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

Eridrus

Hell yeah, $516 for a complete AWS replacement, I'm in lol!

MattyLinky

This is such a good idea. Hell yeah

fuddle

I feel like using Fable in the name is a mistake, who knows how long that model will be around.

TrueGeek

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.

keyle

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?

xpct

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

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

Is this the new open source?

xyzsparetimexyz

Fantastic idea for a rug pull

bensyverson

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

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

Kinda fun but the approach today is strictly oneshot. Waiting for agentswithwallets to post.

suddenlybananas

https://fablepool.com/projects/7 It didn't even put a picture in!

parliament32

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). edit: they removed it :^)

3adk1a

Everything turns into a computer game and entertainment. Maybe add a "Build a worm that shuts down all Anthropic data centers."

stonesy88

Brilliant idea! We need consensus protocols for voting on phases. Similar to the "twitch" plays Pokemon phenomenom.

orliesaurus

Ok who wants to pool up to build GTA 7? /s

brikym

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.

0xferruccio

This is a genius idea, I love it!!