I didn’t start Ethyx with a product thesis. I started it to learn.

The first idea was deliberately narrow: a thin proxy in front of backend LLMs so my side projects could share one API interface regardless of whether the model was OpenAI, Anthropic, or xAI. Adapters, a model catalog, streaming …

First-party AI apps are ecosystems. Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini—each one owns your history, your habits, and often treats your prompts as training fuel. Switching means relearning the product. Your threads don’t move. Your muscle memory doesn’t either.

I’ve been building Ethyx to …

I did it, I finally resigned. I’m done with Disney. And to be honest, it feels great. Which is such an odd thing for me to be saying considering I’m an neurodivergent individual that has special interests in both technology and theme parks. And it’s true, on paper, this was my …