I created rate limiting service over weekend, should I grow it?
Hey 👋
My name is Aaron Delasy, and I'm creating apps for 8 years already, but finally got enough confidence to start making them public!
This app - RateLimit.Org, is the service I created in a weekend. The main idea is very simple - register limiter, use limiter to query endpoints and forget about 429 problem.
The main gotcha was a mechanism that is fast enough and allows many connections to many different websites and at the same time keeps track of how many connections are open right now. So I built this mechanism, the rebuilt it, then again, then once again, then again and it finally worked!
Reason I started building this service was Airtable rate limiting. When you have one API key and multiple apps that use it - it becomes a nightmare. Same for ChatGPT nowadays and many other services that have limits on their APIs.
My initial idea was to just let people use it fully free, or spin off their own instance (which I did for one company). Now I think I have some time to think about improving this service and selling to companies as a part of white-label license (not sure if I can call it so).
BUT... When it comes to generating ideas on growing a service, my mind is completely empty, I'm not a marketing or sales guy, so I would really appreciate my fellow indie hackers advice on how I can grow RateLimit.Org?
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I don't understand how it works. From the site it looks like application calls your api and your api calls service like airtable and caches the result and bypasses ratelimits however i don't see where api key is provided for the service.
Or it is simply providing centralized acccounting service and app has to make calls to service after checking with this api?
my bad, will add short explanation how it works or maybe a picture on home page...
but for now:
How to use it:
This way you re-route all requests to ratelimit.org which makes sure for you to avoid 429 problem.
Looks good! I think a very interesting feature would be to instead of the user sending the uuid, it could send an custom ID (e.g an internal user ID or email), this way it would integrate more seamlessly with the user's flow.
sounds like a good idea for a white-label license! unfortunately for public use I'm forced to use UUID in order to avoid people using other people's limiters...
Nice. Would be great to see your app listed as a IH product page here. Then we can follow, and track your timeline.
here you go: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/ratelimit-org
thx. Is this a tool only for developers or for small to medium size businesses too? If latter, can you please describe what task they could likely be doing so they would then go hunting to find your product.
only for developers for now 🙂
Has it been posted to the IH developer group?
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