Apexly
Custom domains for your SaaS customers in one API call
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Apexly is a custom domains API for B2B SaaS. Send one request with your customer's hostname; they add one DNS record on a hosted page that detects their DNS provider. Apexly verifies it from three resolvers, issues and renews the Let's Encrypt certificate, supports apex domains, and forwards traffic to your app with a signed request.
PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: domain and email hosting services · 64 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- API
- SaaS
- Developer Tools
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More like this: all 64 launches in domain and email hosting services →
Could you build this?
Partial The API, DNS verification flow, and ACME certificate automation are all buildable with existing libraries and tools like Caddy or certbot. Running reliable edge traffic forwarding and certificate issuance at scale, within Let's Encrypt rate limits, needs serious infrastructure expertise.
What it would actually take: A real version would combine a REST API and job queue with ACME clients, multi-resolver DNS checks, and a TLS-terminating edge proxy that handles SNI routing for many thousands of hostnames. The hard parts are high-availability edge infrastructure, certificate lifecycle and rate-limit management, and security isolation between tenants. This requires experience in networking, PKI, and distributed systems operations.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 124 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 125 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
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