9 engineers on Hacker News describe using OpenAI first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Im happily paying $20/mo for OpenAI tools... AI has become a core part of my life/work process.”
endorse · production · SavageBeast · 2024-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use this exact stack at work (OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Deepgram) for some exploratory use cases. The key issue we have now is latency with the LLM.”
regret · production · TuringNYC · 2023-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we went to market with them. And their API has just gotten better and more reliable ever since, and it's cheap.”
endorse · production · phillipcarter · 2023-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Since the release of Fable I've been using Claude and OpenAI to try to tackle these open problems”
neutral · personal · creilly11235 · 2026-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I keep getting notification from my tooling that gemini models are overloaded so we switched you to openai.”
neutral · production · dzhiurgis · 2026-04-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Azure was considered the only “safe” way to use OpenAI APIs in prod”
neutral · production · derwiki · 2026-04-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“content running through OpenAI to summarize blogs, create hooks, and adjust tone”
neutral · production · buzzbyjool · 2025-05-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“over our previous use of Mistral/Claude/OpenAI”
neutral · production · ivorbuk · 2024-09-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have deployed in prod and managed migration to Azure Openai form Openai”
neutral · production · sjnair96 · 2023-11-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?