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Raycast on BYOK Concerns
thomaspaulmann, on reddit.com:
Here’s where we messed up the communication: Some of you expected BYOK to connect directly to providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) without going through our servers. We built it differently and should have been upfront about that from day one instead of letting people figure it out later.
I missed this middle layer detail, but it doesn’t concern me much. It makes sense that’s the easiest way to integrate across devices and with Raycast functionality.
As I mentioned before, my concern is mostly related of why BYOK is free:
One debate we had was whether BYOK should be free or part of our paid Pro subscription. We decided to make it free to lower the barrier of adoption for some of our most powerful features. Our Pro subscription offers a clear upgrade path for people who want to share their AI content across devices, and our Advanced AI add-on is a great deal for people who want access to all the best LLMs.
Works for me, still hope there’s more to come to justify why Pro upgrade makes sense.