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Stop letting your hackathon API keys rot

Backboard has launched a unified API that lets developers consolidate API credits from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and xAI into a single endpoint with free state management. The platform, supported by Dev.to and MLH, eliminates the need to manage multiple SDKs and provides built-in memory and routing across all models. Developers can drop in their existing keys from any provider and access stateful threads without setting up a vector database or writing session glue code.

read1 min publishedJun 3, 2026

You've got OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and xAI credits sitting in five dashboards. Plug them all into one API and get free state management, courtesy of Dev.to and MLH.

If you've done a hackathon or run a startup, you have API credits scattered everywhere. OpenAI from one event. Anthropic from another. Gemini and xAI from your last sprint. All sitting in separate dashboards, half-used, slowly expiring.

Backboard fixes that. One API, your keys, every model.

Drop in keys from any of these providers and route across all of them behind a single Backboard API:

You keep your credits. You keep your rates. You stop stitching seven SDKs together. One key in front of all of them, with memory, routing, and stateful threads built in.

Memory is the part everyone skips at a hackathon because it's a pain to build. Not here. State management on Backboard is free, brought to you by Dev.to and MLH.

Stateful threads at the message level. No vector DB to spin up, no session glue code. Your agent remembers across the whole build.

pip install backboard-sdk
npm install backboard-sdk
python
from backboard import Backboard

bb = Backboard(api_key="your_backboard_key")

thread = bb.threads.create(assistant_id="your_assistant")
bb.messages.create(thread_id=thread.id, content="Remember this for later.")

Got tokens from a hackathon? Credits your startup was granted? Put them to work instead of letting them expire.

Add your keys: app.backboard.io/dashboard/api-keys

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