Alex's first post about OpenRouter got 6 upvotes and 0 comments on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35481760
I kinda expected it's filled with comments telling him how stupid the idea is..
OpenRouter is joining Stripe
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#342With this I am looking to moving my operations to Eurorouter. I am so done with these people (stripe)
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#343Happy for the OpenRouter team. Been using the platform since early stages and the ability to run any AI model with the same api key and same request has been great to experiment with new models and being able to switch models in prod with minimal effort. They also support fallback by default so you don’t have to write wrappers and logic to choose models, it just works with their SDk using config.
The open router team was good people with a good product. Hopefully they can move on with their lives
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#344I am glad it’s so easy to code. All these tools keep getting bought, cursor then this, and I have been able to build my own replacements.
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#346Congratulations to the open router team. Also: Praying for stripes imminent demise.
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#347Probably a mixed bag at OpenRouter today. Some employees probably just became very wealthy. Others will see what it's like being owned by a different company with different goals. Layoffs tend to accompany most acquisitions within 6-12 months these days. A $7B price tag probably comes with some hefty expectations.
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#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also very representative of the HN comment section vibes overall. But such is normal with normies providing startup critiques, if you just look at every announcement and say "this will fail", you'd be right 99% of the time.
I mean, the AI skepticism is still so prevalent today in HN, despite it solving decades old math problems, hacking into companies, making software engineer no longer code, etc. (all this just in the last year). So nothing really has changed in this community's vibes.
Thanks for your input, GPT-5.
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#349Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I need to say that corporate consolidation is never good for consumers. Truer words, never spoken. I'm not sure how exactly this will screw me over -but I do know that it will.
Then switch. The good news is its’s fairly easy.
Great advice, until all of the alternatives are driven from the market ala youtube, ala' ebay, etc etc
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#350Probably a mixed bag at OpenRouter today. Some employees probably just became very wealthy. Others will see what it's like being owned by a different company with different goals. Layoffs tend to accompany most acquisitions within 6-12 months these days. A $7B price tag probably comes with some hefty expectations.
I think OpenRouter has a pretty lean staff