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loooong list culminating in ratelimits.dev

some holes in the ultra-niche cloud services tools market are holes for a reason

Poking around your site it seems like an excellent service. I'm curious if you could expand on why you think this is a failure and what challenges you experienced that make you think the major cloud providers deliberately leave this open.

thank you!

'failure' in that I don't know how to market it. In general I think businesses my size need a focused go-to-market strategy -- what is the profile of your first N customers, how do you get in front of them, what's the immediate 1-line value prop that makes your product worth $ + risk + integration effort.

I don't know the GTM for this one.

not saying aws is 'deliberately' leaving this open, more like most backends roll their own in this area because stack compatibility and low-latency are key.

When I searched for something like that, all I found was to hide my serverless behind RapidAPI, which also include costumer facing payment processing.

hadn't heard of rapidapi, thanks for the tip

what made you specifically search for rate limiting?

fear of serverless cost getting out of hand, mainly at the start. In AWS, you charges for each call even if blocked by WAF or whatever, so all logic may only protect your app but not your wallet from abuse

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