Show HN: Turnkey API monetization and consumption management – Project X
projectx.bizHey HN,
Bringing a new API product to the market can be challenging in many ways. One of the most time-consuming tasks in this process is implementing API monetization.
User registration, authentication, subscription management, subscription plans, limit enforcement, premium features, usage metering, billing, invoicing, payment collection…
In many cases it’s more effort than developing the API itself. That’s why we at Project X are determined to equip API providers with a solution that will save them an enormous amount of time. It's like you got your own RapidAPI engine with 10x more features.
Combine several API into one product and sell it as a bundle, separate basic and premium endpoints, bill for a number characters in a request to Text-To-Speech API, impose hard and soft limits shared by many endpoints across several APIs, allow overages, offer pay per use model with usage cap, tiered and package pricing, define flexible rules of what is allowed in a certain product — all that is just a part of Project X offering.
And unlike other billing solutions, you don’t have to write a single line of integration code. Stripe, Chargebee, Moesif, Archetype — all these products require some effort to integrate with them.
Project X does not.
After setting up your API product with Project X, you get a checkout link for that product and can use it anywhere: on your developer portal, landing page, Reddit, Twitter, Indie Hackers, etc.
When your potential customers click the link, they’re immediately taken to the self-service checkout portal where they can subscribe, pay and start using your API products. In order to make the subscription process as smooth as possible, Project X offers a one-click login.
Create API –> Configure a product in the UI –> Get a checkout link –> Use it on your landing page or developer portal –> Cash in bank and happy customers.
It’s that simple. And no integration required.
Happy to get your feedback!