pay.sh
Discover, access, and pay for any API autonomously
Details
- External ID
- 1136774
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- pay.sh
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- May 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 347
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7596153846153846
- Tags
- API, Open Source, Developer Tools
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
In collaboration with Google Cloud, we're building the open source real-time payment infrastructure for AI agents so they can discover and pay per call for any API.
Enrichment
- Theme
- payments, billing, and wallet infrastructure
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- autonomous api discovery and payment
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building an API proxy catalog is straightforward, but setting up non-custodial crypto/fiat micro-payment rails (e.g. Solana Pay / x402 HTTP protocols) with real-time settlement and fraud mitigation requires specialized fintech and smart contract engineering.
What it would actually take: The platform requires an ultra-low-latency reverse proxy that intercepts HTTP requests, computes per-call dynamic billing, and verifies signed cryptographic payment receipts (like Solana transactions or virtual cards) before proxying upstream. It requires custom smart contracts, RPC node infrastructure, and an autonomous signer wallet protocol for agents. Specialized knowledge of Web3 payment standards, low-latency edge networking, and security auditing is necessary.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 77 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 78 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 187 days after the earliest competitor.
- Pay.sh · hn · 2026-05-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Orthogonal · hn · 2026-09-01 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- MeetStream AI · ph · 2026-08-20 · 179 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Cloudflare Wallets · ph · 2026-08-05 · 274 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Orthogonal - Agentic Payments for APIs · yc · 2026-01-29 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Rill · ph · 2026-09-24 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Fivemetrics · ph · 2026-09-25 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Agent-to-agent payment. Your agents can pay each other · hn · 2026-09-04 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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