{"slug": "stop-letting-your-hackathon-api-keys-rot", "title": "Stop letting your hackathon API keys rot", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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](https://dev.to/) and [MLH.](https://www.mlh.com/)\n\nIf 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.\n\nBackboard fixes that. One API, your keys, every model.\n\nDrop in keys from any of these providers and route across all of them behind a single Backboard API:\n\nYou 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.\n\nMemory 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](https://dev.to) and [MLH](https://mlh.io).\n\nStateful threads at the message level. No vector DB to spin up, no session glue code. Your agent remembers across the whole build.\n\n```\npip install backboard-sdk\n# or\nnpm install backboard-sdk\npython\nfrom backboard import Backboard\n\nbb = Backboard(api_key=\"your_backboard_key\")\n\n# Your OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini keys are already wired in.\n# Memory and state come free.\nthread = bb.threads.create(assistant_id=\"your_assistant\")\nbb.messages.create(thread_id=thread.id, content=\"Remember this for later.\")\n```\n\nGot tokens from a hackathon? Credits your startup was granted? Put them to work instead of letting them expire.\n\nAdd your keys: [app.backboard.io/dashboard/api-keys](https://app.backboard.io/dashboard/api-keys)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-letting-your-hackathon-api-keys-rot", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/backboardio/stop-letting-your-hackathon-api-keys-rot-542j", "published_at": "2026-06-03 22:12:15+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-03 22:41:27.374012+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-products", "generative-ai", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Gemini", "xAI", "Dev.to", "MLH", "Backboard"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-letting-your-hackathon-api-keys-rot", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-letting-your-hackathon-api-keys-rot.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-letting-your-hackathon-api-keys-rot.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-letting-your-hackathon-api-keys-rot.jsonld"}}