Comment by nibab

fabulous work. ive been following you since danswer. you certainly create a lot of value and have been successful in getting the community to cover the long tail of integrations.

its interesting to see how "lock-in" is the main pitch here. all things considered, i don't think "lock-in" is relevant at all unless the activity performed with the tool is highly strategic to the company.

you could argue that some orgs may not want openai/anthropic to have their sensitive data leave the parameter, but im also here to tell you that even the most privacy sensitive companies in the world probably resolve this by having a proxy in between the users and the LLM APIs from the labs.

so where does this leave you ? cost savings from OSS? maybe, but its hard to imagine that we are in the phase of the adoption cycle where companies have become as acutely aware of costs as you think they are.

my 2c - focus on the integrations and see which one gets most traction. that will be your value capture mechanism long-term.