You are losing hours and dollars to slow API calls and expensive defaults
The single provider model is a trap.
Build a router. Assert absolute command over your requests.
Direct your own reality.
@shensi@merge_api#mergegateway
Introducing Merge Gateway - Build Your Own Router.
You're three sprints into your coding assistant.
You pick the most hyped model, integrate, test, deploy.
A month later, a new model drops.
Now you re-test, re-integrate, re-deploy.
Your product didn't change, but the benchmark did.
That's how most AI teams operate.
Chasing a "best" defined by people who've never seen their product.
There is no best model.
There's only the right one for your product, users, and use-cases.
Build Your Own Router runs on your definition of good.
Pick your benchmarks, weigh them, add your own evals.
@merge_api routes every request to your winner.
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ICO CLOSED.
We did not reach the 300K target.
Lowering the threshold would not have made sense. We need that level of funding to execute properly, hit our milestones, and build Eden the way it deserves to be built. Anything less would mean cutting corners, and that is not who we are.
This one hurts.
Not because of the number. But because we know what Eden is capable of.
To everyone who participated in the raise: thank you. Truly.
To the 450 players who stepped into Eden and played an average of 3h 13m: you proved something important. You did not log in for five minutes out of curiosity. You stayed. You cared. You felt the tension, the grind, the “one more run.”
We saw it in real time. The adrenaline. The competitiveness. The addiction loop working exactly as designed.
The game works.
Right now the market is in peak fear. Capital is risk-off everywhere. Gaming is not particularly bullish. That is reality. We cannot fight macro. We can only show up and build. And we did. We invested years of our lives, a lot of personal capital, and everything we had in us.
So what happens now?
Eden goes into hibernation until we secure alternative funding. That may take months. It may take longer. We do not know yet.
But this is not goodbye.
Eden is our baby. You do not abandon something you poured your heart into. You do not forget 36 hours of seeing your community fully immersed in something you created from nothing.
We proved the concept.
We proved the gameloop.
We proved retention.
The only barrier left is funding.
We are proud. We are grateful. And yes, we are emotional about this one.
When the gates open again, it will be because we found a way.
And we will.