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glimow

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    Comment #39240227

    Sure, we count Developers who committed to the API repository in the last three months. Hope that makes it more clear!

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    Comment #39240210

    Sure, Escape and Akita are quite different: 1) Escape is primarily for Security Engineers, Akita is more for developers 2) Escape discovers API with external scans, Akita discovers…

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    Comment #39240181

    We created specific safeguards for production mode; for instance, Escape doesn't launch any DELETE requests in prod mode. You can also manually configure an allowlist/blocklist of …

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    Comment #39222730

    Hey there, so py-multiauth is a great project that we love, but it didn't get enough attention from the community for us to afford to maintain it outside of our main codebase. Sinc…

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    Comment #39221399

    Thank you! Hope you will like it

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    Comment #39221383

    Thank you for the positive vibes. We try to make our product as straightforward as possible. It’s a long journey for such technical topic but it gets better everyday. And we listen…

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    Comment #39221292

    The « Launch HN » posts, like this one, follow quite standard community guidelines that includes having a detailed description of how the product works to bring value to technical …

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    Comment #39219061

    Hello, although we know HN's rules, some of our users don't. They just tried to help without telling us. I guess we can be proud that they are our users and wanted to help. There w…

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    Comment #39218987

    Hello motoxpro, the pricing page is accessible inside the product during the free trial. Although, by nature, the security market is mostly enterprise, we do have plans for startup…

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    Comment #39218936

    Hello btown, you are indeed raising legitimate questions here. You are right in the sense that using automated security testing tools in production creates a risk. But there are wo…

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    Comment #39217956

    Thank you, yes, we originally supported GraphQL only and released REST scanning support a few months ago. We plan to support all types of APIs ultimately.

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    Comment #39217944

    Hello, we limited the registration to personal email because too many people were trying to scan APIs that didn't belong to them. Mind you that you can also use your personal GitHu…

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    Launch HN: Escape (YC W23) – Discover and secure all your APIs

    Hey HN! We’re Tristan and Antoine, co-founders of Escape ( https://escape.tech ). We use AI inspired by chess to help security engineers and developers discover and secure APIs cre…

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    Comment #35086776

    I agree that there is a lot of room for improvement. We are a small team and we had to start somewhere to have feedback from the community and improve accordingly :) Thanks for the…

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    Comment #35086688

    This is on the way!

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    Comment #35086683

    This is an experimental research we did mostly because we thought it was cool and new. There are limitations indeed, though if you compare similar APIs with similar business intent…

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    Comment #35086507

    All hail the holy API :))

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    Comment #35086485

    I agree with your point, yet we thought the data we gathered could be interesting, for instance we observe that ~60% of routes have human readable comments, but less than 10% have …

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    Comment #35086430

    We used Algolia free tier for the search but all the credits were consumed :') I take this as a learning for our next side project

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    Comment #35086414

    We use Algolia free tier for the search, perhaps we have reached the limit :')

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    Comment #35086398

    Author here. Love your ideas! I've thought about tagging - I'd even love to have automated tagging of APIs from routes names etc.. but I'm super excited about sorting and compariso…