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openai-proxy

Local Responses API proxy for the ChatGPT Excel backend, with client-side tool forwarding.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 26, 2026 · 51 upvotes (top 17%) · 0 views

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

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes This is a lightweight local proxy server that intercepts and redirects ChatGPT Excel backend API requests while forwarding tool-calling client-side. Writing such HTTP/WebSocket proxies with request rewriting is a classic task well-suited for AI-assisted development.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 516 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #68 of 517 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.

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