Rownd is an AI-ready App Services Platform: one SDK for auth 🔐, payments 💳 & user management ⚙️. Spin up production-ready apps in minutes, free up to 1 M MAUs 🚀. Build faster, scale smarter, ditch siloed vendors! 🔥
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I’m Rob Thelen, co-founder & CEO of Rownd (YC W22). We’re launching a free tier up to 1 M MAUs—why 1 M? Because teams need runway to scale without per-user ransom notes. I have built hundreds of AI-assisted apps (vibe coding is my passion), and the thing that often goes wrong is the app plumbing - authentication, authorization, user management, payments, etc. The Rownd App Services Platform solves that problem.
🔑 One SDK, five Core Pillars
🔐 Authentication (passwordless, social, SAML/OIDC, adaptive MFA)
💬 Smart Links (make your own Branch-link links, for 1/100 of the price)
💳 Payments & Subscriptions (Stripe integration in <10s, metered billing, portal UI, renewals)
👥 User Management (profiles, roles, permissions, webhooks)
🔋 All batteries included - Rownd's frontend SDKs come with all the necessary visual elements - login, signup, sign-out, profile, subscription management, etc.
🌱 Why We Did It
AI-powered “vibe coding” teams can prototype full apps in minutes, but the plumbing underneath remains brittle and costly. We built Rownd so you can focus on your unique value, not boilerplate. Our freemium flywheel has already driven enterprise-scale growth, and this 1 M MAU launch is just the beginning.
Set up user management, authentication, and payments in one prompt.
Ask me anything—Stripe setup, MCP roadmap, compliance at scale, or your toughest integration pain. Thanks for checking us out—your feedback will shape Rownd’s next chapter!
The 1M MAU free tier is a smart way to back early-stage teams without throttling growth too soon — solid positioning. The integration of auth, payments, and user management into a single SDK is a huge time-saver for anyone building fast, especially with AI-assisted workflows accelerating frontend dev.
Curious how deep the adaptive MFA and permissioning go — could see this being valuable for apps with evolving access tiers.
Clean stack, nice move.
Hey Product Hunt! Rachel here—I'm a co-founder and designer at Rownd.
We’re super excited about this launch—it’s the result of a ton of thinking (and rethinking) about what AI builders and scaling teams really need. We’re serious about making it easy to go from prototype to production—no extra plumbing required.
Would love your thoughts—what tools are you building with, and what’s still too hard? Let’s make it easier together.
Really appreciate the 1M MAU free tier—it gives indie teams like mine the breathing room to iterate without sweating every new signup.
Congrats on the launch, Rob and team! Rownd feels like the kind of dev infra that actually gets how modern AI-first teams build.
