[splwjs]

idk man i bet you five bucks and a handshake it's just going to play out like the existing startup grift.

There's an established player with institutional protections, then a scrappy upstart takes a bunch of VC money, converts it into runway, gives away the product for free, gradually replaces and becomes the standard, then puts out an s-1 document saying "we don't make money and we never have, want to invest?" and then they start to enjoy all the institutional protections. Or they don't. Either way you pay yourself handsomely from the runway money so who cares.

The upstart gets indexed and has an API, the established player doesn't.

The upstart is more easily found and modular but the institutional player can refuse to be indexed to own their data and they can block their API to prevent ai slop from getting in and dominating their content.