Product

Take Full Control of your PropelAuth Emails

Today we’re bringing you some pretty exciting news: you can now replace the default PropelAuth transactional emails with your own, so you can have full control over the content and styling. We’ve designed this feature in an email-provider agnostic way. If you use Postmark, Mailchimp, Sendgrid, or

Internal Roles, 2FA Org Requirement, and SCIM

Sometimes, we try to think of a theme around our releases. Today’s theme is roughly: controlling security and access. It’s a little abstract… so let’s just jump into the features: Internal Roles If you like to give your employees access to one of your users’ organizations, but

Perfectly Contrasting Text on a Gradient Background

Gradient backgrounds are one of the more popular current web design trends, and I must admit they can look very pretty. What doesn’t look so nice is poorly contrasted text rendered directly on top of one. This is trickier to avoid than you’d think, especially when you want

A new look & feel for our hosted pages

Today we have some very exciting news for you: we’re releasing a new version of our Look & Feel editor. Here’s what it can do: Your existing UIs haven’t changed, but when you visit the PropelAuth dashboard, you’ll have the option to upgrade. When you upgrade,

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

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 around

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 to

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 - instead

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

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

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 few

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

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’

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

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 user’s

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 of