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Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

634 points david927 | 2 comments | 24 Aug 24 22:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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rogutkuba ◴[24 Aug 24 23:03 UTC] No.41342558[source]▶
Working on my modern take on an API management + monetization platform . I want to make it super easy to sell API access with all the bells and whistles you need such as; authorization, rate-limiting, subscriptions, credit billing, usage based billing and a self-service customer portal

https://useultrance.com/

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1. is_true ◴[24 Aug 24 23:12 UTC] No.41342639[source]▶
what do you think about rapidapi?

I think the biggest issue is that when an user makes a chargeback they don't pay you. Which makes the 20% cut they take a bit too much in my opinion.

Also the marketplace is getting full of people abusing free APIs for money.

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2. rogutkuba ◴[25 Aug 24 00:12 UTC] No.41343071[source]▶
Well I am not a fan of RapidAPI for a couple reasons, firstly them taking such a big cut of an API provider's business and secondly their marketplace feels kinda spammy and low quality.

I am trying to build so that there is little vendor lock-in (you can export your users to other auth providers, billing is integrated directly into your stripe account, etc) so that you still have the choice to migrate if you ever feel unhappy with the service