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Re: Router by Ramp

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Post by embedding-shape »

reticulates wrote: post #49
sparkling wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Domains investors (or squatters, as one may call them) have been around since the beginning of domains.

I think you mean landlords, not squatters. Squatters are the people who occupy owned property without permission, landlords are the people who hold property, do nothing, and collect profit.

In the context of domains, a domain squatter would be more like someone who holds and keeps a domain without any intention of actually using it or taking it knowing someone else might have use of that exact name, they just want to sell it later for more money. In real-life I agree with your definition though, I guess it not 100% comparable, bad name that got stuck.

Re: Router by Ramp

#52

Post by dgellow »

b1gTekken wrote: post #22
dgellow wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s also so strange how they all play the exact same game. Everybody creates pretty much the same products. Every software company will have a chatbot, an agentic harness, a model router, and whatever will be the next trend. It’s not an ecosystem where we see lots of different ideas with some crazy, some failing, some succeeding, it really feels like it’s a single same bet and all SF companies are sort of acting lik…

Same happened at the start of the cloud era; everyone created a YT competitor, Twitter clones, MySpace clones, a cloud platform to host on (though it was just a wrapper around AWS like wrappers we see around OpenAI [looking at you Heroku]) Big tech emails leaked during a trial over a decade ago; C-level types agreed they need not truly compete and see each other as one big company. Screen based filter bubble living h…

Interesting parallel

Re: Router by Ramp

#53

Post by embedding-shape »

dewey wrote: post #12
embedding-shape wrote: post #5

The fact that they put "every model" repeatedly, then don't actually support even close to "most mainstream models", makes me highly doubtful their service will be more honest and forthcoming once I'm signed up.

I wouldn't read too much into it, that was probably a big rush job once the Stripe / openrouter news broke.

> that was probably a big rush job once the Stripe / openrouter news broke

Yeah, this was my hunch too, which honestly doesn't bode great for the future, but I'm always up to being pleasantly surprised.

Re: Router by Ramp

#54

Post by embedding-shape »

rgbrenner wrote: post #50
zackfield wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

let us know which "mainstream" models you feel like we are missing support for! https://docs.router.com/supported-models

link confirms exactly the complaint of the parent poster

Judging by the responses, I don't think they understood my point at all.

Re: Router by Ramp

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Post by chiefofstuffs »

embedding-shape wrote: post #7
pickledish wrote: post #3

router.com! Cool domain though that must have been expensive :P

> that must have been expensive Indeed, probably not cheap. Ironically, they see themselves as the ones that should help others "stop overpaying for things" and "help companies make better spending decisions": > Wait, Ramp bought router.com? We did. It was either this or spend the next year spelling out a longer URL on podcasts. More importantly, we build tools that help companies make better spending decisions and s…

Money can be exchanged for goods and services. Optimizing your saas/vendor/flights/hotel spend frees up money for domains!

Re: Router by Ramp

#60

Post by hanuffs »

sparkling wrote: post #41
dvaplima wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if more companies use web domains as "investments" aswell

Domains investors (or squatters, as one may call them) have been around since the beginning of domains.

Domain trolls. Similar to patent trolls that buy patents only to resell or license them.
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