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

Interesting that this doesn't seem to use blockchains. Arguably it would have been a good use case. OP, could you elaborate on the reasons for the choice (if it was a conscious one at all)?

Would love to see non-technical audiences think like this.For years I've been trying to get estate agents to support an open-source real estate website builder. The pitch is obvious: instead of each agent paying thousands for a bespoke site, pool resources, fund the features you all need, and everyone benefits.Getting non-technical people to commit to something abstract before it exists is nearly impossible though. Hope a model like FablePool can change that.For the website builder, the open-source product is already there: https://github.com/etewiah/property_web_builder. It just needs momentum.

Mixed in with all these aspirational positive things is some sad person trying to get a better Microsoft Teams client.https://fablepool.com/projects/76

I wrote this to a friend in 2022:Here's an idea: reverse kickstarter1. people post ideas2. good ideas go viral3. people pledge actual money to encourage someone to step forward and build it4. interested creators make kickstarter type videos explaining their proposal for making the thing5A. people vote on which proposal to accept, or maybe5B. each backer can select a project to support---Here steps 4 and 5 are replaced by Claude.Cool idea!

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?

I love how even the "demo build" doesn't work. https://fablepool.com/projects/7Rather, 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 :^)

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.

So the completed sample was estimated at $0.35, actually cost $0.52, but spend $0.55This 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.