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Alex's first post about OpenRouter got 6 upvotes and 0 comments on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35481760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3548176

Alex's first post about OpenRouter got 6 upvotes and 0 comments on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35481760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35481760

fragmede 1mo ago
What a good find! Makes me feel better about my projects that get zero traction here.
- nikcub 1mo ago
  getting zero traction here is clearly the path to success :)
nikcub 1mo ago
same with cursor - which was submitted multiple times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423387 are there more examples of this? a bit of an HN anti-portfolio. good reminder to others.
- jasonjayr 1mo ago
  There's the infamous post dismissing DropBox ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 )
  - heaney-555 1mo ago
    This is, somewhat ironically, the most well-known HN comment outside of HN.
    - greenfish6 1mo ago
      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.
      - gpt5 1mo ago
        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.
        rafael-lua 1mo ago
        Thanks for your input, GPT-5.
        titularcomment 1mo ago
        If you think HN is anti-AI, you are in deep. There isn't many places on the internet (sans X/Twit which i don't check) that is as AI-positive as HN. Sure, holdouts remain but the frontpage has a 60% constant vibecoded project submission.
        gpt5 1mo ago
        You are mixing supporting AI (which HN is mostly against, but more supportive than other places), and thinking AI is dumb, which HN has been pretty persistent on for years. I mean - just looked at this downvoted comment essentially saying the same thing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119464. And also the intensity of the replies.
  - ttul 1mo ago
    Poor BrandonM... He has not been invited to cocktail parties at all since then.
  - dandaka 1mo ago
    > It does not seem very "viral" love that Dropbox has became textbook example of viral marketing
apsurd 1mo ago
that subject line is pretty bad though. (i know much of it is a crap shoot and easy to quarterback on Monday morning.)
archon810 1mo ago
What does window.ai have to do with OpenRouter? I don't use either, so your link confuses me.
- ed_mercer 1mo ago
  It's the predecessor. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415092
layer8 1mo ago
That’s the difference between a priori and a posteriori knowledge.
raincole 1mo ago
I kinda expected it's filled with comments telling him how stupid the idea is..

Alex's first post about OpenRouter got 6 upvotes and 0 comments on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35481760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35481760

fragmede 1mo ago

What a good find! Makes me feel better about my projects that get zero traction here.

nikcub 1mo ago
getting zero traction here is clearly the path to success :)

nikcub 1mo ago

same with cursor - which was submitted multiple times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423387 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423387 are there more examples of this? a bit of an HN anti-portfolio. good reminder to others.

jasonjayr 1mo ago
There's the infamous post dismissing DropBox ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 )
- heaney-555 1mo ago
  This is, somewhat ironically, the most well-known HN comment outside of HN.
  - greenfish6 1mo ago
    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.
    - gpt5 1mo ago
      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.
      - rafael-lua 1mo ago
        Thanks for your input, GPT-5.
      - titularcomment 1mo ago
        If you think HN is anti-AI, you are in deep. There isn't many places on the internet (sans X/Twit which i don't check) that is as AI-positive as HN. Sure, holdouts remain but the frontpage has a 60% constant vibecoded project submission.
        gpt5 1mo ago
        You are mixing supporting AI (which HN is mostly against, but more supportive than other places), and thinking AI is dumb, which HN has been pretty persistent on for years. I mean - just looked at this downvoted comment essentially saying the same thing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119464. And also the intensity of the replies.
- ttul 1mo ago
  Poor BrandonM... He has not been invited to cocktail parties at all since then.
- dandaka 1mo ago
  > It does not seem very "viral" love that Dropbox has became textbook example of viral marketing

apsurd 1mo ago

that subject line is pretty bad though. (i know much of it is a crap shoot and easy to quarterback on Monday morning.)

archon810 1mo ago

What does window.ai have to do with OpenRouter? I don't use either, so your link confuses me.

ed_mercer 1mo ago
It's the predecessor. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38415092

layer8 1mo ago

That’s the difference between a priori and a posteriori knowledge.

raincole 1mo ago

I kinda expected it's filled with comments telling him how stupid the idea is..