James Miller

James Miller

Develops WhatsApp extensions
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AI Gateways: from “just a proxy” to the GenAI control plane

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.

Nika

2mo ago

How to find and get more support from active Product Hunt users?

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".

Nika

2mo ago

How much time (as founders) do you spend on social media to build your personal brand?

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.

French software engineer in Warsaw

Hi everyone!

I'm a French software engineer living in Warwaw.

I've discovered amazing tools here in product hunt.

Well Intelligence is live on Product Hunt 😻

The founder tax nobody talks about
You started a business to build something amazing. Instead, you're spending entire Sundays chasing invoices, copying numbers between platforms, and trying to figure out if that Stripe payment actually matches your accounting software.

One full day every month. Gone. Just like that.

What Well Intelligence actually does:

  • Auto-connects everything - Gmail, WhatsApp, any billing portal flows directly to your accountant or GDrive

  • AI answers your money questions - "How much runway do I have?" gets answered in seconds, not spreadsheet hours

  • Think ChatGPT for your finances - but it actually knows your numbers and builds charts on the fly

Ansh Deb

3mo ago

Which apps or tools have drastically improved your startup/workflow?

Hey everyone,

I m curious to know: What are some of the apps, tools, or services you ve discovered that have truly transformed the way you work or build your startup/product, or basically helped you in day-to-day work productivity? It could be anything from project management, productivity hacks, automation, communication, or even wellness tools that help you stay focused.

Nika

3mo ago

How much money would you be willing to spend from your own savings to start a business?

Are you the kind of person who believes in your dream enough to burn through most of your savings on it?

For millionaires, this might not be a big deal, but what about people with a typical 9 5 job? I see how much a solid marketing campaign costs on just one platform (often the monthly expense is equal to at least a full year s salary).

The day before yesterday, a friend told me he and his wife are closing their restaurant, which they opened just six months ago. They had taken a loan for it, which makes it even worse.

OpenAIp/openaiAshok Nayak

3mo ago

How do you approach Context Engineering when building with OpenAI models?

Lately, I have been experimenting with how to feed context into GPT models more effectively.

For example, when fine-tuning or working with larger context windows, I have noticed that the dilemma is in organizing the surrounding information, rather than the prompt itself. Last week, I came to know that it's called Context Engineering.

Nika

3mo ago

What is your opinion on artificial intelligence companions (their harm and regulation)?

Currently reading about the move of California:

The state has become the first U.S. state to regulate AI companion chatbots. Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 243, a new law requiring companies like OpenAI, Meta, Character AI, and Replika to implement safety protocols protecting children and vulnerable users.