a Startup Accelerator?

If you’re a startup founder, you likely have one thing on your mind: How do I build the best company possible? There are many great strategies out there for building a company. Some startup founders self-fund until they make a profit, while others lean on their network to get

Founder

A Founder’s Guide to Surviving Family Holiday Parties

The holidays are coming, and along with that will come many questions from well-meaning relatives about the “project” you’ve been working on… also known as: the startup you’ve been working night and day to get off the ground. Navigating these conversations can be tricky, especially if you’ve

Founder

So You Have a Customer Retention Problem… Now What?

A high churn rate can be an absolute company killer, since it will start to negate your customer acquisition efforts. This guide will walk you through investigating customer retention issues, common customer reengagement tactics, refining your process, and preventing future issues.

Next.js

A Complete Guide To Using Cookies in Next.js

As Next.js has grown in complexity, it means there are a number of different ways to use cookies, each with their own caveats. You can read them in server components in the App Router, but you can’t modify them.

Founder

Do This Before Launching a New Feature

A mistake that’s all too common among founders is to get a feature built, release it to the world and… move onto the next feature, perhaps expecting their customers to find it on their own or telling themselves they’ll do “all the other stuff” later, when they get to it.

Product

More User Insights: Churn & Reengagement Reports

A couple of weeks ago, we announced the addition of metrics to our dashboard to make it easier to see what’s going on with your users at a glance. However, those metrics (while helpful) aren’t exactly actionable. It’s really useful to see how many active users you

Coding

Reanimating the GeoCities Experience with react-spring

Happy Halloween! And for Halloween, we wanted to make the scariest thing we could think of… a modern version of early 2000s web design patterns. We’re going to be building this: It’s a web app where a small flock of bats follow your mouse around. We’re specifically

Product

Custom Email Domain & Metrics

We’re excited to announce some new features: the ability to send emails from your own domain and a visual of signup and activity metrics. Sending Emails from Your Own Domain There are plenty of reasons you may want to make sure PropelAuth transactional emails are coming from your domain

Authentication

What is Password Hashing?

If you’ve been paying attention in the past few years, you may have seen that password breaches have made headlines more than a few times. In many of these cases, each breach's overall impact on users depended on whether or not they hashed passwords and how well

React

Why we still use React HOCs

If you’ve integrated with our React library, @propelauth/react, you’ve probably seen that we offer a pretty standard React hook useAuthInfo. It returns a few important pieces of information like: * isLoggedIn - whether or not the user is logged in, as you probably already knew * user - the

Product

September Release Notes

Hope you’re all having a great autumn so far! September’s been a busy month for PropelAuth - we kicked it off with a refresh of our account and org pages, and then have been working on improving our dashboard and client libraries. You can see a full list

Test your React Libraries Locally with Yalc

Building and maintaining a React library can be a large task, even for small libraries. You start off thinking that you just have to figure out how to properly build and package your code. And then quickly you realize there’s a ton of configuration options and combinations of tools

Coding

Using Astro View Transitions for my Chess Library

Astro 3.0 was released recently, and one of the headlining features is their support for the View Transitions API. View Transitions are a surprisingly simple way to create animations across pages. In this post, we’re going to build the frontend for an application I use to store chess

PropelAuth has received SOC2 certification

We are excited to announce that PropelAuth has successfully completed a System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II audit, performed by Sensiba LLP (Sensiba). If you’re not familiar with SOC2, here’s a little background: Developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the SOC2 information