soapbucket/sbproxy

sbproxy enters an extremely crowded market of AI gateways and proxies. With 0 stars and a 3-day history, it currently lacks any market validation or community traction. Its core value proposition—unifying multiple LLM providers—is already dominated by mature, high-velocity projects like LiteLLM (which has tens of thousands of stars and deep integration with the Python ecosystem), Portkey, and OneAPI. The 'single-binary' approach is a common pattern in the Go ecosystem but does not constitute a moat against competitors who offer Docker images and managed services. Frontier labs and cloud providers (AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI) are also moving into the aggregation space, making this a high-risk area for small independent projects. Without a unique architectural innovation (like novel caching, local-first privacy, or specific enterprise security features), it is likely to remain a personal utility rather than a defensible infrastructure component. The platform domination risk is high because cloud providers are incentivized to provide their own 'single API' to keep users within their cloud compute environments.