Look for those who are trying to serve established respectable professions, ideally have already done so for many years or decades. Accounting, Legal, Healthcare, Journalism (in the ideal sense).

Then look at their own mission. Then look at their own work. Do they show their work? Are they open? Do they willingly allow their customers to audit their work product? Does how they talk about their work match the work product itself? Does the thing do what it says on the tin? Are they hypocrites with respect to those they serve or those they manage?

These are my strategies and I’ve found they lead to working almost exclusively with people who have high Integrity.

The only reasonable explanation is Railway lost control of their estate and something was happening that warranted a group of humans to decide flipping the kill switch was the best of a set of bad alternatives.

So much so the contracting company’s insurer would cite it as the reason why the claim is not covered by their policy.

It’s not like the IETF have any obvious success managing or deploying solutions to IP problems known for over 30 years.

Be very very wary of any vendor selling something built on this Supabase + Clerk stack. That alone is a very strong indicator they do not understand basic security or data protection.