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The wait is over! - it’s time to celebrate the champion startups of the world. Shout out to all of the participants in our ! You did a wonderful job showcasing your incredible startups and powering through another year. 2023 Startups of the Year is a community-driven voting platform brought to you by HackerNoon that recognizes and celebrates tech startups changing technology and the world for the better. The award started on May 8th, 2023, where the internet nominated and voted for 30k startups around the world. The voting period remained open until December 31, 2023, and now we are here with the winner announcement after a comprehensive evaluation by the HackerNoon team. Startups of the Year 2023 To see the top 3 startups in each respective city, visit and pick a city. hackernoon.com/startups You’ll get a little surprise 😉 Here are the Startups of the Year Regional Announcements: North America Europe Asia Africa South America Oceania Misc/Remote From all of us at HackerNoon, thank YOU for your excellent campaign perseverance 🥺 This year has been awesome! Startups of the Year 2023 is concluded with 623k+ total votes, up from 215k+ votes in the inaugural startup competition. We look forward to seeing you again in the next campaign (stay tuned 😉)! Without further ado, let us kick off the announcement by celebrating the cities with top votes per region for 2023 🎉 North America (11,697 votes): Winner: Bloomfilter Cleveland, Ohio (8,835 votes) - Winner: SerpApi Austin, Texas , California (5,564 votes) - Winner: Finch San Francisco (4,258 votes) - Winner: RELAYTO SoMa, California - (3339 votes) Winner: Windscribe Toronto, Canada, North America (3304 votes) - Winner: Vouched Seattle (2716 votes) - Winner: Seccuri Palo Alto, CA, North America (2671 votes) - Winner: Salsa Valley Miami, FL, North America (2,613 votes) - Winner: Majhi Group Manhattan, New York (2423 votes) - Winner: Flieber, Inc. New York City, NY, North America See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, North America, here Europe (45,612 votes) - Winner: Algomo London, UK (2,344votes) - Winner: Data Lake Warsaw, Poland (1,955 votes) - Winner: Hoken Tech Bari, Italy (1716 votes) - Winner: Not8 Amsterdam, Netherlands (1657 votes) - Winner: KYVE Frankfurt Am Main, Germany (1566 votes) - Winner: BazaIT Kyiv, Ukraine (1496 votes) - Winner:  Unity Network Tallinn, Estonia (1,478 votes) - Winner: Volcaino Ghent, Belgium (1,288 votes) - Winner: Owl Me Dublin, Ireland (1198 votes) - Winner: Groover Paris, France See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Europe, here Oceania (3,350 votes) - Winner: Sharepass Melbourne (2,107 votes) - Winner: The Catfisher Project Perth, Australia (220 votes) - Winner: Gemini AI Solutions Auckland, New Zealand, Oceania (213 votes) - Winner: Nexustorage Wellington, New Zealand, Oceania (138 votes) - Winner: Coviu Sydney (124 votes) - Winner: Bopple Brisbane, Australia, Oceania (124 votes) - Winner: Regional CFO New South Wales, Australia, Oceania (106 votes) - Winner: Edit on the Spot Gold Coast, Australia, Oceania (93 votes) - Winner: Knowledge Satnav Canbera, Australia, Oceania , Australia, Oceania (48 votes) - Winner: Peptalk360 North Melbourne, Melbourne See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Oceania, here Asia (16,345 votes) - Winner: Serenity Shield Singapore (13,588 votes) - Winners: QUIXY Telangana, India (10,168 votes) - Winner: HealthySure Mumbai, India (3,865 votes) - Winner: InterviewBuddy Visakhapatnam, India (3,733 votes) - Winner: Omniflo Bengaluru, India (4589 votes) - Winner: MeNow Tel Aviv (3877 votes) - Winner: ForestVPN Dubai (2478 votes) - Winner: TechGraph Powai, Mumbai, India (1004 votes) - Winner: Reelo Ahmedabad, GJ, India (875 votes) - Winner: Debt Hunter Hong Kong, China See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Asia, here Africa (8,179 votes) - Winner: GO PLATFORM Algiers, Algeria (767 votes) - Winner: Tudu Accra, Ghana (415 votes) - Winner: Treford Lagos, Nigeria (265 votes) - Winner: Phalconwise Ogbomosho, Nigeria (157 votes) - Winner: AbuErdan Cairo (151 votes) - Winner: Eazipay Lekki (144 votes) - Winner: KaziConnect Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (101 votes) - Winner: faceATT Gauteng, South Africa (79 votes) - Winner: Dimagi Cape Town (71 votes) - Winner: Sabi Addis Ababa See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Africa, here South America (376 votes ) - Winner: UpGirl Santiago, Chile (217 votes) - Winner: Klever Sao Paulo, Brazil (191 votes) - Winner: Tributo Simple Buenos Aires, Argentina (127 votes) - Winner: Light-it Montevideo, Uruguay (87 votes) -Winner: Thousand Antioquia, Colombia (108 votes) - Winner: GetLavado Lima (101 votes) - Winner: Cogniflow Medellin (73 votes) - Winner: TPAGA Bogota (73 votes) - Winner: Reliv Quito (47 votes) - WInner: Quantex Cordoba See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, South America, here Misc/Remote: Featured Startups (1500 votes) - Winner: CIC Chain Remote, Earth (1193 votes) - Winner: Reship Colony US Misc (146 Votes) - Winner: Partful UK, Misc (116 votes) - Winner: GoMining British Virgin Islands Misc (283 Votes) - Winner: tomorrowSpace Germany Misc (225 votes) - Winner: Dtravel Cayman Islands See the complete announcement for Misc/Remote startups . here Once again, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS and BIG PROPS to all of the top Startups of each region this year! The whole team at HackerNoon would like to thank you for your perseverance in the campaign, and we look forward to seeing you in the next campaign. About HackerNoon’s Startups Of The Year Startups of The Year is HackerNoon’s Flagship community-driven event celebrating startups that survived and thrived in 2023. 