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mathiasn commented on Reverse Engineering PowerPoint's XML to Build a Slide Generator   listenlabs.ai/blog/i-used... · Posted by u/walz
mathiasn · 6 months ago
Is that something you want to open source?
mathiasn commented on The SSO Wall of Shame   sso.tax/... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
mathiasn · 8 months ago
https://ssotax.org gets more updates. There is also a Friends of SSO page :-)
mathiasn commented on Launch HN: Langfuse (YC W23) – OSS Tracing and Workflows to Improve LLM Apps   github.com/langfuse/langf... · Posted by u/mdeichmann
mfdupuis · 8 months ago
This is actually one of the more interesting LLM observability platforms I've seen. Beyond addressing scaling issues, where do you see yourself going next?
mathiasn · 8 months ago
What are other potential platforms?
mathiasn commented on Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?    · Posted by u/hu3
gottoupvote · a year ago
Consider updating https://sso.tax/
mathiasn · a year ago
Or better ssotax.org which is already way ahead.
mathiasn commented on The SSO Wall of Shame   sso.tax/... · Posted by u/markuta
mathiasn · a year ago
Yeah that's the old not very much up2date page. https://ssotax.org has more data and even has a Friends of SSO page.
mathiasn commented on Show HN: Shadow IT Scan – Uncover SaaS Apps, Users and Risky OAuth Scopes   accessowl.io/scan... · Posted by u/mathiasn
haswell · a year ago
This severely limits the usefulness of a product like this.

Core aspects of the product like workflows and task management should not be tied to a chat vendor in my opinion, and would make me extremely nervous as a potential buyer due to your complete dependence on what SF does with Slack.

I’ve also worked places that strongly dislike Slack and won’t touch it since it was acquired by Salesforce. Ironically, your product would cause Shadow IT deployments (of Slack) in such environments.

Sharing these concerns because I think the product is a really useful concept, but your roadmap for these core functions would mean the difference between considering and completely passing over AccessOwl, i.e. for some subset of potential customers, the hard dependency on Slack is a complete blocker.

mathiasn · a year ago
Depending on the point of view it can also be a strength. Actually many of our customers like that we're in Slack because their people are already there:

- no login required to request an access - they don't need to "learn a new application"

So for end users that's great. There is still a web app for admins with more details.

But I can see where you're coming from. We plan to offer an alternative to Slack to be independent if the customers want that.

mathiasn commented on Show HN: Shadow IT Scan – Uncover SaaS Apps, Users and Risky OAuth Scopes   accessowl.io/scan... · Posted by u/mathiasn
moxli · a year ago
> AccessOwl calculates billing based on the number of active Slack users, excluding Single-Channel Guests and service accounts, as this is usually the closest measure to your number of active employees. The billing amount is updated prorata each month and before each payment, based on the number of users in your Slack workspace.

https://www.accessowl.io/pricing

How does pricing work if Slack is not used?

mathiasn · a year ago
Slack is required for AccessOwl. It's used for things like approval workflows, task management and notifications in general.

What do you use instead?

mathiasn commented on Show HN: Shadow IT Scan – Uncover SaaS Apps, Users and Risky OAuth Scopes   accessowl.io/scan... · Posted by u/mathiasn
throwaway48540 · a year ago
Nobody without the power to sign contracts in company name can legally register and use a SaaS at work. They can make a personal account and using it amounts to extracting data out of the company.
mathiasn · a year ago
From a legal point of view that might be true, but I believe people are not aware that this is a problem. They just register, check the "Agree terms of service" box and do whatever they want to do. I saw that often, especially with Marketing.
mathiasn commented on Show HN: Shadow IT Scan – Uncover SaaS Apps, Users and Risky OAuth Scopes   accessowl.io/scan... · Posted by u/mathiasn
thanksgiving · a year ago
If you block marketing from using the tools they want, they will do it anyway but using personal email addresses like Gmail or something like that especially with the generous free tiers.
mathiasn · a year ago
Which makes it even worse because you cannot detect that then :/

Shouldn't people just be able to try out new things? How can a company be innovative otherwise? And at a specific point (e.g. putting customer data into it), they need to start a proper vendor assessment process.

u/mathiasn

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