RateGuard
Centralized API rate limiting, built for modern services
Details
- External ID
- 1245811
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- eGuard
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- API, Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 12, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
RateGuard is a lightweight, self-hosted API rate limiting service for modern applications. It centralizes rate-limit decisions behind a simple HTTP API and supports token bucket, fixed window, and sliding window algorithms with Redis and Lua. Deploy it with Docker, manage rules from a web dashboard, and integrate with Node.js or Python using the official SDKs or using APIs.
Enrichment
- Theme
- proxy, dns, and networking tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- api rate limiting service
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a standard backend utility wrapping common Redis Lua scripts for token-bucket and sliding-window algorithms behind an HTTP API with a basic dashboard.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 28 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #16 of 29 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 294 days after the earliest competitor.
- genpark-adaptive-token-rate-limiter-skill · github · 2026-09-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- genpark-adaptive-token-rate-limiter-skill · github · 2026-09-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- UsageFlow · hn · 2025-11-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- PulseGuard · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- PoolGuard · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- genpark-token-bucket-rate-limiter-burst-controller-skill · github · 2026-09-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- DSGuard · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- SpecificProxy · hn · 2026-01-11 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
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