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Mike Bates

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Zeepler

Bates Solutions · own product · Mar 2025 to now

A JSON-to-ZPL label API with accounts, API keys, usage metering and Square billing, run in two AWS regions.

Bates Solutions' label API: send label data as JSON, get back ZPL for Zebra thermal printers. Self-service accounts, hashed API keys, per-label metering and monthly Square billing, with customers in the US or Canada and their accounts, keys and usage kept in the region they chose.

  • 207 merged PRs
  • 2 AWS regions, each customer's account and usage in one
  • 3,073 junk sign-ups found and removed

stack: Next.js, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito, Square, Terraform

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