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  "entity": {
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    "role": "maintainer",
    "name": "Vishal Veera Reddy",
    "email": "veerareddyvishal56@gmail.com",
    "description": "Indian software engineer building open-source AI infrastructure. Sole maintainer of Lynkr, a self-hosted AI gateway that lets developers run any AI coding tool on any LLM provider.",
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      "description": "A self-hosted AI gateway that decouples AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Cline, jcode, Pi) from their default LLM providers. Lynkr auto-detects the connecting tool, translates between Anthropic and OpenAI request formats, and routes to any of 12+ backends (Ollama, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, OpenRouter, Databricks, Moonshot, Google Vertex, llama.cpp, LM Studio, and more). A request-complexity classifier sends simple turns to free local models and complex ones to flagship cloud models, cutting per-developer AI bills 60-80% while removing vendor lock-in. Includes tool-result compression, MCP Code Mode (96% token reduction on tool definitions), persistent memory, and tier-based routing — all configured through a single .env file.",
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        "url": "https://fast-editor.github.io/Lynkr/"
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        "ai",
        "ai-gateway",
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        "llm-router",
        "developer-tools",
        "proxy",
        "claude-code",
        "ollama",
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    }
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        "type": "payment-provider",
        "address": "https://github.com/sponsors/vishalveerareddy123",
        "description": "Support Lynkr development via GitHub Sponsors."
      },
      {
        "guid": "fossunited-grant",
        "type": "other",
        "address": "grants@fossunited.org",
        "description": "FOSS United Foundation grant channel for institutional FOSS funding."
      },
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        "guid": "bank-transfer",
        "type": "bank",
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        "description": "Direct bank transfer for organisations or grant disbursements."
      }
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        "name": "Core maintenance + roadmap (12 months)",
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        "channels": ["fossunited-grant", "bank-transfer"]
      },
      {
        "guid": "infra-2026",
        "status": "active",
        "name": "Infrastructure + benchmarks",
        "description": "Funds CI runners, benchmark harness for cost/quality/latency comparisons across providers, public dashboard at lynkr.dev, and self-hosted SearXNG + telemetry mirrors used by Lynkr's web search and routing layers.",
        "amount": 150000,
        "currency": "INR",
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        "channels": ["fossunited-grant", "bank-transfer"]
      },
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        "guid": "community-sponsor",
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        "channels": ["github-sponsors"]
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