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Btw, for other people reading this, the main player in the "rentable gamer gpu" space is salad.com who 6 months ago cut a deal with civitai (https://blog.salad.

Btw, for other people reading this, the main player in the "rentable gamer gpu" space is salad.com who 6 months ago cut a deal with civitai (https://blog.salad.com/civitai-salad/ https://blog.salad.com/civitai-salad/). They're trying to capture enterprise customers to use the extra cycles on teenager's gaming rigs. The industry is full of effectively "imitation companies" right now. For instance, runpod, quickpod, simplepod and clore are the ones cloning us at vast right now. We see them in our discord, they try to snipe away customers, get in our comment threads on reddit and twitter with self-promotes, clone our features ... this is the ferocious wild west days of this industry. I've even gotten personal emails from a few who I guess scanned their database looking for registration addresses from other companies in the space. There's even companies like primeintellect which are trying to become the market of markets - but they have their own program - it's clearly a play to snipe other customers by funneling them through some interface where they'll eventually push out the other companies and promote their own instances. Then there's interesting insider hype players with their own infra like sfcompute who are trying to pretend like they invented interruptible instances and somehow get a bunch of people treating them like they're innovators. The resellable contracts they talk about are a pretty common feature and especially from the host's programmatic command line controller, it's just usually tucked deep in the documentation. They're doing effectively a re-prioritization play. I guess my angle is "highest integrity possible". It's certainly a gamble - scammy companies sometimes capture a market then become unscammy - I'll hold my tongue but there's plenty of examples. It's interesting times.

yieldcrv 2y ago
yo, I don’t care bro I guess what I’m missing is, what’s scammy about them? even in the web3 space, AI gpu compute markets are oversaturated but why is an end user supposed to case about the user acquisition strategy? if they’re cheaper, more profitable for the gpu owner, or solving a need better, that’s all that matters
- kristopolous 2y ago
  > what’s scammy about them? You can multi sell a machine, use qemu to lie about the hardware, have hidden fees... there's a bunch of hustle > AI gpu compute markets are oversaturated This is not the case. We see a moving average of over 90% utilization of our network. There's a lot of players, but the demand is outstripping supply > why is an end user supposed to case about the user acquisition strategy? Well hn is founder/insider talk but for a more direct answer, more legit institutions get higher retention and easier customers. We're a two sided marketplace so we need to create a platform where people see integrity.
lostmsu 2y ago
Wow, I question the ethical side of this comment. It starts praising a company as if it were an unrelated entity, then quietly switches to "us", then makes implications about competing enterpreneural efforts being scams without any evidence. And "clones" (as if everyone knew about them - I didn't until about 1y into mine for instance). There's also the hypocrisy of complaining about competitors jumping in on "their threads" in a comment on a competitor thread. Yes, this comment of yours is highly unethical.

yieldcrv 2y ago

yo, I don’t care bro I guess what I’m missing is, what’s scammy about them? even in the web3 space, AI gpu compute markets are oversaturated but why is an end user supposed to case about the user acquisition strategy? if they’re cheaper, more profitable for the gpu owner, or solving a need better, that’s all that matters

kristopolous 2y ago
> what’s scammy about them? You can multi sell a machine, use qemu to lie about the hardware, have hidden fees... there's a bunch of hustle > AI gpu compute markets are oversaturated This is not the case. We see a moving average of over 90% utilization of our network. There's a lot of players, but the demand is outstripping supply > why is an end user supposed to case about the user acquisition strategy? Well hn is founder/insider talk but for a more direct answer, more legit institutions get higher retention and easier customers. We're a two sided marketplace so we need to create a platform where people see integrity.

lostmsu 2y ago

Wow, I question the ethical side of this comment. It starts praising a company as if it were an unrelated entity, then quietly switches to "us", then makes implications about competing enterpreneural efforts being scams without any evidence. And "clones" (as if everyone knew about them - I didn't until about 1y into mine for instance). There's also the hypocrisy of complaining about competitors jumping in on "their threads" in a comment on a competitor thread. Yes, this comment of yours is highly unethical.