I was at stainless since the very beginning, I can tell you it wasn’t the plan

▲ vincnetas 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, but they now have new owner who might be having different plan.

▲ mmcclure 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

The new owner's plan is...to sunset the paid product immediately and give customers access to tooling to be able to continue generating SDKs on their own. From Stainless's post:

    As we focus on Claude Platform capabilities and connecting agents to APIs, we’ll be winding down all hosted Stainless products, including our SDK generator. Starting today, new signups, projects, and SDKs will not be available.

    If you’re a Stainless customer, visit app.stainless.com/transition for help transitioning from Stainless-managed products to other options. As always, you own the SDKs you’ve generated to date, and have full rights to modify and extend them however you wish.

As a customer, all-in-all, we were pretty pleased with the outcome. Stainless was a great partner to us, even in "the end," and I'm really happy for the team.

▲ kuboble 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But I think that doesn't matter.

If you intend to sell it to the highest bidder eventually then what difference does it make what was your plan?

If a business had real values then they would never sell out (see lichess).

▲ cdata 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

With respect, you were manipulated (either by founders or by investors). Startups leverage employees' pro-social leanings to make them feel good about a fundamentally anti-social enterprise.

	▲	solenoid0937 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		HN cracks me up sometimes. Anthropic is anti-social? Stainless devs don't want their pre IPO equity to do well? Okay. I very much doubt you would apply your expectation of altruism to yourself!

▲ rockinghigh 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why wouldn't getting more customers the plan? Anthropic doesn't acquire companies to have a lower market share. There is clearly a consolidation and a rush to get as much of the developer market as possible.

▲ renegade-otter 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The plan can change with the right amount of money. Just ask OpenAI.

▲ throawayonthe 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

the plan isn't really up to the recipient of VC money lol