Better Auth, an authentication tool by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC

It is rare to create a widely accepted developer’s infrastructure tool of solo founder. More if the founder is from Africa. Beket engidaA self-taught programmer from Ethiopia is the best means of identification that some developers say.

Start of Eng inag, A better truthDevelopers offer an open source framework that promise to simplify the promising of how the user manages the identification, and this attracted the attention of some great birthday investors. Recently, the XV (previously seized Sequoia India and Southeast Asia), Y Combinator, P1 enterprises and chapters for about $ 5 million.

But here the most interesting part of the beginning of the beginning of the beginning: Eng in the United States says the whole product returned home in Ethiopia before putting his foot in the United States

Eng in English TechCrunch said that after refusing to help build an e-commerce search for a friend, the program began to work on the 18th and the project itself. Some remote software worked on land and eventually established a web analytical platform that follows user behavior on the websites of developers.

But throughout its various works, the enginda says he continues to see a problem that arises everywhere: Verification. Each application must manage how users are entered and re-establish their passwords and sometimes managers manage their permissions and user roles. However, the existing tools were very limited or very tough – offers services managed by companies such as Auth0, Firebase and Nexthtauth, but the user’s data is external, limiting and expensive.

“I remember the nature of an organization needed. The most common use for Saas applications, but it was not available from providers,” said Eng was techcrunch. “That’s why I had to build it from scratch. It took me two weeks and remembering to think, ‘It’s crazy; it should be a better way to solve it.” “

Then he raised the project and began to work on the use of user data to the user information through open source libraries, as groups and roles that provide general permits – plug-ins.

“The idea was that you could add advanced features in just two or three code lines,” he said.

Why do developers love him

During the six months, the labor room operated mainly from the bedroom in Ethiopia, set up the first version of the library that will continue to be a better fact. When sending GitHub in September 2024, the developers quickly saw the potential.

Since then, a better truth is 150,000+ weekly download, 15,000+ GitHub stars and a community of more than 6,000 controversial members, starting claims.

A better AUTHOUP is simple: Purchase everything from the simple identification of developers directly from the flows to enterprise-class systems directly in the database and place it all. Unlike the homeowner, something better, the development of the database of developers is an open source library that developers can integrate directly by Kembase. This feature is a great point for companies that causes critical user data to third parties.

The library found an unexpected traction between the early birth of EU, which combines with the ownership APIs, which is securely managing the verses and build high costs.

“We first heard about the product from numerous beginnings,” he said. “Their authentic product was adopted among the next generations of the beginning of the AI.”

A better truth is the first direct investment of the XV to an African builder.

Engida, a better truth, is free to use, and will launch a paid enterprise infrastructure to improve their main features and connecting to an open source base. This will prefer developers to host self-hosting or better born when necessary.

How to scale how to trade with the construction of the product society. Therefore, it is a small team to help to maintain the code of code and expanding documents and support enterprise users on the road map. So far, Eng in Lida still writes the most of the code.

Only a better truth that finishes YC’s latest spring Batch, Drone-based digital health platform AVION and Food Delivery Platform is the third Ethiopian startup to pass the accelerator after Beu provision.

“Construction is not only because of what people love the products, but not because of what it represents.” The global products are not more of the Ethiopian founders. It is almost impossible for many. Thus, this traction hopes to be more ambitious than other people. “