Cursor and most agents already accept custom keys via OpenRouter natively, so anyone wanting DeepSeek just switches the endpoint legally. Your only differentiator is ToS-violating ban-evasion that breaks on every Anthropic heuristic update and gets your paying customers' production accounts permanently banned, the one risk an agency won't take to save token pennies. You are fighting a constant cat-and-mouse game against billion-dollar AI companies, and the moment they update their heuristics, your users' primary production accounts get permanently banned, causing immediate churn and chargebacks.
Stealth Proxy
PIVOT · 47/100. Real demand, but the shape needs to change.
Cursor and most agents already accept custom keys via OpenRouter natively, so anyone wanting DeepSeek just switches the endpoint legally. Your only differentiator is ToS-violating ban-evasion that breaks on every Anthropic heuristic update and gets your paying customers' production accounts permanently banned, the one risk an agency won't take to save token pennies. You are fighting a constant cat-and-mouse game against billion-dollar AI companies, and the moment they update their heuristics, your users' primary production accounts get permanently banned, causing immediate churn and chargebacks.
Three dev agencies put down a paid pilot deposit knowing the tool masks traffic to evade detection, accepting account-ban risk on their primary Anthropic account in writing. 10 indie developers put down a $50 deposit knowing their Anthropic accounts could be permanently banned for using this proxy.
Developers are desperate to use cheaper alternative models (DeepSeek, Ollama) with proprietary coding agents to cut costs, evidenced by claw-code hitting 179K stars. But platforms are fighting back aggressively—Anthropic explicitly banned OpenClaw on April 4 at 12pm PT (garnering 1099 developer-forum upvotes), leaving developers locked into expensive default models.
PIVOT at 47/100 on Skeptral. The kill-shot: “Cursor and most agents already accept custom keys via OpenRouter natively, so anyone wanting DeepSeek just switches the endpoint legally. Your only…”
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