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).
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.
What percentage of the potential market does openrouter have? Like even if they have 100% of today’s customers, they probably have like 3% of 5-years-from-now’s
customers.
> 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.
Ramp Router: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987253
(Of course that is absurd, $10M would be plenty)
How many people even use more than one search engine?
A “search engine router” wouldn’t be very successful…
If AI tokens become unlimited like cell phone minutes, why bother routing?
Clearly what we need is a Router Router, to avoid router lock-in.
Well, at least I know AI didn't write it