API monetization with its own billing engine built from scratch

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API monetization with its own billing engine built from scratch is active in the show hn launch space.

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It started as an attempt to replicate some of RapidAPI's functionality in Go around Oct. 2020. Just for fun.The first public version was released in Dec. 2022 (after I got hit by the job market turbulence) and had no billing capabilities at all, but it allowed API providers to configure "subscriptions plans" more flexibly than with RapidAPI. Like, you could include several APIs in one plan, exclude certain endpoints from low-cost plans, block some API calls based on request attributes, apply rate limits per group of endpoints from different APIs, etc. And manually create subscriptions, which allowed users to access the API in accordance with the configured rules.After a month, it became clea

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