Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end

Hello HN,

I’ve always loved building frontend-only apps—those you can prototype over a weekend, host for free on GitHub Pages, and scale to millions of users. Unfortunately, AI-enabled apps complicate things, as exposing your OpenAI key to the world is obviously a no-go. This also means mobile developers often have to run their own servers.

That’s why I built ServerlessAI, an API gateway that lets you securely call multiple AI providers directly from client side using OpenAI-compatible APIs. You can authenticate users through any identity provider, like Google or Apple, and set per-user request or spending quotas. You can also define an allowlist for endpoints and models. To monetize, you can apply different quotas for various user tiers.

To start, I recommend checking out our tutorials, where we walk you through building a complete, deployment-ready AI app in 5 minutes. We’ve got tutorials for React, Next.js, and iOS: https://serverlessai.dev/docs/tutorials/

Our long term vision is to offer the best toolkit for AI developers at every stage of their project’s lifecycle. If OpenAI / Anthropic / etc are AWS, we want to be the Supabase / Upstash / etc. We are building optional out-of-box tools for authentication and payment management, so you can roll out your prototype faster. In the future, we want to provide the best prompt engineering tools for fine-tuning, A/B testing, and backtesting, as well as the best observability tools.

We’d love to hear your feedback. Thanks for stopping by!

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