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Congratulations on the launch, Aditya and Karan.

Building SaaS from India (assuming that you eventually will) is always going to be advantageous [0] given the comparatively lower wages and access to a global client-base. Apart form that, in what ways does warrant differentiate itself from authzed.io, another YC-backed startup? I see that both these services are influenced by Zanzibar, but I am particularly curious if DevX is warrant's focus? If so, what might be the current competitors missing?

Thanks.

[0] Given the Indian SaaS ecosystem is up and running and there does not seem to be dearth of talent, community (https://archive.is/B5OHl) or capital (https://archive.is/ZXvzL).

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Thanks! Although I'm not sure I fully understand your first point. Are you asking if we specifically plan to build/hire in India in the future (we're based in the US) or are you saying that in general, building SaaS in India is advantageous?

And yes, devxp is one of our main focus areas. After dealing with authz at prev small and big companies, we're building the components/infra/plugins we believe will save app developers time across their stack. And in terms of Zanzibar, like others, we think it's a very flexible approach to modeling permissions and access control, so we're basing parts of our implementation on it.

Thanks for the reply.

> ...we're building the components/infra/plugins we believe will save app developers time across their stack.

I ask because I have been keenly following authzed's progress, after walking away particularily impressed with their pricing (which is 1/10th of warrant's?).

> Are you asking if we specifically plan to build/hire in India in the future (we're based in the US)

I am postulating that warrant'd have a leg up on competition because I presume its founders would be more receiptable to building/hiring in India...

* https://authzed.com/

Hey! Thanks for the mention!

Authzed is focused on delivering all of the capabilities of Zanzibar (rewrites, consistency, scalability) in a consumable form to everyone outside of Google. We've started with Zanzibar and are iterating from there, rather than cherry-picking particular concepts from the paper.

You can checkout our post on "What is Zanzibar" to learn why you'd want the whole package: https://authzed.com/blog/what-is-zanzibar/

Congrats to Warrant! There's plenty of room for innovation in the developer UX for permissions, especially with frontend code.

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