To improve the aesthetic and usability of API keys, a startup created 'uuidkey', a package that encodes UUIDs into a readable format using Crockford Base32. This solution aims to provide secure, globally unique, sortable, and human-friendly API keys by leveraging the benefits of UUIDv7 and adding options such as removing dashes
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