On: Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?

[paulddraper]

> If I'm using your product as your customer and I directly want to leverage my own product data

Correct. Fortunately, in my personal experience many services offer exactly this (JIRA, Hubspot, Slack).

OAuth is only relevant where the resource owner and client are different parties. I.e. it's for third party clients, not second party clients.