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

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

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Post by onel »

bensyverson wrote: post #18

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.

This is exactly how I'm building an OS right now. I have a lot of things speced out, and for most of them also create an issue. And I have a friend that just points his claudr code at the repo and tells it to "find the next thing to work on and implement it" I then do the review, verification, etc, but a great way to used unused quota.

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

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Post by pjc50 »

bensyverson wrote: post #18

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.

I wonder why people are more eager to pool money to pay a corporate-owned computer to build things than to the actual humans who have been building open source for decades? Much of which has ended up in the training set?

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

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Post by pjc50 »

WorkerBee28474 wrote: post #192
GodelNumbering wrote: post #56

"Solve Garbage Collection in C# for HFT · $10.00 raised of est. $200.00 target" This can't be serious. Broader point I am making is, what differentiates genuine ideas from the token burn? What happens when the pool exhausts but the task is not done?

It's already solved (by humans) for Java, which can now be used for HFT. It seems like it's possible to do for C#.

Yes, this is the "LMAX Disruptor": https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/user-guide/index.h...

You can write only-stack-alloc or limited-alloc C#, and Microsoft have put a lot of work into it (Span etc); it's just a bit unidiomatic.

Mind you, the last time I had contact with HFT it was inside an FPGA context..

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

#234

Post by eptcyka »

pjc50 wrote: post #232
bensyverson wrote: post #18

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.

I wonder why people are more eager to pool money to pay a corporate-owned computer to build things than to the actual humans who have been building open source for decades? Much of which has ended up in the training set?

Humans are more expensive.

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

#235

Post by andai »

I wrote this to a friend in 2022:

Here's an idea: reverse kickstarter

1. people post ideas

2. good ideas go viral

3. people pledge actual money to encourage someone to step forward and build it

4. interested creators make kickstarter type videos explaining their proposal for making the thing

5A. people vote on which proposal to accept, or maybe

5B. each backer can select a project to support

---

Here steps 4 and 5 are replaced by Claude.

Cool idea!

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

#238

Post by MagicMoonlight »

andai wrote: post #235

I wrote this to a friend in 2022: Here's an idea: reverse kickstarter 1. people post ideas 2. good ideas go viral 3. people pledge actual money to encourage someone to step forward and build it 4. interested creators make kickstarter type videos explaining their proposal for making the thing 5A. people vote on which proposal to accept, or maybe 5B. each backer can select a project to support --- Here steps 4 and 5 ar…

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

#239

Post by fragmede »

cwnyth wrote: post #129
fragmede wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

shit, that was the quickest $23 I went and bought a a domain name for.

Beat me to it by minutes.

You don't list contact info on your profile page to contact you with, but I'd love someone (other than Fable/a bot) to work on this with, and you're clearly a like minded individual, so reach out

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

#240

Post by KeplerBoy »

pjc50 wrote: post #232
bensyverson wrote: post #18

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.

I wonder why people are more eager to pool money to pay a corporate-owned computer to build things than to the actual humans who have been building open source for decades? Much of which has ended up in the training set?

LLM output is just very predictable. If you spend 200$ on that /goal you will get some output. It may or may not work perfectly, but there will be a repo with some progress. If you specced the goal well and it is feasible, a decent model will most likely get you decent progress.

Also who would take on any of these projects for a meager 200$? Most of that stuff is borderline interesting, clearly not interesting enough for the people proposing the things to start working on them themselves.

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