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Zuplo Free Plan — Your API shipped and secured in record time
API Management, designed for developers.
Launching today, Zuplo’s Free plan (beta) helps developers ship a public API in record time by taking care of the boring but necessary things, like authentication and rate limiting, that every public API needs.
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@adrian_machado1 Sure thing! So there's a couple of AIs out right now everyone's interested in, namely Stable Diffusion and GPT-3. There's also people filling in that demand by creating AI apps like art editors or writing apps.
But the issue with GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion APIs that currently exist is their cost and restrictiveness (GPT-3 allows no sexual or violent content, and the stable diffusion api from Dreamstudio blurs out nudity). As mentioned before, the costs can also rack up.
So my main solution is to make connecting AI to your app more accessible for devs, since the AIs themselves are really GPU intensive (esp the text generators). It'll be cheaper and much less restrictive.
Stable Diffusion API will use Stable Diffusion obviously, but the text gen AI API will use BLOOM, which is similar to GPT-3 but open source.
This is not to say I'm limiting myself to these two. In the future I plan to add way more open source AIs to make them more accessible (whisper and yolo seem to be a good next candidate), as well as adding in an option to fine tune your own BLOOM models you can download and keep.
If you're curious, you can check out and follow my twitter link in bio to keep tabs on my project. Discord link is in bio too.
Would love to hear your feedback once it releases, esp when we're giving out free credits!
Excited to see Zuplo open up for everyone to try! Other than the ones you worked on, were there any other tools you were inspired by when building Zuplo?
@ellenchisa \o/ - what a great question... Yes! So many; a few that really standout:
* Vercel - the speed of deployment and unlimited environments is one of our key differentiators for an API gateway
* Auth0 - building a product that is great for teams of all sizes, fro startups to enterprises alike. Also the programmability of their actions.
* Supabase - easy to use and is elegantly composed, use what you need to and extend where you need
Too many to mention.
I got an early demo of Zuplo and was BLOWN AWAY. I wish we would've had this at my last startup! Zuplo looks amazing 😍
@edsim thanks Ed, absolutely spot on - we can save folks as much as 70% against the usual suspects 👀
Congrats @joshtwist and team! We're very happy Zuplo customers and this latest release makes it even better!
Hi everyone, I’m Josh Twist, co-founder and CEO of Zuplo. Turns out the last time I posted to Product Hunt was when I launched Facebook Analytics in 2016, a product I was the PM on during my time at Facebook (don't @ me). I’ve dedicated my career to building tools for developers, including leading Payments Methods at Stripe and founding the Azure API Management team at Microsoft. Today I’m announcing a new, free tool for developers working on APIs.
Zuplo is a fully-managed API Management platform designed for developers. If you haven’t used API Management before, it can take care of all the stressful, boring things needed to securely ship an API. You get non-trivial but critical features like rate limiting, authentication, developer documentation, analytics, and more - out of the box in minutes.
My co-founder Nate Totten and I created Zuplo in 2021. Nate has also dedicated his career to building developer tools; he was an early member of the Auth0 team and led developer tooling at Salesforce.
Our vision is to democratize API management so it’s accessible to businesses and projects of all sizes. We do that by making API management easier to use, faster, and cheaper than the options on the market today. Our promise to you is that you will save time and money using Zuplo vs building all this infrastructure yourself.
The introduction of our Free plan is an important step towards realizing that goal.
🚀 Add Rate-limiting, authentication, and more, fast. Every public API needs this stuff, but you shouldn’t have to build it yourself. Zuplo makes it easy to add this to any API.
∞ Create unlimited environments and deploy a new environment to the edge in 20s with a simple Git commit. Zuplo is designed to fit the development workflow - it integrates seamlessly with git, with a gitops model that means deploying a new environment is as simple as making a commit.
👩💻 Zuplo is programmable. Extend your gateway using your superpower - coding!
📖 Developer portal - Out-of-the-box you get a Stripe-like developer portal where your customers can access your API documentation and their API keys. Check out the example portal we made with the Rick and Morty API https://rickandmorty.zuplo.app/_....
