[tgma]

You'd think to bootstrap a marketplace you'd spend your own money to feed fake requests (or perhaps allow free chat so that they induce requests).

Still, absolute zero is an unacceptable number. Had this running for more than an hour.

[splittydev]

I kind of see your point, but I also kind of don't.

Sure, it would be great if you'd immediately get hammered with hundreds of requests and start make money quickly. It would also be great if it was a bit more transparent, and you could see more stats (what counts as "idle"? Is my machine currently eligible to serve models?). But it's still very new, I'd say give it some time and let's see how it goes.

If you have it running and you get zero requests, it uses close to zero power above what your computer uses anyway. It doesn't cost you anything to have it running, and if you get requests, you make money. Seems like an easy decision to me.

[usrusr]

Bootstrapping will be near-impossible (or incredibly costly) unless they offer inference consumers models with established demand arriving at some least-cost router service where they can undercut the competition (if they actually can). And then dogfood the opportunistic provider side on their own Macs, but with a preference to putting third parties first in the queue. Everything else is just wishful thinking.

[tgma]

Well I already made the Ctrl+C decision. Yours may have been different, but I suppose only one of us installed it, and that one counts.

[yard2010]

I went with the ctrl z approach.

[jagged-chisel]

Hopefully you also set it running in the background.

[subroutine]

Copy?

[oneeyedpigeon]

SIGINT

[hamiltont]

> We're not taking funds from customers yet — we're personally paying for all the provider requests during this phase. Credit purchases are disabled.

This appears on their credit purchase page right now, but you have to email them to get credits (everyone starts with zero)