30,000 startups across 4200+ cities and six continents participated this year to be crowned the best startup in their city. Visit our page to learn more. 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One thing that API Gateway supports but you can’t do with AppSync out-of-the-box yet is custom domain names. Your shiny new AppSync API is available at , but you really want people to use your own domain instead because is much more memorable and informative. XYZ.appsync-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/graphql dev.example.com/graphql In this post, let’s look at two ways you can do this. I previously wrote about five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway. . Check out the article here 1. CloudFront This is my preferred way. It’s . easy to set up and cheap to run Assuming your AppSync API resource is called (if you use the with the Serverless framework, then this is the logical id it’ll use). This is the CloudFormation resource you need to configure to route traffic to the AppSync API. GraphQlApi serverless-appsync-plugin AppSyncDistribution: Type: AWS::CloudFront::Distribution Properties: DistributionConfig: Origins: - Id: AppSync DomainName: Fn: :Select: - '2' - Fn: :Split: - "/" - Fn: :GetAtt: - GraphQlApi - GraphQLUrl CustomOriginConfig: HTTPPort: 80 HTTPSPort: 443 OriginProtocolPolicy: https-only OriginSSLProtocols: - TLSv1 - TLSv1.1 - TLSv1.2 OriginPath: '' Enabled: true HttpVersion: http2 Comment: CloudFront distribution for the Patient AppSync API Aliases: - <INSERT DOMAIN NAME HERE, e.g. dev.example.com> PriceClass: PriceClass_100 DefaultCacheBehavior: AllowedMethods: - HEAD - OPTIONS - GET - DELETE - POST - PUT - PATCH CachedMethods: - HEAD - OPTIONS - GET ForwardedValues: QueryString: true Headers: - x-api-key - Authorization Cookies: Forward: all MinTTL: 0 DefaultTTL: 0 TargetOriginId: AppSync ViewerProtocolPolicy: redirect-to-https Compress: true CustomErrorResponses: [] ViewerCertificate: AcmCertificateArn: <INSERT ARN HERE> SslSupportMethod: sni-only If you’re using the , then you should also check out the plugin. It can make things a lot easier for you. However, at the time of writing, it makes assumptions about the logical Id of the AppSync API (it expects ) as it’s intended to used alongside the aforementioned . Serverless framework serverless-appsync-cloudfront GraphQlApi serverless-appsync-plugin 2. API Gateway Another way you can do this is through API Gateway. You can set up an HTTP proxy that routes traffic to the AppSync API, and then configure a custom domain name in API Gateway. Compared to using CloudFront, this approach takes more work to set up and incurs higher cost and latency (compared to using CloudFront) because every request has to go through API Gateway. If you’re using the Serverless framework, then another stumbling block is that you can’t declare an API Gateway without any Lambda functions. Luckily, you can work around this by bringing SAM’s macro into the like in . easily AWS::Serverless-2016–10–31 serverless.yml this post This lets you configure API Gateway using SAM’s resource type. AWS::Serverless::Api ApiGateway: Type: AWS::Serverless::Api Properties: Name: AppSyncApiProxy StageName: dev OpenApiVersion: "3.0.1" DefinitionBody: openapi: "3.0.1" paths: /{proxy+}: "x-amazon-apigateway-any-method": consumes: - "application/json" produces: - "application/json" parameters: - name: proxy in: path required: true type: string x-amazon-apigateway-integration: uri: Fn: :Join: - '' - - 'https://' - Fn: :Select: - '2' - Fn: :Split: - "/" - Fn: :GetAtt: - GraphQlApi - GraphQLUrl - '/{proxy}' passthroughBehavior: when_no_match httpMethod: ANY type: http_proxy requestParameters: integration.request.path.proxy : method.request.path.proxy EndpointConfiguration: REGIONAL ApiGatewayDomainName: Type: AWS::ApiGateway::DomainName Properties: DomainName: <INSERT DOMAIN NAME> EndpointConfiguration: Types: - REGIONAL RegionalCertificateArn: <INSERT ARN HERE> ApiGatewayBasePathMapping: Type: AWS::ApiGateway::BasePathMapping DependsOn: - ApiGatewayDomainName Properties: DomainName: <INSERT DOMAIN NAME> RestApiId: !Ref ApiGateway Stage: !Ref ApiGateway.Stage One thing to note here is that, by default, SAM creates an API Gateway stage called . This appears to be a long-standing bug with SAM and the workaround is to set to . Stage OpenApiVersion 3.0.1 Route53 As a final step for both of these approaches, you need to configure a Route53 record for them in your hosted zone. For CloudFront, you need something like this: For API Gateway, you need to capture the for the custom domain (in API Gateway) and configure a Route53 record against it. API Gateway domain name You can also configure these using CloudFormation. Summary With both of these approaches, you can create a custom domain name (such as ) for AppSync. Callers can access your AppSync API via which is much more user-friendly and memorable. dev.example.com dev.example.com/graphql As mentioned above, I prefer the CloudFront approach because it’s easier to configure and has a negligible cost overhead. Previously published at https://theburningmonk.com/2020/09/how-to-set-up-custom-domain-names-for-appsync/

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