> 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.
Extremely relevant:
Ramp Router: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987253
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just spend $1B reimplementing it?
(Of course that is absurd, $10M would be plenty)
The value is in the existing customers, isn't it? Not so much the product.
https://taikhooms.substack.com/p/why-openrouter-can-be-the-n...
> 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.
You jest but this is basically exactly what happened in crypto.
Interesting. I guess it fits since Openrouter's main value is in consolidating payment to all these different model providers
Do they have to
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.. :<
Please, no.