taylorhou

teale.com - distributed ai inference using networked devices essentially folding@home but sharing underutilized ram (when you're asleep, someone else in the world is awake)

would really appreciate testers but also any companies thinking about distributed inference powered by their own company devices on a private network. my own company has 200+ 16gb ram machines that we're using for inference.

Let's collab. I'm one guy too but I built distributed inference network (teale.com) banging away for about a month with opus/gpt

I built Teale.com and opensourced it. My domain contribution to society. It powers fully distributed inference on Mac, windows, Linux, android, iOS, hell even harmonyOS.

Opensource/weight models will get better and better and eventually we will have mythos level running on smartphone/eyeglass hardware.

It is stupidly tedious currently to match supply with demand though because physical hardware like a 16gb ram MacBook doesn't mean there's truly 16gb available let alone matching models and all of their settings (kvcache, context limit, temperature, etc) to demand.

Would appreciate any help cus we need ai inference by the people for the people.

APMHelp.com / PM-in-a-box.org || AI native growth marketer | Remote | Contract/Full-time/part-time

We're an outsourced accounting firm specializing in property management (appfolio, buildium, rentvine) that's building an open source ai harness/orchestrator for property managers.

$7M ARR, cash flow positive, looking to re-envision marketing/growth ai native.

email taylor at the apmhelp domain or comment and i'll reach out. =)

this is awesome. i'm the founder/maintainer at teale.com (open source distributed inference app) and one of the biggest challenges has been an actually usable/reliable local model that can run on 8gb macbook air's, 6gb android smartphones, etc... will get some of our test machines serving needle

is this available for other open source projects? i'm stealing tokens from my employer effectively and keep hitting my limits re: codex tokens o_O

i'm working on github.com/teale-ai (distributed inference)

250+ employees on the lowest paid subscriptions of claude or openai is $5k/month. their usage of AI is chatbot most of the time which local models/inference can easily handle. so just being able to cancel those subscriptions with local hardware makes my break even on a single $10k mac studio 2 months and honestly the mac studio for their use is overkill.

Distributed ai inference pool for any Mac/iOS device where devices are paid for contributing unused ram. To help with the demand, also doing multiplayer AI. $0.05/million tokens - teale.com

Booked a time! We built senior smartphone assistance without humans

We combo frontier coding models with last frontier for more admin stuff.

Annecdotal here but I've been buying studios with as much ram as possible. I probably got in one of the last orders for the m3 ultra 512gb ram officially from apple late February right before they took that config down. I know this because the very next day I went back to order more and couldn't.

There's a ton of spam on ebay currently with configs of the 512gb ram variant going for sub $4k. Those are all scams/spam. You can tell instantly because the seller's account is/was created this month 2026.

The $20k+ listings aren't selling but what's interesting is technically, $20k for 512gb ram is still less than $40/gb ram on a single device. Compare that to a Nvidia spark with 128gb ram selling at $4k+ or if you're lucky, you snagged one for ~$3500. That's $31.25/gb

The retail on the 512gb was $9500 and after tax if you don't ship to a sales tax free state makes it only $20/gb ram.

I'm curious what price apple's newest studio variant will be priced at per gb ram but I recently bought a "refurb" from a reputable seller I've purchased many laptops from in the past at $13,750 which still put the 512gb at a $27/gb ram price point.

I'm bullish on local models especially due to gemma4. Good luck out there!

A bunch of ideas that have had domains but never enough engineers. Now there isn't enough time it seems except when I've hit my LLM subscription limits and they need to cool down.

Already launched biz-in-a-box.org and a life-in-a-box.org spinoff as frameworks to replace every entity's QuickBooks. I'm using them myself for every project my agents are spinning up.

Stealth project is related to classpass but for another category of need that won't go away even in the age of AI that really is only possible with critical mass of supply to meet existing demand. Super excited cus there's no better time to build with unlimited agents that scale without people problems.

Lastly, can't wait to run local LLMs so no longer limited by tokens/money.

Deploying robots within the next 6 months, not some 6+ years from now.. if anyone is interested in joinin9, DM.

996 - it's a global marketplace of talent and very few in America are willing to work 996. If you are, you either are the founder type or young and unshackled.

Fyxed.com | Fintech Engineers | Fully Remote

Fyxed deploys capital to landlords and their property managers for cash needs like repairs, turnovers, and improvements on rental properties.

We're at an inflection point where we have the deployment capital ($50M) to really take a big swing at this opportunity.

The perfect candidate has prior fintech (lending) experience, loves wrangling the complexities of reconciling/tracking money, and bonus points if you've built on top of Column.com's API.

Email me directly: taylor at fyxed dot com

Houmanoids | https://houmanoids.com | Lots of roles

We're integrating robots in and around buildings (focused in America for now). Example usecases:

- security guards, doormen, receptionists (low mobility using humanoids)

- security patrol around perimeter of buildings (high mobility using dogs)

- moving things/packages within a building (last step package delivery)

We are building on top of Unitree's hardware and there's lots to do.

