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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

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same with cursor - which was submitted multiple times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423387

are there more examples of this? a bit of an HN anti-portfolio. good reminder to others.

There's the infamous post dismissing DropBox ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 )

This is, somewhat ironically, the most well-known HN comment outside of HN.

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.

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.

Thanks for your input, GPT-5.

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.

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. And also the intensity of the replies.

Poor BrandonM... He has not been invited to cocktail parties at all since then.

> It does not seem very "viral"

love that Dropbox has became textbook example of viral marketing

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

getting zero traction here is clearly the path to success :)

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

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

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

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

that subject line is pretty bad though.

(i know much of it is a crap shoot and easy to quarterback on Monday morning.)

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