If someone from Stripe / OpenRouter is listening, please let me provide Open Router OAuth to my users and let me take a cut of their usage. Apple takes 30, I would take whatever the users are willing to pay. 5 to 15 is reasonable.
I amend my prior comments (with actually being able to amend them) to Apple sucks as much as the rest of the rent seekers, and in reference to Aeolun's comment, it doubly sucks that enough people choose to lick it up that the rent seekers don't feel ashamed of their rent seekery, but in fact profit handsomely from it, thus encouraging others to follow suit.
It feels ridiculous that you can't buy directly from the software publisher - like the old internet when they were called programs. I feel I may be on the end of pointing and laughing at the old man, but the situation now is literally a gatekeeping middle-man that gets a 30% cut. WTF? Nice work if you can get it.
Makes me feel like a rube (in a significant majority, mind) for the few games I've bought off Steam. Eesh, even GOG is 30%. Epic's seems reasonable at 12% and only after the first million in revenue per year.
Software publishers need a 'donate' button on their websites where erstwhile pirates can cough launder cough their procurements.
What value are you providing that you'd take some further cut? You could take the money from the user via stripe and then pay your own openrouter bill instead.
It's more user and developer friendly when you tell your user:
- you don't have to create new account just log in to your openrouter account
- bring your own key
- you don't have to pay any subscription. we charge small markup fee (e.g. 5-10%) over your usage inside our app.
"I am not touching your data, you are using OpenRouter and whatever provider, I am getting a small cut from your usage."
Not sure why this does not exist yet.