Show HN: Orthogonal
Show HN: Orthogonal is We just posted orthogonal on hacker news if you'd like to check it out!. It is ranked #179 on the Dev Radar, in Backend & APIs, first seen 18 days ago and shared in 6 posts (57.6k views).
Show HN: Orthogonal – One integration for agents to discover and pay for APIs | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Show HN: Orthogonal – One integration for agents to discover and pay for APIs ( orthogonal.com ) 12 points by berasogut 16 days ago | hide | past | favorite Hey HN, we're Bera and Christian, and we're building Orthogonal. Orthogonal gives AI agents one integration to discover, access, and pay for APIs. Think OpenRouter for the APIs that AI agents use. We currently have 50+ API providers and 700+ API endpoints across company, people, financial, and web data, available through our MCP…
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In Baghdad in 1993, Rabah Shihab wrote Iraq’s first commercial video game, Babylonian Twins, in 72,758 lines of 68000 assembly. It never found a publisher. But 33 years later, Claude read the source code and got it running in Godot in just an evening. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550375
— @hackernews, 15 days ago · 504 likes · see the post
Whether you realize it or not, your coding agent has opinions about your stack. Across nearly 17,000 experiments with Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, @ArmatureInc found clear favorites, like Stripe for payments, Neon for databases, and more. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557206
— @hackernews, 11 days ago · 211 likes · see the post
check us out on hacker news! what apis do you want your agents to have access to?
— @chrisspickett, 18 days ago · 6 likes · see the post
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Show HN: Orthogonal in numbers
- Rank on the Dev Radar: #179 of 1348
- Shared in 6 posts by 5 accounts: @hackernews, @chrisspickett, @InfiniStrategy, @AITrailblazerQ
- 57.6k views on those posts
- First seen 18 days ago, last shared 51 min ago
- Pricing seen by Jev: not stated
- Market: Backend & APIs
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