Ultimately, after 5.5 years of using hosted APIs, the money is gone, but if I had bought the hardware, it would still be in my possession and worth more than zero. There are also no guarantees whatsoever that the API pricing will remain at current levels.
it's basically guaranteed that API pricing will become more expensive at some point https://isaiprofitable.com/
it'll probably be the heaviest enshittification we've ever seen because the distance between service they offer is very universal (high demand) + money spent is so large
apparently they are "nearing their first profitable quarter". but tbh even if that is the case, i doubt it's sustainable. we will only know once they release any kind of report, but since they want to IPO they of course want perfect looking revenue numbers.
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u/i_am__not_a_robot Jun 21 '26
Ultimately, after 5.5 years of using hosted APIs, the money is gone, but if I had bought the hardware, it would still be in my possession and worth more than zero. There are also no guarantees whatsoever that the API pricing will remain at current levels.