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

Re:Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fabl... by pjc50 on Friday June 12, 2026 @05:54AM (#48501993)

I wonder why people are more eager to pool money to pay a corporate-owned computer to build things than to the actual humans who have been building open source for decades? Much of which has ended up in the training set?

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Re:Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fabl... by eptcyka on Friday June 12, 2026 @06:04AM (#48502074)

Humans are more expensive.

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Re:Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fabl... by delijati on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:51AM (#48503497)

Humans can also use LLM's even a local LLM

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Re:Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fabl... by vntok on Friday June 12, 2026 @12:08PM (#48505901)

That's even more expensive.

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Re:Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fabl... by KeplerBoy on Friday June 12, 2026 @06:39AM (#48502323)

LLM output is just very predictable. If you spend 200$ on that /goal you will get some output. It may or may not work perfectly, but there will be a repo with some progress. If you specced the goal well and it is feasible, a decent model will most likely get you decent progress.

Also who would take on any of these projects for a meager 200$? Most of that stuff is borderline interesting, clearly not interesting enough for the people proposing the things to start working on them themselves.

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Re:Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fabl... by nullbio on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:35AM (#48503338)

Exactly. This screams crowdfunding for AI labs. Who made this? Someone at Anthropic?

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Re:Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fabl... by sanreds on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:09AM (#48504329)

Fablepool spends Anthropic's inference budget and puts the output under MIT, thats not growing Anthropic's moat, its commoditizing it. Anthropic just sells the API calls either way.

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Re:Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fabl... by hereme888 on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:54PM (#48512326)

Price?

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