[jamesmcintyre]

Glad to hear the proxy is in the plans!

Yea you're probably right, most applications would best fit the proxy living close to the backend.

One reason to run on the edge would be if the edge "worker" could retrieve the required token(s) from an edge db and attach it as a header to the request going through to the BE app server so that it can then immediately make the requests directly to the 3rd party api. (Though this likely only simplifies the design for the devs a bit and performance is nearly identical)

Another reason, likely less common use case, is if you could keep certain data from 3rd party api's always fresh/cached at the edge. So for instance Cloudflare worker KV store has an api to update records (perhaps from a normal nango server instance that's maintaining updating/syncing the records) so that this data can be "injected" as json into the body of an html response. This is definitely a niche use case though, lol.

Congrats on YC and the launch!