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Your API Keys Are Killing Your Productivity: Mitchell Jones of Lava.so
Mitchell Jones did not set out to build a payments company. He set out to solve a problem he could not stop running into: brilliant people paralyzed by plumbing. The API keys, the secret credentials, the subscription walls, the context switches. Every one of those friction points is a tax on thinking, and Mitchell decided the tax was too high.
Lava is his answer. At its core, it is an AI gateway that sits between end users and the services they need, handling authentication, payment, and routing so the human never has to. Install the Lava MCP, load your wallet, and your Claude Code or Codex…
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