Vercel's acquisition of Better Auth lets the project drop its monetization strategy entirely and refocus purely on being the best open-source JavaScript auth package.

44:54create a company that offers something and that's how they could make their money instead of having to just do everything open source. But now Burcell has acquired them and now they can basically focus all of their time on open source. I think the the blog post here says the transition lets us refocus on Better Off's original mission without having to shape the strategy around monetization. So they don't have to

45:17think about how do they create a paid product, how do they scale that? They can just focus on making the best open- source JavaScript off >> package that they can. Um, and they're also working on agent off. I haven't looked into this, but the whole idea of building agents and needing agents to be able to log into systems and stuff like that, agent off seems like it's going to

45:38be a big thing as well. But, um, I I think this is good news. Good news overall. >> Yeah. You know what? I I I'm in in two camps here. I love Bearcat. Uh, we we met at where where did we meet? We met in San Francisco somewhat recently, I think, at the um we did an event at the Chase Center. Is it called the Chase Center where the Golden State Warriors

45:59play? >> Yes. >> Yes. Uh and we met there. What a cool dude. And uh I I wish absolutely like I'm just so stoked that this happened uh for him because Better Off Rules. He's been putting in the time, the effort. He he he crushed this thing. Um I'm sad it's Versel uh because I don't want this to be walled off. Um I don't want this to become a Versel best situation. Um,

46:27you know, I I I I have my issues there. But as somebody who was acquired and, you know, wanted people to not, you know, to give us the benefit of the doubt when we were acquired, I will absolutely do that as well. And I'm more than happy to be very stoked for um him. So, yes. Yeah. Um, I I think this is a good thing. It means Better Off will

46:51continue to grow without having to monetize. People were saying that they were going to move off of it in favor of something like Clerk or who knows these other things. And you cannot convince me that like a paid off as a service solution is something I want to do. I would I want something that I can host myself. Um if because I I rolled my own off I hand hand wrote my O for a long