I'm writing a web server software that I'm planning to (eventually) open source. One of its goals is to minify the amount of setup required by the programmer to get the server up & running (bare minimum boilerplate), as such, I'm trying to avoid having to issue & utilize API keys wherever possible, …

Yes, you'd need a DNS provider that lets you set NS records, and you'd set it up for the _acme-challenge name to the same hostname as your main web server. But as you're finding, this can get pretty complex and may not be the easy "minify the amount of setup" that you were initially looking for.

Are there any DNS providers that lets you beat the DNS-01 challenge without needing an API key?

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Are there any DNS providers that lets you beat the DNS-01 challenge without needing an API key?

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