Corral
Auth and Stripe billing that AI coding agents can set up
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Hey HN. I built Corral because every time I asked an AI coding agent to "add auth and payments," it hallucinated for an hour and produced broken code. Wrong imports, phantom endpoints, a login page wired to nothing.The problem isn't the agent. It's that auth-to-billing-to-gating is genuinely hard to wire, and there's no machine-readable spec for how to do it.Corral is an open-source CLI (MIT) that gives your agent a spec it can read (llms.txt), then scaffolds auth + Stripe billing into your existing project. It detects your framework (Express, Next.js, Hono, Fastify, and 13+ more), embeds into your existing server (doesn't create a new one), and generates working components: profile page, admin dashboard, plan gating, Stripe checkout, usage metering. One YAML config file controls everything.The agent workflow is 9 commands. Every command supports --json. Errors include a "fix" field. Exit 0 means deploy-ready.I hardened this across 10 framework/DB combos with blind agent tests: 3 AI models, 3 rounds each, then a 10-agent fleet. Found and fixed real edge cases like Express 4 vs 5 route patterns, Vite proxy ordering, and agents creating duplicate servers instead of embedding into existing ones.To try it, paste this into any AI coding agent: Read: https://llama-farm.github.io/corral/llms.txt Add auth and Stripe billing to my app. Built on Better Auth + Stripe. 18 CLI commands, 30+ templates.GitHub: https://github.com/llama-farm/corral npm: npx create-corral init Docs: https://llama-farm.github.io/corral/
HN · launched Feb 17, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: billing and payment platforms · 146 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes Providing a turnkey abstraction layer or CLI/library that glues standard auth (e.g., JWT, OAuth) and Stripe billing webhooks together is classic web CRUD and API integration.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Better Auth, Stripe
Concerns raised: Webhook setup complexity and common mistakes (raw body parsing, auth middleware ordering), Crypto payment support not yet available, Agent-built auth frequently fails at webhook handling
Feature requests: Support for cryptocurrency payments (BTC, USDC), Additional auth providers beyond current 9 OAuth options, Plugin system for third-party auth services to add support
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 246 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #241 of 247 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 108 days after the earliest competitor.
- AgentCash · hn · 2026-03-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Agent Billy · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Stripe-no-webhooks · hn · 2026-02-10 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Stripe Projects · ph · 2026-03-27 · 173 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- OpenCredits · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- My agent started its own online store · hn · 2026-02-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Laravel SaaS Billing Engine · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- New Getting Started Experience for AWS · ph · 2026-10-01 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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