fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy // CTO @useorb (hiring!). powering billing for @vercel, @glean, @fal, and a ton more. cs/philosophy @caltech.
The last two years have been quite the ride, and today’s a big day for us at team Orb! We’re building the revenue infrastructure that your team really doesn’t want to build.
This is fascinating— poe lets you build server bots that query other models— like Claude Instant or GPT 3.5— *for free*.
Making new bots easy comes with an important realization: it’s not just devex— it’s also cloud economics.
Introducing the Poe API v2! This uniquely lets any bot on Poe query any other bot for free and use the output as input. Developers do not have to pay for this; instead the queries are covered under the *user's* normal message allocation on Poe.
🧵let's talk a bit about @stripe's usage based billing product from Sessions.
A first thread on gaps in their new reporting usage features, and highlight why @useOrb is a *different* product from the ground up (and why companies choose to work with us!) 👇🏽
at @useorb, we ❤️ @duckdb for use cases like debugging on s3. we're excited to do more with it in production powered by teams like @motherduck and @RillData
Read about our use case, and what's next at
Last night, I hosted an engineering leaders dinner for @useorb, with representation from some of the fastest growing cloud infra & AI companies.
🧵5️⃣takeaways below 👇🏽
Powering billing for the fastest growing companies out there @useOrb is serious business, but we can look good while we're at it 🫡.
Check out our new look 👇🏽