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by swyx 1359 days ago
i find it really cool that you can drop $1k a day on a project like this: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1577006975270866944?s=20...

this is the kind of aggressiveness/risk taking that people need to find hits in the new AI business

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I am still not sure whether it was a typo in his math. He said "100,000 renders * 1/2 cent per render"[0] when someone asked him how come he was paying that much. And when someone asked a similar question to how the math worked out, there was no reply.

Still not sure how to interpret this, no matter how I look at it. 100k renders at 1/2 cent each comes out to only $500 total. Someone guessed that he could've meant $0.5 when he said "1/2 cent each", but that comes out to $50k total. Whichever math mistake I was trying to intentionally make, I failed to arrive at $1k. Could it be that his math was correct, but the total number was the one that contained the typo?

Not trying to accuse him of lying, I believe it was a genuine mistake or a typo, but as of now, I am still left not knowing whether the stated number was the one he actually meant or whether his math was wrong.

Sidenote: the actual product is great, and I absolutely dig the idea of it too.

0. https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1577007745668067328?s=46...

Sorry I'm not US, with 1/2 cent I meant 1 to 2 cent. Actually it's more like 1-4 cents depending on image dimensions. A square image is 1 cent, a wide image can be 4 cents. But yes it's not cheap
Ah, makes sense, thanks for clarifying, I really appreciate it. Until this moment, I was genuinely trying every possible interpretation I could think of, but this one never crossed my mind.
I read it as 1/2 cent as in 1 or 2 cent per render.