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Better Auth

YC Spring 2025 Active

The authentication framework for TypeScript

https://better-auth.com/ ↗
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YC company pages list founders in page JSON, but we only scrape a capped slice of the directory. Pull this slug with .venv/bin/python run_sourcing.py --sources yc_founders --slugs better-auth then re-ingest. Open on YC ↗

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