Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Most SaaS products eventually run into the same problem: You start with one app. Then suddenly you have a web app, a mobile app, a desktop app… maybe even multiple products that share the same users.
Now you have to manage authentication, sessions, and configuration across all of them.
In this Launch Week interview, Cameron Matheson walks through the new WorkOS Applications feature — and why "multiple apps" is something most teams don’t realize they need until it’s already painful.
We cover:
• Why SaaS companies eventually need multiple apps
• How WorkOS now models apps as a first-class concept
• How session configuration differs across web, desktop, and mobile
• Why retrofitting multi-app architecture is… complicated
If you’re building a product with multiple surfaces — web, mobile, desktop, or multiple SaaS tools — this pattern will eventually show up.
This video explains why.
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📦 Learn more about WorkOS:
workos.com/blog/multiple-apps
🚀 More Launch Week announcements:
workos.com/launch-week/spring-2026
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 What “multiple apps” means in WorkOS
00:33 Why products end up with multiple apps
01:07 The new Applications dashboard
01:54 Why sessions now work per-app
03:20 The engineering reality of building multi-app systems
Most SaaS products eventually run into the same problem: You start with one app. Then suddenly you have a web app, a mobile app, a desktop app… maybe even multiple products that share the same users.
Now you have to manage authentication, sessions, and configuration across all of them.
In this Launch Week interview, Cameron Matheson walks through the new WorkOS Applications feature — and why "multiple apps" is something most teams don’t realize they need until it’s already painful.
We cover:
• Why SaaS companies eventually need multiple apps
• How WorkOS now models apps as a first-class concept
• How session configuration differs across web, desktop, and mobile
• Why retrofitting multi-app architecture is… complicated
If you’re building a product with multiple surfaces — web, mobile, desktop, or multiple SaaS tools — this pattern will eventually show up.
This video explains why.
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📦 Learn more about WorkOS:
workos.com/blog/multiple-apps
🚀 More Launch Week announcements:
workos.com/launch-week/spring-2026
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 What “multiple apps” means in WorkOS
00:33 Why products end up with multiple apps
01:07 The new Applications dashboard
01:54 Why sessions now work per-app
03:20 The engineering reality of building multi-app systems
