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Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public

https://fablepool.com
127•matthewbarras•2h ago

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Eridrus•1h ago
Hell yeah, $516 for a complete AWS replacement, I'm in lol!
____tom____•26m ago
Reminds of the four college kids that were going to clone Facebook. Turns out it's hard than it looks, if you have never tried it.
MeetingsBrowser•25m ago
I wonder how the estimates are being created.

I doubt an LLM would estimate an AWS rewrite to cost $500.

MattyLinky•1h ago
This is such a good idea. Hell yeah
binary0010•1h ago
Lol.
nine_k•1h ago
Hear me out: the same idea, but hire live developers.

(Given the price of tokens, it can even be not entirely a joke.)

sailingparrot•1h ago
Thats called Kickstarter
electronsoup•1h ago
If you put that behind an API, you could sell the service much like the AI providers
satvikpendem•1h ago
And then get sued for fraud and go under, like Builder.ai
fragmede•51m ago
What if, and I know this is utterly batshit insane to suggest, but what if we don't lie about what we're doing?
skeledrew•1h ago
Not affordable, unless the devs are in somewhere like Vietnam. And there's still no way they can build as fast. And still, at that price point, quality would be highly questionable. So yh this doesn't survive beyond the joke stage.
nine_k•53m ago
fuddle•1h ago
I feel like using Fable in the name is a mistake, who knows how long that model will be around.
aaronbrethorst•1h ago
xda-developers.com vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O2_Xda
vlovich123•1h ago
It's how they name classes of models, presumably this implies something about the relative quantization / size of model, not about the specific performance. E.g. Fabel 5 will be better than Opus 5, better than Sonnet 5, etc. The 5 is the version number of the particular iteration / training run at this class of model.
pseudocoup•41m ago
I think they mean: I feel like using [Sonnet/Opus/Fable] in the name [URL] is a mistake, who knows how long that model will be around
an0malous•41m ago
You could call it aiproductsexchange.com
andrewstuart2•37m ago
Bold move leaving out the dash between words a la experts-exchange lol.
TrueGeek•1h ago
So the completed sample was estimated at $0.35, actually cost $0.52, but spend $0.55

This bot is almost as bad as I am at estimating projects.

MeetingsBrowser•28m ago
> Build a completely greenroom, open source AWS

> est. total target $516.00

Lol

pitched•22m ago
A lot of AWS is built on open-source. This is obviously ignoring hardware costs. I don’t know if it is all that ridiculous anymore. These models are very good at wiring together open-source systems. The world is crazy right now…
pitched•27m ago
Did it not charge anything for the estimation itself? I wonder what model they’re using for that
keyle•1h ago
This is literally an idea by the primegean on his YouTube under predictions. Self prophecy really with his reach but credit where it's due?
satvikpendem•1h ago
He's been right about other things before, such as this: https://youtu.be/m-bT5v5Tm7w
xpct•1h ago
Before putting in money to this small anonymous website, I'd love to hear about the people behind the project. There's a single mention of 'Barras Industries', but not much mention about them online, or what else they've worked on.
colesantiago•1h ago
This is a fantastic idea.

There are lots of projects, software that shouldn't be SaaS subscriptions that Fable can build in public that can be free for everyone and also OSS.

skeledrew•1h ago
Is this the new open source?
xyzsparetimexyz•1h ago
Fantastic idea for a rug pull
bensyverson•1h ago
This idea reads like a joke, but there's something to it.

One feature request: In addition to high-level milestones, it would be cool if a partially-funded project would generate a public, highly detailed implementation plan.

Also, IANAL but MIT is still a license with a copyright holder. I don't think saying "it's MIT, we all own it" is defensible. The courts might view all this code as public domain.

johnwheeler•1h ago
This is a good idea and for features and modifications you can make it so whoever chips in the most money gets more votes.

This is one of those ideas that sounds bad on paper (Like people renting out their houses. But if implemented correctly could get some traction.

evanwolf•59m ago
Kinda fun but the approach today is strictly oneshot. Waiting for agentswithwallets to post.
suddenlybananas•58m ago
https://fablepool.com/projects/7 It didn't even put a picture in!
parliament32•40m ago
I love how even the "demo build" doesn't work. https://fablepool.com/projects/7

Rather, it did work at milestone 14, but then regressed at milestone 15, where it changed the link from a wikimedia image to a nonexistent file in /assets (despite still having the "Photo via Wikimedia Commons" caption).

3adk1a•40m ago
Everything turns into a computer game and entertainment.

Maybe add a "Build a worm that shuts down all Anthropic data centers."

pitched•21m ago
This, unfortunately, gets flagged for cyber and you would need to be on the unlocked Mythos.
stonesy88•38m ago
Brilliant idea! We need consensus protocols for voting on phases. Similar to the "twitch" plays Pokemon phenomenom.
orliesaurus•26m ago
Ok who wants to pool up to build GTA 7? /s
brikym•26m ago
I think the bottleneck is testing. I want to build a replacement for Zwift, a virtual gym game for bike trainers and treadmills, but testing it could be difficult without a real person on real hardware. How does the LLM know about the hardware protocols and stuff like that.
robbs•12m ago
Same way you’d do it without AI. Record sample data, test against that, generate more data, test IRL, record more data, loop until it’s good enough.
fragmede•8m ago
I don't have one. how through is this blog post reverse engineering it? https://www.makinolo.com/blog/2024/07/26/zwift-ride-protocol... ?
0xferruccio•26m ago
This is a genius idea, I love it!!
JohnMakin•18m ago
"I want an open source AWS" with $500 budget made me guffaw
squidsoup•5m ago
OpenStack already exists
LearnYouALisp•4m ago
"I have a turbofan model, pls build an Airbus" sounds about right
raincole•13m ago
Man, I really hope this kind of effort could be put into auditing the security situation of open source projects (via Mythos or not.)
The mention of quality puts it firmly into the joke territory, indeed.
a1o•31m ago
It can work for students as a grant
tptacek•30m ago
I don't understand how that would not be a complete joke even if tokens were 2 orders of magnitude more expensive than they are.
bcjordan•20m ago
This was a pre-LLM YC startup AssemblyMade which was basically this
cortesoft•18m ago
how expensive do you think tokens are, and/or how cheap do you think a developer is?

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