Will there be Spanish lessons to try out?
Definitely coming soon!
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nicowaltz commented on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs gpudeploy.com... · Posted by u/nicowaltz
I like how signing up requires agreeing to the terms of service and privacy policy, but both links go to empty pages.
These links should work now, at least they do for me. We use a third party service called Termly for these, I think there was an issue with the url (missing the www).
nicowaltz commented on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs gpudeploy.com... · Posted by u/nicowaltz
I've never run a start-up (successful or otherwise :) ) but I've also heard that being able to pivot can be really useful - Flickr is often cited as an example.
Also, "GPU on demand" sounds _a_lot_ easier than "drone-based delivery". Between Seti@Home/Folding@Home/etc, various grid-computing/clustering/orchestration stacks that already exist, etc it seems reasonably doable to implement in a year or so. "drone-based delivery" sounds capital-intensive, sounds like you'll need to spend a lot of time building a professional network of business people who might use the service (so there's a 'cultural friction' between techie founders and business folks, potentially), plus the ever-looming threat of Amazon/etc figuring this out first.
tl;dr: I agree it's weird pivot, and good on the founders for being able to make the change! :)
While most people think it's cool and some think it's scary, drone delivery is ultimately something that people (that is: companies with money) don't need.
Turns out, using drones to deliver is also not that competitive either. Delivery vans are very cost-efficient, and for food delivery / on-demand delivery, drones are not able to carry most orders. So it's not even the regulatory pains that make this difficult, which are unbearable in their own right.
It was a lot of fun to work on and we would have definitely stuck with it if there was any interest. There was none, so we had to admit that to ourselves.
This is a hard pivot, but it's been very stimulating to work on.
nicowaltz commented on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs gpudeploy.com... · Posted by u/nicowaltz
We own and operate 40+ data center GPUs (v100s, a100s, and ax000s) in a private cluster and use vast to rent unused capacity.
What would make you better than vast is extremely easy spot leasing and job prioritization.
I want to be able to have one of our training jobs finish, and then have the capacity immediately transition to a lease. With vast, we are renting in week long blocks.
Exactly, that's the idea
nicowaltz commented on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs gpudeploy.com... · Posted by u/nicowaltz
What kind of utilization percentages do you expect to be able to provide? Do you have any existing usage/ROI data?
Just launched but will put a panel on the landing page for that, once the data comes in.
nicowaltz commented on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs gpudeploy.com... · Posted by u/nicowaltz
Side note: you contact form doesn’t work - do you have an email I send some questions over to?
Sure, nico@gpudeploy.com
nicowaltz commented on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs gpudeploy.com... · Posted by u/nicowaltz
nicowaltz commented on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs gpudeploy.com... · Posted by u/nicowaltz
Love the concept.
I've used vast.ai (similar "Airbnb for GPUs" pitch) for years to spin up cheap test machines with GPUs you can't really find in the cloud (and especially consumer-grade GPUs like 4090s). Any insight into how this is different/better?
Main difference is that we are more opinionated (in terms of configurations) and sort of do the scrolling and sorting out for you – hopefully a bit smoother as a user experience. We sort out bad machines immediately. We're also directly working on making compute from unknown high-end data centers available, there's a lot of unused compute out there! See gpulist.ai
Also, don't know if vast.ai does this, but with us you can have 6 user sessions on your machine if you have six GPUs, so granular utilization is possible.