diff --git a/pages/api/_middleware.ts b/pages/api/_middleware.ts
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index 35529757ba..0000000000
--- a/pages/api/_middleware.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from "next/server";
-
-// Not much useful yet as prisma.client can't be used in the middlewares (client is not available)
-// For now we just throw early if no apiKey is passed,
-// but we could also check if the apiKey is valid if we had prisma here.
-
-export default async function requireApiKeyAsQueryParams({ nextUrl }: NextRequest) {
-  const response = NextResponse.next();
-  const apiKey = nextUrl.searchParams.get("apiKey");
-
-  if (apiKey) return response;
-  // if no apiKey is passed, we throw early a 401 unauthorized asking for a valid apiKey
-  else
-    new NextResponse(
-      JSON.stringify({
-        message:
-          "You need to pass an apiKey as query param: https://api.cal.com/resource?apiKey=<your-api-key>",
-      }),
-      { status: 401, statusText: "Unauthorized" }
-    );
-}
diff --git a/pages/api/index.ts b/pages/api/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..17d29ee64b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pages/api/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import type { NextApiRequest, NextApiResponse } from "next";
+
+export default async function CalcomApi(req: NextApiRequest, res: NextApiResponse) {
+  res.status(201).json({ message: "Welcome to Cal.com API - docs are at https://docs.cal.com/api" });
+}