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A GERMAN ENGINEER QUIT HIS JOB AT BMW, STRAPPED A 3D PRINTER TO HIS CAT'S BACK AND NOW MAKES $18,000 A MONTH SHIPPING PARTS FROM PARKS his cat is named werner. werner walks around the neighborhood while the printer mounted on his back finishes custom orders. people stop to film him every single day he started this as a joke. posted one video on tiktok. woke up to 4 million views and 230 dms asking where to buy parts. he had no shop, no inventory, no idea what he was doing claude built him a shopify store in one weekend. wrote every product page, every email, every shipping label. he just answers the door when the delivery guy comes for the boxes the printer is 2kg. it runs on a power bank for 6 hours. werner does not care. he gets treats every time a job finishes a traditional 3d printing service pays $11,000 a month in rent and electricity. his overhead is cat food, filament and one shopify subscription. he keeps 94% of every order most people would have laughed at the idea and kept their corporate job. he gave the cat a job instead bookmark this and read the article below
starmex2,622,027 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
NVIDIA QUIETLY DROPPED A $249 BOX THAT REPLACES YOUR $200/MONTH OPENAI SUBSCRIPTION WITH $2 IN ELECTRICITY it's called the jetson orin nano super. smaller than a wallet, runs at 25 watts, does 70 trillion ai operations per second. runs llama 3, mistral, gemma and deepseek locally with no api fees and no data leaving your house a developer running automations and coding assistants pays $200 a month to openai. the same workload on this box costs $2 a month in electricity and breaks even in 10 weeks install ollama with one command. change one line in your code. point it at localhost instead of openai. everything else works identically 7 billion parameter models handle 80% of what people use chatgpt for. summarization, drafting, coding, document q&a, automation pipelines. total monthly cost drops from $200 to $22 cloud subscriptions keep getting more expensive and rate limits keep getting tighter. the people who set this up in 2025 are going to look very smart in 2027 bookmark this and read the article below
starmex2,353,554 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
JENSEN HUANG SOLD A $249 AI COMPUTER ON STAGE THAT KILLS YOUR $200/MONTH OPENAI BILL. THE VIDEO HAS 217,000 LIKES the box is called the jetson orin nano super. 70 trillion ai operations per second, 25 watts, smaller than a wallet. it runs llama 3, mistral, gemma and deepseek locally with no api fees and no data leaving your house a developer running automations and coding assistants pays $200 a month to openai. the same workload on this box costs $2 a month in electricity and breaks even on the hardware in 10 weeks you install ollama with one command. change one line in your code. point it at localhost instead of openai. everything else works identically 7 billion parameter models handle 80% of what people use chatgpt for. summarization, drafting, coding, document q&a, automation pipelines. the hard 20% you keep claude or gpt for. total monthly cost drops from $200 to $22 cloud subscriptions keep getting more expensive and rate limits keep getting tighter. the people who set this up in 2025 are going to look very smart in 2027 bookmark this and read the article below
starmex1,996,910 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
AMD CEO LISA SU HELD A MINI PC ON STAGE THAT RUNS A 235B MODEL AND REPLACES YOUR $440/MONTH AI STACK amd's ryzen ai max+ 395 is the first x86 chip that runs a 200 billion parameter model on one piece of silicon. cpu and gpu share 128gb of unified memory, no separate graphics card needed the gmktec evo-x2 runs qwen3 235b fully, deepseek v3 comfortably and llama 3.3 70b with headroom. on linux you get 110gb of usable vram out of 128gb amd claimed the chip beat an nvidia rtx 5080 by more than 3x on deepseek r1 inference. a lunchbox sized pc outrunning a $1,000 discrete gpu on a real ai workload a heavy ai user pays $200 for claude code max, $200 for chatgpt pro, $20 for cursor and $20 for gemini. that's $5,280 a year and the box pays itself off in 9 to 10 months install ollama, pull the model, point claude code at localhost. same interface, nothing leaves the machine, nothing costs per request bookmark this and read the article below
starmex978,819 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
WAREHOUSES THE SIZE OF A WALMART WITH 4,000 GPUS WERE EARNING $320K A MONTH MINING ETH, THE SAME RACKS NOW EARN $4M A MONTH RENTING TO AI STARTUPS ON VAST AI the warehouse in the clip is one of hundreds across the US, the operator at 6'6" tall for scale, electricity contracts and cooling already in place ethereum's merge in september 2022 killed gpu mining for everyone without a power plant, by 2025 alt coin mining was barely covering the electricity bill the same racks now host RTX 3090s and 4090s on vast ai, indie AI developers priced out of AWS rent them by the hour for inference and image generation a 4090 nets $500 to $1,000 a month renting to AI startups, the same card was clearing $80 to $150 mining, 4 to 7 times the revenue with zero new hardware core scientific, hut 8 and riot have all signed multi billion dollar AI hosting deals in 2025, the warehouses you scrolled past on tiktok are quietly becoming the inference backbone of every AI tool you use bookmark this and read the article below
starmex427,321 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
