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Re: Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model

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Post by rdslw »

forgetme2020 wrote: post #23

what's the business model here. How does experiential labs make money

the business model, I suspect, is classic rug-pull in some time after building user base.

proof: boldly claiming being open source in literally first sentence, while cowardly hiding on-by-default telemetry (WTF??) in truly last paragraph of readme.

sorry to sound harsh, but this is typical old era playbook here.

in the era of AI, fortunately, such products has much lower value. people and VCs didn’t yet tune to it.

Re: Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model

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Post by SilenN »

rdslw wrote: post #31
forgetme2020 wrote: post #23

what's the business model here. How does experiential labs make money

the business model, I suspect, is classic rug-pull in some time after building user base. proof: boldly claiming being open source in literally first sentence, while cowardly hiding on-by-default telemetry (WTF??) in truly last paragraph of readme. sorry to sound harsh, but this is typical old era playbook here. in the era of AI, fortunately, such products has much lower value. people and VCs didn’t yet tune to it.

Telemetry is off by default. PostHog is for usage analytics on the open source repo. Audit it if you're skeptical.

We make money off enterprise licenses and hosting models.

I have strong reason to suspect you either can't read or are a bad actor.

Re: Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model

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Post by SilenN »

tyre wrote: post #28
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #18

You started it a week ago? I look forward to checking back in 3 weeks when you've exited for $1B

Looks like first PR is June 24th: https://github.com/experientiallabs/experiential/pull/1 So, two months. Still impressive!

Thanks for the positivity tyre! If you look at our git history, we pivoted and only started building the gateway recently. Before that we were building research infrastructure that now powers the intelligence features we provide.

Re: Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model

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Post by nejch »

A part of me wishes the open source community would focus making research and industry-backed initiatives like the vLLM Semantic Router rock solid. Then I'd spend less time every month checking if this or that new model router has differentiating over vllm-sr :)

At least for open source inference, it seems like there's healthy competition centered around vllm/sglang, but 2026 seems to be for model routers what 2025 was for agent harnesses.

Re: Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model

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Post by aerzen »

SilenN wrote: post #11
cameronh90 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But then it's better to just not have a gateway switch models at all. Just have the harness able to choose which model its sub-agents use, then tell it how to split up tasks and which models to use when doing so.

That is another way to do. Or we can automatically figure out which models the subagents should be using for you. And update them as new models come out and the work your subagents do changes. More than one way to skin a cat.

This does make sense. I generally only switch between models in pi when creating a new session. And it is apparent from the promt if this just a "how to see open ports on linux" or "make a concrete plan for feature X"
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