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Dev tools · October 17, 2017

Backplane

Managed API to connect software to anything, anywhere

Backplane launched on October 17, 2017 with 7 votes, #1,215 of 3,169 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

What it does

Backplane is a network and an API to bind services, applications, and their end-users that exist anywhere in a dramatically more secure, and easier to control way, all without any additional infrastructure, provisioning, or glue-code to keep them together.

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