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OpenRouter

Product Pretty sure · quietly profitable
https://openrouter.ai

API aggregator that solved the actual problem of model fragmentation before anyone realized it was a problem. Boring infrastructure that works.

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OpenRouter isn't doing research or shipping novel algorithms—it's a reverse proxy for LLM APIs with unified auth, fallback routing, and pricing aggregation. The 'science' floor: you need infrastructure competence to route millions of requests reliably. The 'slop' floor: marketing is minimal, no fake demos, the tagline 'unified interface for LLMs' is literally what it does. The 'signal': developers actually use this instead of managing 15 API keys and balancing costs manually. Not sexy, not ve...

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