[tom1337]

Is the Open in OpenRouter the same as in Open AI? I couldn’t find any repository or hosted code. Thought it'd be a open source, self hostable tool with a cloud offering but seems its just the latter?

[alecco]

I assumed they were open source but now that I checked they are not, they say "Open" because they route to third-party open models. Yikes. Another VC crap layer?

[omneity]

The Open in OpenRouter is the same as in OpenSea, as it's the same founder. Make of that what you will.

[dnnddidiej]

I make of it they are good at riding hype cycles

[bijowo1676]

tbh anyone can rig up something like openrouter in a few nights with claude code.

its just a proxy

[kvirani]

Today your statement is a little too ambitious but I agree with the overall point that the inherent effort based moat in SaaS is mostly gone and now it is really about personalizing your own.

The most common counter-argument that I've seen here is " Yes, but no organization wants to manage all of their different operational tools. They would rather just outsource that responsibility to third-party entities".

I'm not sure I fully agree with that counter. Because agents can be viewed as third party entities in some sense. If not today then maybe soon.

[staticshock]

An agent you can sue would count as a legitimate third party entity. Suing today's agents won't get you very far.

[m1keil]

Open as in single API layer which allows you to swap the model under it.