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What we shipped in April

Workspace allow-lists, a dashboard refresh, two fewer modals, and a billing meter you can actually read.

Jon Walker··3 min read
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April changelog
April changelog

A short changelog for April. Nothing here is a headline feature. It is the kind of work that makes the product quieter to use, which is the work we like best.

Workspace allow-lists

Every API key can now be pinned to a list of domains. A key with an allow-list only answers requests from origins you named, so a key that leaks out of your front end is a key that does nothing anywhere else. New keys prompt you to set this on creation; existing keys keep working until you add one.

A dashboard refresh

One overview, fewer clicks

The console overview now shows usage, recent requests, and your current plan on a single screen. The old layout spread these across three pages; the new one does not.

Two fewer modals

Creating a key and testing an avatar were both modal dialogs. Both are now inline. A modal is a small tax on every use, and we were charging it twice.

A billing meter you can read

Billing now shows a single meter for profile views and a second for new people found, each with the threshold for your plan marked on it. You can see where you are and what the next step costs without doing arithmetic. The numbers use font-mono so they line up and stop moving as they update.

The small stuff

404 responses now carry a short, machine-readable reason so you can tell “no public photo” apart from “unknown handle.” The avatar tester remembers your last input. And the docs picked up a quickstart that genuinely takes about ninety seconds.

That is April. May has the embeddable usage widget we keep mentioning to customers, and we intend to stop mentioning it by shipping it.

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Jon Walker
Founder of Avtrz. Ships the changelog and reads every support email.
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