better_auth Acquired by Vercel After Download Surge
minilek · x · 2026-07-12
@minilek mentions investing in two YC companies and shares an update on one of them, betterauth:
- When they invested, betterauth had 150,000 weekly downloads.
- A year later, weekly downloads surged to 4.7 million.
- The company has since become part of Vercel.
They also mention the other portfolio company, starslingdev, which builds AI agents for DevOps and is positioned as a "DevOps version of Cursor."
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