Ductape – Build back end integrations once, reuse them anywhere
Hey HN, We built Ductape to make backend integrations reusable and environment-agnostic. You define the logic once (e.g. payments, auth, notifications) and externalize provider-specific stuff like API keys, endpoints, and retries into a config. That logic can then be reused across services, projects, and environments without rewriting code. It’s like decoupling your service logic from your infrastructure. You can even switch providers by changing config, not code. We’re using it to save time, reduce bugs, and simplify service expansion. Curious what you think. We’ve been building quietly and…
Ductape – Build back end integrations once, reuse them anywhere launched on May 5, 2025 with 29 votes, #710 of 7,905 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Ductape is a backend integration platform that lets developers write integration logic once and reuse it across services, projects, and environments. Users define payment, authentication, or notification flows once, then externalize provider-specific details like API keys and endpoints into configuration files. This approach allows teams to switch providers by changing config rather than rewriting code, reducing duplication and bugs. It's designed for backend engineers building applications that need multiple third-party integrations.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Composable backend blocks in a workbench you already understand. One SDK for APIs, data, queues, storage, and workflows.
Ductape gives you and your agents a simple, shared way to build backend systems. It takes care of environments, auth, monitoring, sessions, and error handling for you, so you can connect your APIs, databases, storage, and events and ship something that actually works in production. Every surface you need to model, configure, and run composable backends. Backend and frontend packages for TypeScript, NestJS, JavaScript, React, and Vue. One surface for every component you configure. Visual control plane for products, apps, environments, and resources. Cloud-hosted or deployed in your VPC, same UI and APIs. Native workbench clients with the same experience as cloud, connect to cloud or your…from ductape.app
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, We built Ductape to make backend integrations reusable and environment-agnostic. You define the logic once (e.g. payments, auth, notifications) and externalize provider-specific stuff like API keys, endpoints, and retries into a config. That logic can then be reused across services, projects, and environments…
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