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

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.

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 :^)

I'd love to see Anthropic (or someone with mythos access) create a cybersecurity version of this. So that I could create a pool that says "find security concerns in this github repo." Then the report from mythos gets sent to the code/project maintainer and revealed to the public (that paid for it) at the 90 day mark.

"Solve Garbage Collection in C# for HFT · $10.00 raised of est. $200.00 target"

This can't be serious.

Broader point I am making is, what differentiates genuine ideas from the token burn? What happens when the pool exhausts but the task is not done?

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.

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

We have entered the GoFundMe era of vibe coding.

Almost all of the examples on the website are ridiculous, which in turn makes your project look bad.

Imho you should wipe them, populate it with some realistic small scale ideas and be much more strict in review, at least for now.

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.

They should have called this "WishingWell". I'm wishing them well, but some of these projects are so over the top pie-in-the-sky silly, and funded with $0.25.

This will be an excellent demonstration of what AI is incapable of.

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.

  i built a turbofan
  https://app.confbuild.com/p/z459
  
  now I want to build a complete Airbus as detailed as possible with give budget

This is genius! I can already see improved versions of this idea making it big.

Seems similar to open source bounties, which have been tried in the past and never succeeded.

We've seen something like 20+ years of different attempts of voluntary donations to fund open source, and it never worked. Companies barely fund anything voluntarily.

I'm taking the opposite approach with Supported Source (https://supso.org/) which is this: actually force companies to pay to use the project. Sell commercial licenses. Make it mandatory to using your software commercially. This approach works much, much better than voluntary donations.

Do we need a cryptocurrency for trading / donating LLM compute tokens ?

Excellent idea, I see a few issues though.

First, your server is struggling. It took about 20+ seconds to respond just now, FYI.

Second, it's not obvious to me that I can get my money back if something doesn't pan out / get approved by a certain date from the homepage alone. That might make people hesitant to put anything in if they think it might get locked in there forever if the site dies / you take it down / etc.

> Make Fable 6

$1.00 raised of est. $205.00 target

Humans shouldn't provide estimates.

Fantastic idea for a rug pull

it's remarkable how easy it is to identify websites built with the "frontend-design" skill in Claude

This is actually kinda exciting. I threw in an open-source idea I've been playing with, and paid $25. I hope it comes back up soon or I'm going to have to put Fable on building a replacement.

Can built project really have MIT license? Considering MIT license still holds copyright but AI generated code cannot by copyrighted?

Man, I really hope this kind of effort could be put into auditing the security situation of open source projects (via Mythos or not.)

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I forgot to fully describe the prompt since I already described it a bit on the title of the submission, which might be a problem. I hope the title of the submission itself is included alongside the prompt when giving instructions to the AI.

Does fable write the plan? It says builds run on fable 5, but doesn't specify which AI writes the plan from the prompt.

edit: oh, I see in one of the build logs it says "Planning started (model: claude-fable-5)"

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?

I'd fund "clone fablepool" for $5. Should be plenty.

This is precisely what I thought the other day. TBH my idea is slightly better.

But I stopped after asking Claude about it. It categorically told me that the moment you fund a model, you are legally liable for its actions.

How to get around it?

Really fun idea that is simultaneously deeply embarrassing for Anthropic.

"Make Fable 6

same but different than this https://github.com/adv0r/tokens-for-good

I got an idea similar to this where the user can donate their tokens instead of dollars.

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

Everything turns into a computer game and entertainment.

Maybe add a "Build a worm that shuts down all Anthropic data centers."

Could anyone post a project to turn that site into phub for LLMs?

This is a genius idea, I love it!!

This strikes me as crowd-funded prompt caching, but with humans in the loop.

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

attach github to this. this is the new way to do opensource i guess

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

"Build a completely greenroom, open source AWS" – $700

This is engineering theatre (pun intended).

The amount of hubris here is exceptional, the author doesn't even know that it's "clean room" rather than "green room". What does it even mean to build an open source AWS? There are many open source IaaS/PaaS components. Is the author suggesting any hardware design, because that's a critical component.

The only possible result of this is an AWS fanfic. An art project that looks vaguely like a cloud provider on the surface if you squint, but with zero substance to it.

And this criticism has nothing to do with AI. You'd get the same spending 100x that budget on any engineering team.

Has anything been successfully built?

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I could see something like this working if you actually had a assigned human developer(s) to assist the task. There are few interesting tasks that can actually be completed in one (or few) shot and have anything usable.

I need an X11/Wayland successor that has the simplicity of X11 but can be used assl a drop in replacement for Wayland

Made something very close to this, but not model specific. Ill try to shape it up tonight and tmr and drop it, would be cool to colab!

Like DeFi but for agencies.