Hi everyone. I'm currently working on permissions ...
# linking-together
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Hi everyone. I'm currently working on permissions for our saas product and this led me to a lot of thinking about FOC topics. The way I see it, permission is a topic that can get quite complex, but really does not add a lot of value to the end users. As a PM, I really don't want to spend a lot of time on it, I just expect it to get done. And I think that any person that is trying to hack something for the real world eventually reaches a point where they need to think about this, but they would rather spend the time solving the problems they really care about, and not about the tables for a RBAC permission model. So it seemed to me quite obvious that this was a ' solved' problem in programming. I can just use an API in the code to define what is fenced with acces control, I automatically get a GUI to manage that, and voilà, I can handle role-based permissions without worrying too much about it. I have not found such thing, which makes me think that I'm not looking right (hopefully). Anyone has any experience with these things?
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m
same here, implemented RBAC too many times already, nothing generic I've found in the languages I use 😕
z
Yep, also keycloak does this
p
interesting, will have a look
g
yeah there’s probably room for a startup in this space even if the competitive advantage is just being better at getting your name out there than the alternatives if they exist