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- Please, no.by fractorial
- God, no, I hate how stripe went from a wonder child in 2014 with its propaganda spiel about “we pay all employees 70k/year” to what it is now, PayPal of the 2010s.by rootsudo
- Smart move, I imagine OpenRouter’s business model is very appealing to Stripe.by jnyst1985
- Interesting. I guess it fits since Openrouter's main value is in consolidating payment to all these different model providersby subarctic
- Do they have to
- Damn, any alternatives?by truthbe
- Does it mean openrouter can't sustain on its own? If so, bad news, new owner 'd surely want it to be profitable, so expect price hike.. :<by zb3
- Do sustainable tech startups actually exist?by BobbyTables2
- by Taikhoom2010
- > It aggregate’s practially ever Large Language Model, then bundles access and takes a flat fee.
Well, at least I know AI didn't write it
by walthamstow - > it has clear platform dynamics. It is an aggregator of AI models, and once enterprises use it, that creates switching costs since all your AI expense is in one place: logs, budgets, etc, so switching would be painful and generally not make a lot of sense.
Clearly what we need is a Router Router, to avoid router lock-in.
by evenhash - Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just spend $1B reimplementing it?
(Of course that is absurd, $10M would be plenty)
by BobbyTables2 - quick you are a saas company pulling 3b cash annually how do you deploy itby dnnehgf
- The value is in the existing customers, isn't it? Not so much the product.by sds357
- Extremely relevant:
Ramp Router: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987253
by chromatin - Maybe there were more than 1 bidder for OpenRouter… Regardless, a business like OpenRouter may be best in the form of a complement product of something else (like payment processing).by claw-el