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Interesting, these companies are springing up left and right. Software solutions to a hardware problem. It looks like most of the available compute is allocated
by latchkey 3y ago
Interesting, these companies are springing up left and right. Software solutions to a hardware problem. It looks like most of the available compute is allocated, so they are going to have to get a bunch more providers onboarded.
I wonder why y-combinator is stuffing their investments with multiples of these similar companies... https://www.shadeform.ai/ https://www.shadeform.ai/ is another one.
A few quick comments:
Reading the source of their install script:
https://gpudeploy-public.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/join_cluster.sh https://gpudeploy-public.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/join_clu...
It doesn't start off with set -e, which could result in an incomplete install, yet appear to finish.
It also installs some binary "instance-server"... who knows what it does... would you trust this on your server on your network?
It is nvidia specific... sadly, don't expect AMD gpus anytime soon.
Feels like a MVP, let's see how this grows over time.
- dheera 3y agoIs there any way to monitor for sales of hardware if/when any of these companies dies so that I can get 1xH100 for personal use at a deep discount?
- latchkey 3y agoEbay?
- dheera 3y agoIs that where they really go? I feel like buying anything for several thousand dollars on Ebay is sketch. What if they ship me an empty box?
- latchkey 3y agoBack in my crypto asic mining days, I'd hear stories of people receiving boxes of cement blocks. Looks like you can get a MI210 on ebay for $6500, with 30 day warranty. heh. Oh, there are a bunch of H100's there...
- mcmcmc 3y agohttps://www.ebay.com/help/buying/returns-refunds/returns-refunds?id=4008 https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/returns-refunds/returns-ref...
- 15155 3y agoFile a dispute with PayPal? And then with your credit card?
- tptacek 3y agoAs the post points out, this is a pivot from a company that was a consumer of this kind of service in its original incarnation; YC had presumably nothing to do with it.
- latchkey 3y agoThat an interesting presumption. If a startup is "Backed by Y Combinator", and it pivots, you don't think that Y Combinator would have some sort of opinion on that? I would expect some sort of conversation like: "Oh hey, we have another company, in our portfolio, that is far ahead of you, doing exactly the same thing. Maybe you should do something else?" But of course, this is AI... plenty of space for gpu marketplaces.
- dang 3y agoYC partners might have an opinion and might offer advice but they're always going to support what the founders want to do—that's kind of the core principle of YC. As for "other company in portfolio", that's unavoidable when funding thousands of startups and almost always turns out to be a non-issue.
- latchkey 3y agoAwesome, makes perfect sense. Thanks for the clarity @dang. I'm curious now, if you can say. Was advice offered in this case? If so, what was it?
- dang 3y agoI'm not part of such discussions so I'm afraid I have no idea!
- 2024throwaway 3y agoPeople here think you _are_ YC. Little do they know you're far more perceptive and capable than YC.
- moneywoes 3y agowhy does ycombinator invest in companies that will compete against each other, isn’t that a conflict of interest
- gadflyinyoureye 3y agoNope. That allows them to control the market. Find new ideas that could threaten the big 5 status quo. Fund them. Get them bought by one of the big five (making a good amount of money off that). Let the big five shutdown the competition. Conflict of interest only applies if you think they’re concerned with the public good. There is no assumption of that here. Every man for himself.
- 2024throwaway 3y agoAbsolutely not. Why would it be?