Our Free plan includes access for a single user, perfect for your next hackathon, side-gig, weekend project, or prototyping at your employer.
We’d love your support in realizing this vision; we’d love your feedback. Log into Zuplo at https://portal.zuplo.com/ and try:
- Exploring our Todo List example API
- Adding user-based Rate Limits to your API
- Setting up API key authentication for the Todo List sample
- Writing a custom policy that changes a request or response
As a special thank you to the PH community for your feedback, if you sign up for Zuplo, join our Discord community here: https://discord.gg/XMMHtAuAym , and comment with #HelloFromPH this week we’ll enable API key leak notifications (typically limited to our paid plan) for free!
Congratulations Zuplo team, this is so simple and clean API management. Very excited to give it a try!
Congrats Josh and Team! In practice, what have been some of the biggest workflow changes or surprises post-Zuplo implementation? (I sell APIs not build them fyi!)
@michael_sprague great question, tough one. I think the two largest have been
1/ how few startups use APIM today due to cost and difficulty - we’re trying to fix that and accelerate their journey
2/ how most IC engineers at larger companies see API management as inaccessible and guarded from them; which hinders innovation. We’re fixing that too!
I have been searching for an easy to use API gateway for a long time! The existing products even those that claim me to be developer friendly have long and complicated implementation periods. The Zuplo demo was like magic when we first saw it! Congrats on the launch 🎉
Hi Josh and team, I was wondering, how are some of your users using the programmability? What kind of custom policies are they writing? Thanks for your time!
@chantelle_boduel awesome question. People tend to start using Zuplo because of the serverless nature of our gateway and speedy gitops deployment... but they fall in love with the programmability. We have folks building all kinds of stuff
* a number of customers have built custom authentication policies in just a few lines of code
* others are using our dynamic rate-limiting to vary rate limits by payment plan
* one customer even has a custom policy that archives incoming requests to S3 storage - this helps in the event of them having downtime for processing later - it took only 20 minutes to write this and get live
Great to see Zuplo launching here. I've been using Zuplo for quite a while now, for key management, authorization, rate limiting, and request validation (I've probably missed something there). Josh and the team have been super responsive to my feedback, questions, and feature requests.
In a very, very good way, I haven't touched the configuration for months. It just works :)
Looking forward to seeing what 2023 brings!
Awesome work Josh and Nate and the rest of team Zuplo!
We've been using your platform for a little while now and it really is fantastic. After using Azure API Management for many years, Zuplo is well and truly many steps ahead already and I'm glad we made the switch.
I actually come to work each day looking forward to seeing what new challenges I can solve using all of the Zuplo functionality. Nothing I haven't been able to do so far.
Keep up the good work and looking forward to seeing future new and exciting features.
@reece_preston Thanks Reece, such kind words! Keep the great feedback coming and thanks for your support 🙏
Really great work here. In a world of serverless, these are the kind of foundational layers that will transform an ideas into a sustainable business. This makes running an API-first business 10x easier for indie-developers.
An amazing product that arrived at the perfect time for us. You shouldn't have to fight with technology and thankfully Zuplo meant we didn't have to. With an already feature-rich admin UI we were able to get up and running with a rate limited prototype in maybe an hour, from scratch? Incredible.
Zuplo "gets" the challenges that go into constructing a robust request pipeline, and provides the perfect model for writing policies (the building blocks for handling requests) as code, using a mature and well understood coding language.
But more than this; the team have been truly outstanding in their openness to ideas for enhancements, and the rate at which they were able to help solve any challenges we hit.
Cannot recommend Zuplo more highly, great work guys!
Been working with AWS API gateway for a couple years and often find myself banging my head against the wall getting configurations right. I imagine it’s similar for other gateway providers. Exciting to see a product-focused team drilling in deep on the ux problem, so I’ll be following this project closely and will try this free version on my next api project.
@ptbrodie we’ll be ready and waiting Patrick - it’s not just about experience either: https://zuplo.com/api-gateways/a...
@molmong @derstartupcfo 🙏 Thanks Sebastian - let me know how you get on if you try it out
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