obsei/obsei

Obsei is a mature project (nearly 2,000 days old) that successfully identified the need for end-to-end AI pipelines before the LLM boom. With ~1,400 stars, it has a solid foundation of users. However, its defensibility is low because it operates as a 'glue' layer in a space that is currently being disrupted by two forces: 1) LLM-native orchestration frameworks like LangChain and Haystack which offer more flexibility, and 2) Frontier lab agents (like OpenAI's GPTs or Google's Vertex AI agents) that can natively perform 'social listening' and API interactions with zero code. The project's velocity of 0.0/hr suggests it has reached a maintenance plateau or is losing momentum to modern alternatives. The technical moat is narrow; the logic of connecting a Scraper to a Sentiment Analyzer to a Slack Webhook is now a standard tutorial pattern rather than a proprietary advantage. Platform risk is high as Zapier, Make.com, and cloud providers are integrating similar AI-driven triggers natively into their high-uptime environments.