James Perkins

Post for Me scaled a social media API to $13K MRR in under a year on Unkey. Keys from day one, then they moved hosting over too and deleted Render, Railway + Vercel. Auth + deployments, one platform. unkey.com/case-studies...

Post for Me scaled a social media API to $13K MRR in under a year on Unkey. Keys from day one, then they moved hosting over too and deleted Render, Railway + Vercel. Auth + deployments, one platform. unkey.com/case-studies...

ap-southeast-1 is live! Unkey now runs in Singapore, bringing lower latency to every request across APAC. Deploy in one click.

June was pretty good: 33 billion billable verification 4 billion billable stand alone ratelimits 5000+ builds millions and millions of requests through our gateway compute and egress is still free @unkey.com for another month

I dunno read it, don't fucking read it. This is what happens sometimes in fundraising :) dub.sh/r1djCuS

when a developer has to market anything they’ve made.

Vim rebrand is crazy

The @unkey.com team rolled up their sleeves and built a flexible auth abstraction layer. This was a long winding road so we wrote a blog post that covers: - The problem - Our solution - Challenges - Lessons we learnt along the way. go.unkey.com/local-auth

Startup mode: ON. 🛠️ This May 7, we’re bringing together @tazsingh.com (Guild) & @jamesperkins.dev (Unkey) for an unfiltered convo on what it really takes to go from zero to launch. 📍 1PM EDT — Torc Virtual Meetup Come learn, ask, and connect. #BuildInPublic #TechStartup #FoundersJourney

Our new API Settings screen is designed for intuitive control over your API configurations. Adjust default bytes, prefixes, and manage security settings seamlessly. Less friction, more innovation

The team at @unkey.com are really cooking with the dashboard refresh. - Key creation with immediate feedback - Multiple ratelimits on a single key - Metadata with JSON formatter - Warning when you dismiss that we only show it once Live in production now.

Finally! Zed is getting ready to launch its own Agent panel. I've been playing with it for the last month Let's talk about. youtu.be/NWPziShZsBw

There is nothing more satisfying than running less tests.

Built a bot using Vision to help me unlock a trophy i’ve been after in a game for 5 years. totally worth the days of figuring out how it all worked

If you Vibe code, and need to rate limit your app. We have the most generous free tier at @unkey.com - 150,000 requests that allow access to your application If you get attacked and we rate limit them, none of that is counted towards your usage stats. Enjoy 🫡

Go is superior. The team built one of the most delightful HTTP libs with three core principles. - Simple - Clarity - Efficient It also makes testing easy or so they tell me. www.unkey.com/blog/zen

Death stranding has one of the best opening hour. Even after third time through.

I am so excited to announce we updated @unkey.com pricing - Bigger free tier... 150k requests - Usage based pricing is gone - Tiered pricing started at $25 - Almost 5x cheaper - No charge for overages Go build some cool stuff unkey.com/pricing

AI is great but I dunno how to feel about AI marketing so I of course made a video youtu.be/qiiZycFlIVk

The Zed.dev edit predictions is so good, just tab my way to refactoring glory. So after a long break.... I made a video about it youtu.be/9spxh61FuGw?...

Explain to me, like I'm a CEO why DeepSeek R-1 is the next big thing and not a hype train situation.

While companies are returning to office, because "YoU cAnT bE pRoDuCtIvE aT hOmE" At @unkey.com, we are doubling down, we were always remote, but now we are an async company. How we are doing this? Well... you can read for yourself engineering.unkey.com/company/meet...

Distance runners stop buying chews. Just buy nerds gummy clusters very berry. Gu chews: 90 calories, 22 g total carbs and 40 mg of sodium Nerds: 100 cals 25 carbs 45mg sodium. Gu per packet( 2 serving): $2.50 Nerds (8 servings) $4.50 Thanks for coming to my ted talk

Cursor is kinda good huh?

Social media about to save me 3.5k a month what a win.

Blood oranges don’t get enough credit.

I'm hiring! Craftwork is looking for an experienced, fullstack Rails Product Engineer to join our small but mighty team of devs. If you're self-driven, curious, and a good communicator, I'd love to talk to you about it. Get more details and apply here - www.ycombinator.com/companies/cr...

Sometimes a simple shirt can make an entire day, month or holiday season.

The BBC has the worst cache and layout shift in the planet. 10x engineering + 1x User experience

Advent of code…. More like advent of fml I don’t write enough code anymore

Off in the mountains! Seee ya in 4 days

Kendrick’s new album is a 6.5 - lyrically 5 - beats 8 No further questions.

Thanksgiving success… Baking gluten free rolls and them not being hard as a rock or made of rubber.

what’s something you’re grateful for?

Is pep… ten hag in disguise?

What is a McDonald’s holiday pie?

I’ve never been more excited to travel home. 14 days in a hotel room, just grinding VC meetings, founder meetings etc is great. But not having home comforts, my partner or just normality is rough on the mental health.

I fixed a production issue in a movie theater and here's what it taught me about B2B sales.