Show HN: Why every mobile AI app accidentally becomes a backend company

I built this after repeatedly running into the same problem as a mobile developer using AI APIs. Best practice says you shouldn’t ship API keys in a mobile app, but the alternative is always the same: spin up a backend server that does nothing except proxy requests to OpenAI. That server adds cost, complexity, scaling work, and maintenance to forward a request and hide a key. I kept rebuilding this “useless” backend over and over, and eventually realized: if you’re forced to have a backend anyway, it should actually do something valuable.

That insight led to the development of a simple, secure AI proxy that handles key management, rate limits, usage controls, promotions, and upgrades. So mobile developers can keep their frontends clean without managing custom backend infrastructure.