HingAPI/Documentation

Documentation

Everything you need to go from zero to a live backend: create a project, design your data, and call your API. No code required on the backend side.

Overview

How HingAPI works

You build a backend in the dashboard, and we turn it into a live REST API. There are just three ideas to know:

Project

One backend. It has a URL, tables, settings and its own API key. You can have as many as you want.

Table

Where your data lives, like a spreadsheet with typed columns. Each table becomes a REST endpoint automatically.

API key

Your project's password. Send it in the x-api-key header with every request so only your apps can access your data.

Getting started

Create your first project

Five small steps. Click through them to see exactly what each one looks like. Most people finish in under two minutes.

Step 1 of 5

Create your account

Sign up with your email. It's free and no credit card is needed. This account is where all of your backends will live.

Using it

Use your API

Every table supports the five classic operations. This playground builds real, copy-paste-ready requests for your project.

Type your real project slug and table name. Every example below updates as you type, so you can copy and run them as-is.

POST/api/v1/my-store/products
Request: Create a row
curl -X POST "https://hingapi.vercel.app/api/v1/my-store/products" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "name": "Wireless Mouse", "price": 29.99 }'
Response: 201 Created
{
  "data": {
  "id": "row_8f2ke1",
  "name": "Wireless Mouse",
  "price": 29.99,
  "createdAt": "2026-07-10T12:00:00Z"
}
}
Replace YOUR_API_KEY with the key from your project's API keys section, and ROW_ID with the id of a row (you get it back when you create or list rows).

Going further

Beyond the basics

Once storing and reading data works, your project can do a lot more. Expand each topic to see how.

Turn on auth in your project's Auth section and your API gets ready-made endpoints for registering and logging in the people who use your app, with sessions and login lockouts handled for you.

Auth endpoints
POST https://hingapi.vercel.app/api/v1/my-store/auth/register
POST https://hingapi.vercel.app/api/v1/my-store/auth/login
GET  https://hingapi.vercel.app/api/v1/my-store/auth/me
POST https://hingapi.vercel.app/api/v1/my-store/auth/logout

Users can sign in with email, phone, or username. You choose in the Auth settings.

Answers

Frequently asked questions

Short answers to the things people ask most.

Yes. Creating an account and building projects is free while you build, and no credit card is required.

Ready to try it yourself?

Create a project and you'll have a live API key in under a minute.