Congrats to the OpenRouter team.
I vividly remember back in 2023/2024, I was sitting on my sofa thinking, "there has to be a market to abstract data access layer, something like Terraform but for LLM provider to avoid vendor lockin". Only if I had access to capital to build something like that at that time, I could have been my try for an AI start up.
Except there are like a dozen Openrouter clones out there with nowhere near the same traction. Not as easy as people believe to build a successful startup. The team probably had the right experience and advantage from building OpenSEA.