Alex Atallah

Alex Atallah

CEO & co-founder of OpenRouter, previously CTO & co-founder of OpenSea. Alum: Stanford, YC, HF0, Palantir.

Projects

  • OpenRouter: the first and largest router for LLMs. LLM Leaderboard.
  • OpenSea: the first & largest NFT marketplace.
  • Window AI: a browser extension that connects LLMs to the web. Github.
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Other startups and projects
  • Wificoin: a hackathon project for wifi sharing, which led to OpenSea eventually. Github. (Note: the domain has changed owners so I’m no longer linking it.)
  • hostess.fm (→ Beatport): live-streaming platform.
  • Zugata (→ CultureAmp): peer feedback app.
  • Redbase: a simple, fast, type-safe database on top of Redis.
  • Saurus: realtime entity recognition, hackathon project.
  • Whatsgoodly: anonymous social polling app, once used to predict the millennial vote.
  • Apollo: natural language analysis for financial data.
  • Palantir: natural language search, ontology manager, cyber data explorer, search backend.

2024

🧪
Software engineers will become scientists
August 7, 2024

2023

📢
Pubsub as a product principle
January 20, 2023

2022

👑
On NFT royalties
November 6, 2022
💡
New beginnings
July 1, 2022
🌐
NFTs will outnumber websites
March 9, 2022
⛴️
OpenSea Ventures
February 11, 2022
🛡️
Announcing the NFT Security Group
January 17, 2022

2021

👈
Looking back at 2021
December 31, 2021
🚢
OpenSea Series B: our story so far
July 20, 2021

2017

📶
Wificoin - earn crypto by sharing your WiFi
October 16, 2017
📊
Introducing the Trump Tracker
February 14, 2017

Very Old Stuff

🔌
Pulling the Plug on a FinTech Startup
November 4, 2014
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Why you should get into hardware
October 30, 2014
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Hackathon project: Saurus, an automatic thesaurus
July 30, 2014
☄️
Optimizing a TypeScript compiler for Meteor
June 2, 2014
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Notify: an automatic personal assistant
April 13, 2014
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Campaign Trail: virtually manage political campaigns
January 20, 2012
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Dormlink: a social network for dorms
March 26, 2011
🌎
Visualizing U.S. trade with developing countries
January 7, 2011

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