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Hand-drawn editorial illustration of a turnstile letting one person through while a crowd of identical paper figures presses against it, a coral coin purse safe on the far side, on a near-black background in indigo-violet and off-white

Bots hammering your vibe-coded app, or a surprise API bill? The fix is a rate limit

A script can press your sign-up or AI button thousands of times, and you pay for each press. Where the limits already exist (Supabase Auth, Cloudflare), where they don't, and the spending cap that stops the bill.

Aliteq Team · Oct 4 · 7 min

Isometric diorama of a turnstile gate letting a small, steady number of figures through per minute while a crowd waits their turn behind it

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One script, 10,000 fake signups overnight: the guardrail most vibe-coded apps ship without

A rate limit caps how many requests someone can fire in a window, so bots, bugs and abuse can't swamp your app or your bill. Why every public endpoint needs one. Tap to watch it hold.

Aliteq Team · Sep 26 · 4 min