Petabyte
Petabyte is a compute marketplace that lets people rent affordable GPU power or earn money by renting out their idle GPUs for AI, rendering, and other compute workloads.
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Petabyte is an hourly GPU rental marketplace where AI developers can rent community GPUs from independent owners for AI experiments, renders, and game servers. Users can compare community GPU prices, memory, and live availability to keep compute costs in check.
Designed for AI developers, 3D artists, and gaming communities, the platform offers ready-made templates for tools like PyTorch, TensorFlow, Stable Diffusion, Blender, Ollama, and Minecraft. Users can choose their tool, compare available hosts, review total costs, and launch workspaces easily.
Payments are secured with escrow-backed prepayments that stay held until work is accepted, with disputed work remaining in review. The platform also allows independent GPU owners to put their idle hardware to work.
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we're not in it for dollars we're in it for decades and I think that it's a you know it's it's it's a nice bumper sticker um and a lot of people would say it if they could but they can't but we can
Price for decades, not dollars (Murdoch's rule)
Refuse short-term pricing decisions that juice the numbers at the cost of goodwill. If you don't financially need to squeeze the community, don't — the long-term option value of an audience that trusts you dwarfs whatever you'd extract this quarter. Most founders can't say this honestly because they're cash-strapped; if you can afford a decade-long horizon, that's a moat competitors can't copy.
The first version took around a week or two it was a web app that kind of just had the core features... it broke many times during the event but we were able to validate the core idea... after we validated with the web app we threw out the first version and that's because I honestly believe that consumer app is basically a craft
Ship a throwaway web validation harness, then rebuild native from scratch
Even if you're building a mobile app, write a scrappy web version in 1-2 weeks and tie it to one real upcoming event (a friend's Halloween party for Once). Let it break in production — the point is to prove the experience works with real strangers, not to ship the actual product. After that one event validates the mechanic, delete the entire web codebase and rebuild on the right platform from a clean slate. Don't let validation code contaminate v1.
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