So what's supposed to make this service better than OpenRouter (https://openrouter.ai), which has an extensive list of available models with transparent pricing for all of them?
Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end
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Re: Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end
#22So, I'll be honest, I don't understand this market. I get that one can be profitable selling shovels during the gold rush, sure. But I have trouble understanding who is knowledgeable/dedicated enough to try to get their AI app going, but would pay to abstract/outsource this part of the chain. (I suppose, relately, I have trouble understanding why anyone would just sort of presume OpenAI would be forever the best back…
Doesn't everyone ask this question about Okta, like what am I doing farming out my user login?
Re: Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end
#23So what's supposed to make this service better than OpenRouter ( https://openrouter.ai ), which has an extensive list of available models with transparent pricing for all of them?
Perhaps:
> You can authenticate users through any identity provider, like Google or Apple, and set per-user request or spending quotas. You can also define an allowlist for endpoints and models. To monetize, you can apply different quotas for various user tiers.
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#24So, I'll be honest, I don't understand this market. I get that one can be profitable selling shovels during the gold rush, sure. But I have trouble understanding who is knowledgeable/dedicated enough to try to get their AI app going, but would pay to abstract/outsource this part of the chain. (I suppose, relately, I have trouble understanding why anyone would just sort of presume OpenAI would be forever the best back…
Lots of company are doing this exact business, they all have insane churn rate.
Biggest use case seems to be for people who want to prototype something quickly, they don’t yet want to bother with managing the infra and don’t mind the extra cost since this will be running at small scale. But if the experiment is successful, then the customer churns as it (most of the time) makes little sense to scale ML on serverless. And if the experiment is not successful, they are obviously also going to churn.
Re: Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
IANAL, but since "Serverless, Inc." chose a generic term for their trademark, usually this means only very specific instances of that mark are enforceable, e.g. "Serverless Framework", "serverless.com" and "Serverless, Inc." But if a company were to say "We make it really easy to use serverless technologies in the cloud!" (note lower case s), that shouldn't be infringing because it's just using serverless as a generi…
Thank you both! In a way this could be a nice problem to have - attracting the attention of BigCo means we are big enough right ;) But yes, we will definitely be prepared for that possibility!
Nice problem to have if you happen to be serverlessai's lawyers, if you happen to be serverlessai's investors, probably not.
Re: Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end
#26Hey, not sure where you're running your backend for this, but this is the perfect use case for my company's product (check out my profile if you're interested). We make a serverless compute platform that doesn't charge for wait time, so it would be signifigantly cheaper than EC2 or AWS Lambda for example.
Re: Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end
#27AI plus serverless…without blockchain??
Re: Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end
#28> Focus on What Matters
I really wish companies and people would stop saying things like this. “Focus on what’s important,” “focus on product,” etc. It’s frankly insulting to the admittedly small percentage of tech who deeply understand and care about the infrastructure that makes all of this magic possible.
If someone isn’t managing servers, your serverless magic will not work. If someone isn’t managing DBs, your product will not work. There is no getting around this problem; at some level, someone has to know how computers actually work, and to defend them against the abuses levied by people who neither know nor care to learn.
Re: Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end
#29> Focus on What Matters I really wish companies and people would stop saying things like this. “Focus on what’s important,” “focus on product,” etc. It’s frankly insulting to the admittedly small percentage of tech who deeply understand and care about the infrastructure that makes all of this magic possible. If someone isn’t managing servers, your serverless magic will not work. If someone isn’t managing DBs, your pr…
I’m binge watching House MD right now, and the number of distinct ways he shits on people for basically saying, “focus on what’s important” is impressive.
The latest one I recall was something like, “we’ll be sure to use the real medicine instead of the placebos.”
Re: Show HN: ServerlessAI – Build, scale, and monetize AI apps without back end
#30Are we seriously calling someone else’s server „serverless“? Serverless would be local compute for me, not calling an API I’m paying someone else for.