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.

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!

Congrats @joshtwist and team! We're very happy Zuplo customers and this latest release makes it even better!

Zuplo runs "at the edge"? How are you hosting Zuplo?

💪🏼 right product for right time - reinventing boring but important API management market - build faster, programmable, and saves tons of money - what's not to love?

Super annoying dealing with APIs especially as someone currently developing an AI API for developers, so this will definitely come in handy.

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!

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!

I like the UI design very much Congrats on the launch team!

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?

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 🎉

I love the GitHub integration!

Exciting product, addressing a need that every startup has right now!

Congratulations Zuplo team, this is so simple and clean API management. Very excited to give it a try!

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.

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 😍

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.

Wonderful work Josh, Nate, and team Zuplo! Love how easy it is for customers to build custom auth policies with just a few lines of code. The dynamic rate-limiting feature to vary rate limits is also nifty.

Great demo - love the integration with GitOps! Can't wait to try it out

Congrats on the launch!