James Miller

A year ago, an AI/LLM Gateway felt like a thin layer: auth + simple routing across a few model providers. That era s over. As teams ship agentic apps with many moving parts (models, tools via MCP, prompts, guardrails) the complex problems are now control, standardization, and observability.

What a modern gateway really does:

• Unified interface & routing: Swap models/providers without code changes; policy-based routing (latency/cost/quality), failover.

• Centralized access & governance: One place for keys, RBAC, per-team quotas, audit logs, and data residency.

• Guardrails at the edge: PII redaction, safety/moderation, jailbreak & prompt-injection checks, tool permissioning.

• Experimentation & evals: Prompt/version management, playgrounds to connect models + MCPs and build agents

• Deep observability: Traces for prompts/responses/tools, tokens/cost, latency SLOs, drift signals; caching/rate-limits/batching.

I noticed this question in one of my discussions and thought it would make sense to share my approach if I were to get in touch with more active users of this platform.

Here s how I would find them and connect with them (via X, LinkedIn or other channel) You can find them :

1. Check people who log in daily (Streaks).

2. Look at users who actively comment under discussions and launches.

3. Connect with active hunters.

4. You can try reaching out to the internal Product Hunt team.

5. Explore WA, Telegram, and Signal PH groups where people are active and reach out to them.

6. Check users who launch a few days before you they re likely to put effort into the platform too, so they still have that "launching vibe".

I've noticed that more and more founders are building their personal brand and prioritising it over building their company's brand (the company account then just reposts the founder's thoughts).

I notice this especially with solo founders.