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Ask HN: What if anyone could sell AI tokens from their idle GPU?

A Hacker News user posting as edurights-team floated an idea to let individuals turn idle GPUs into APIs on a shared network, similar to OpenRouter, with a proposed $10/month plan. The Ask HN post, submitted 15 minutes before the snapshot, drew 1 point and 2 comments and asked whether readers would be interested in joining.

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| | | 1 point by edurights-team15 minutes ago |hide |past |favorite |2 comments | | | | I have an idea: what if everyone could turn their own GPU into an API and put it on a network for other people to use? Then we could build something similar to OpenRouter. I’m also thinking about offering a $10/month plan. Would you guys be interested in joining? |

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