- abstraction layer similar to Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android

- appstore

- example reference apps (think mail, calculator, camera, maps)

996 work environment due to collaboration/communication requirements with folks in China and insatiable demand for deploying robots.

deploy at houmanoids.com goes to myself (founder) and cto/cofounder

to add to the post, our humans are all over the world but we have folks in the States, Latam, Philippines, and other SE Asian countries. they primarily do accounting/bookkeeping tasks today (for us at APM Help which I'm the founder).

APM Help | Remote | Full-time Software Engineers (engineering manager, security manager, go developer, banking & fintech engineers

We help manage 1 million+ residential rentals across America (primarily accounting, banking & finance) and we're likely to double our engineering team from 8 > 16 this year (broader co is 250+ FTE).

We have 3 engineering & product teams (US, Brazil, South Asia) and likely will prioritize folks in those regions.

Specific call outs for: - product folks with banking/fintech experience - financial/data analyst on hundreds of thousands of financials - crypto/dao lawyer

Please don't just send a resume but help us get excited about you by sending an email to "hn at apmhelp.com" the group is monitored by founder (me), CIO & CTO

sigh. hate having to do this but i've exhausted all other efforts. really hope airbnb can get back to its glory days as my experience is nothing short of embarrassing.

sorry it's not the same work and most of the time no where close to same effort. there are timezone, culture, language, and many other differences that have to be bridged so when I can hire an engineer in the US for $200k and an international engineer for $200k (with all of the differences), the reality is, i'm going to hire a US engineer doing the "same work".

meh. it's just the reality and the last time i posted (and hired a few from HN post), it was a recurring thing. we actually pay above market locally but when someone in Brazil is demanding $200k/year USD to start... it unfortunately turns into a non-starter.

APM Help | Fully Remote | Senior Engineers | Full-Time | https://www.apmhelp.com

Howdy! APM Help is silently one of the largest SFR (single family rental) operators in America with over 300k units we help manage. We see ourselves becoming the operations layer (back office) of every local (boots on the ground) property manager in America. We have big challenges we think can be solved with tech/automation/AI in the areas of leasing, accounting, maintenance, finance, insurance, and compliance because every single rental unit is effectively a small business.

We're effectively bootstrapped ($7M+ ARR), cash flow positive, operating close to the Rule of 60 and we're looking for engineers who are maybe tired of the hype and wanting to solve real fundamental problems in housing in America.

Email me directly with more than just a resume if interested! taylor at apmhelp dot com

Side note - we're very happy with international engineers but if you come to me asking for a US engineer comp, it takes away the primary reason why we'd consider international in the first place.

Will take years to upgrade the entire fleet. Until then…T_T

ACE score of 0. Based on the questions, I had a gifted upbringing. I need to do more with my life considering.

second this 1000%

APM Help | Full-time CTO | Fully Remote | www.apmhelp.com America's largest residential rental operations platform

We currently help manage 300k+ SFR in 49 States with all things back office but primarily property accounting and compliance.

We're effectively bootstrapped, $6M+ ARR, cash flow positive, growing 20%+ y-o-y

We have a crack team of engineers led by a fantastic architect/eng manager but I'm still looking for the technical co-founder mentality to solve problems with weekend sprints/mvp's (build 0-1) and then hand off to a team to stabilize and scale.

Comp will be competitive with equity (if valued) - we usually give 3 options. cash no options, cash + options, little cash more options.

Please email me directly: taylor at apmhelp dot com

I've been working from home since 2017. Had a brief (scary) ulna neuropathy (nerve issue in arm) where when you're arm is constantly pressed against the edge of your desk or laptop and causes the pinky and eventually more fingers to go numb.

was diagnosed and recommended surgery... said eff that i'm too young (was early thirties at the time) and landed on switching to a standing setup. within 2 weeks of giving my arm relief, the neuropathy disappeared and hasn't come back since. i've convinced many at my company to switch to a standing setup and miraculously the health problems started to dissipate.

eventually i had a similar thought as you. what if i could get steps in WHILE working?!? i bought 2 under desk treadmills to try, both were fine and with noise cancelling mics, no one could hear the subtle whirring.

since we're a fully remote company, i have some coworkers that would complain that THEY were getting motion sickness looking at me as i walked in our meetings. returned the treadmills after that. fwiw - i ended up training for an ironman and got an indoor bike setup for winter training - no one complained about motion sickness with that. =)

I think being forced to join an HOA when purchasing a property will be challenged one day. At least when it comes to SFR where most hoa's aren't actually doing anything with your specific property.

Sesame/orange chicken over rice food trucks that operate like vending machines. Can only order one thing and just indicate quantity to pay.

$10 each. Super hot, super fresh, super tasty, super filing, super consistent, super value, hmm maybe I'll call it super chicken.

i've standardized my whole company on X1 carbons and X1 nanos. plenty of refurb options and recently lenovo even sold x1 carbon g11 32gb ram for $800! (snagged as many as I could). and lenovo/thinkpad's warranty options are fantastic. we've sent 10+ with re-activated warranties and never had an issue getting them repaired. for context - we have 200+ staff with over 100 laptops deployed.