Show HN: RNet – AI token service provider
TL;DR
A developer has presented RNet on Hacker News, a platform for AI credits that work across apps. The trigger was an everyday annoyance: credits in an agentic IDE could not be used for a Hostinger deployment agent, even though both subscriptions were active. With RNet, users buy credits once and spend them across different AI products, while developers register their product and route model calls through a shared gateway. The author notes it sounds like OpenRouter but says the two solve different problems.
Nauti's Take
The upside is real: scattered credit pools across AI tools waste money for small teams, and one shared balance makes budgeting far easier. The risk sits in the extra gateway layer between you and the model providers, which adds latency, another outage surface and one more party that sees your prompts.
Anyone piloting this should check the supported-app list first and ask what happens to leftover credit if the company folds.
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