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underclass: an OpenAI-compatible pooling proxy that pins sessions to one account (prompt cache stays warm), cools quota-exhausted subscriptions until their window resets, and fails fast with the earliest Retry-After when the whole pool is dry.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 163 upvotes (top 5%) · 0 views

Niche: ai api gateways and proxies · 336 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -46% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Model & infra
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • openai
  • openai-proxy-load-balancer

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Could you build this?

Yes An OpenAI reverse proxy handling sticky sessions, quota/rate-limit tracking, and fast-fail fallbacks is standard network and routing logic easily built in Go or Node.js.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 25 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #2 of 26 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 292 days after the earliest competitor.

  • PoolGuard · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • opencode-unlimited-proxy · github · 2026-10-16 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • geoclass · github · 2026-10-17 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.36
  • GOSH.AI DePools · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
  • sub2api-state-kit · github · 2026-09-20 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.35
  • LowSchool AI · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.34
  • Proxy · ph · 2026-11-14 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.34
  • whalegate · github · 2026-10-23 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.33

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