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Hi HN,
I’m building Fairvisor — a programmable rate limiting and API governance layer.
Most rate limiters today feel operationally incomplete:
Redis counters glued onto gateways
hardcoded configs
weak visibility into why requests were blocked
little connection between traffic policy and business logic
Fairvisor treats rate limiting as a governance problem instead of just request counting.
Current focus:
centralized policy management
edge enforcement
tenant/country-aware rules
explainable decisions
observability integrations
programmable traffic policies
I’m also experimenting with a lock-free/event-driven dataplane instead of the classic “everything goes through Redis” architecture.
Some example policies:
AI agents may consume at most N% of shared capacity
expensive endpoints automatically tighten limits under load
different limits by geography, tenant, or plan
soft throttling instead of binary blocking
Mainly interested in feedback from people operating public APIs or AI infrastructure.
Especially curious:
Do you think API governance becomes its own infrastructure category, or are existing gateway tools already enough?
ForesynWanna keep in touch?
Built this solo over a weekend. Soft-launching before the HN post on Monday. If you scored a draft and the prediction either nailed it or whiffed, I want to know.