I made a local proxy for AI tool calls to keep my API keys safe
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HN · launched May 5, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 1 view
Niche: ai agent security and monitoring tools · 297 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight local HTTP reverse proxy that intercepts outbound LLM tool/API calls to inject sensitive credentials before forwarding the requests to third-party endpoints.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Integrate with local micro-VM (boxlite)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1042 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #922 of 1043 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 188 days after the earliest competitor.
- Chrome extension that blocks API keys from being pasted into AI tools · hn · 2026-05-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- preflight · github · 2026-09-20 · 76 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- ai-proxy-workflow · github · 2026-10-05 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- I made a guardrail against AI outreach slop (API/MCP) · hn · 2026-11-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- PromptGuard---AI-Privacy-Sanitizer · github · 2026-10-21 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- laya-guard · github · 2026-10-11 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- key-to-magpie · github · 2026-10-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ProxyCeptor · github · 2026-09-29 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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