A 40 YEAR OLD MADE $38,000 IN 45 DAYS PRINTING ONE WIRE NUT THAT COSTS $1.50 AND SELLS FOR $20 michael satterlee is 18 and ran 130 desktop 3d printers in his bedroom last month doing $300,000 in revenue. one product, a tactical can holder that ejects an empty can when you slam a new one in he didn't bet on the printer. he posted one instagram video of the holder and it hit 50,000,000 views. only then did he scale from a handful of machines to 130 in a few weeks this was his second business. at 16 he ran solefully printing charms for crocs and that already hit $20,000 a month. the croc year was paid tuition for the $300k month a bambu lab printer starts at $400 now. auto ejection kits push finished prints off the bed so one machine runs all night unattended. 5,000,000 printers shipped last year alone the median etsy seller makes $183 a month and prints generic phone stands. the ones picking a niche problem and posting one demand-test video are doing $20,000 to $300,000 bookmark this and read the article below
starmex525,924 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
STACKING 4 OLD NVIDIA GTX 1080s GIVES YOU LOCAL AI THAT BEATS $400/MO IN CLOUD SUBSCRIPTIONS people are pulling 4 used gtx 1080s off ebay for around $400 total and stacking them in one tower to build a local ai rig. that pools 32gb of vram across cards that originally retailed at $700 each old gaming cards became cheap when ethereum killed proof of work in 2022. miners dumped millions of them and developers picked them up to run open weight models locally ollama installs in one shell command and pulls a model in another. point claude code at localhost through one environment variable and the cli works identically without sending data to anthropic llama 3.2, mistral 7b, qwen 2.5 and phi 3 all run comfortably on a 1080 stack at 40 to 60 tokens per second. fast enough for real conversations, automation pipelines and document analysis a heavy ai user pays $200 chatgpt pro, $200 claude code and $20 cursor every month. that's $5,040 a year and a $400 rig pays itself off before month two bookmark this and read the article below
starmex370,252 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
> 19 year old from china > $6,000 a month from cs2 > never opened the game once > found out there's a $4B market hiding inside counter-strike > valve doesn't control prices. no taxes, no SEC > the same knife: $214 on steam, $161 on buff163 > that's a 32.9% gap on the exact same item > spent one evening describing what he wanted to claude > claude built an arbitrage scanner, a float sniper, and a news bot > when s1mple retired, a $0.10 sticker hit $0.50 in 2 hours > +400%. entry window was 15 minutes > he caught it while sleeping > the market doesn't close at night > claude doesn't get tired > he just watches the numbers go up > bookmark this and read the article below - it's worth it
starmex663,382 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
GREG ISENBERG JUST INTERVIEWED A SOLO FOUNDER WHO MAKES $1,000,000 A YEAR BUILDING AI AGENTS FOR REAL ESTATE AGENTS the agents cost $5,000 to $10,000 a month per client. boring industries pay the most. real estate, insurance, manufacturing, legal. they have money and they hate using ai he uses obsidian as his second brain because notion can't run agents that actually do work for him his entire stack: granola, trello, loom, superhuman, asana, codex, hermes, orgo, composio, agent mail. gpt 5.5 by default. claude opus for long coding sessions 99% of the market doesn't know what an ai agent is yet. that's the moat. you don't need to be the smartest. you need to be the one who calls them first the full breakdown is in the 45 minute video and it's worth every minute bookmark this and read the article below
starmex495,422 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
A 16-YEAR-OLD IS MAKING $30,000/MONTH ON SPOTIFY. HIS ONLY EXPENSE IS $10 $10 for Suno. $23 a year to publish on Spotify. a niche nobody's fighting for he generates tracks in 30 seconds, uploads 10-20 a week under different artist names, and watches the royalties come in every month sleep music. study music. lo-fi. meditation. the genres real musicians ignore. the same ones keeping people on loop for hours and paying out per stream a woman used the same $10 app and landed a $3,000,000 record deal. she never turned on her camera at the label meeting the window is open. most people will scroll past this bookmark this and give it a few minute this week, then read the article below - it's worth it
starmex478,964 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
EVERYONE BUYING A $2,000 MAC MINI M4 PRO FOR LOCAL AI MISSED THAT A SERVER RESELLER IS UNLOADING DEAD HP PROLIANT DL380 GEN 10 BOXES WITH 5 YEAR WARRANTY, A $250 USED TESLA P40 BOLTED IN RUNS LLAMA 3.3 70B AT HOME 00:19 he stands behind a pallet, "these 10 HP Proliant DL380 Gen 10 servers, they're a few generations older, you guys will be surprised who these servers are going to" a DL380 Gen 10 with dual Xeon Gold 6248 and 256GB of DDR4 ECC sells refurbished for $380-500 in 2026, the same chassis cost $14,000 new in 2018 and got written off the books by every fortune 500 by 2024 drop a $250 used Tesla P40 with 24GB VRAM into one PCIe slot, total bill $650, llama 3.3 70B quantized to 4 bit runs at 9 tokens per second locally, the article calls $2,000 mac mini m4 pro the sweet spot, this stack hits it for a third the seller in the video gives a 5 year warranty on hardware that hyperscalers threw away, the same companies the article warns will jack subscription prices are selling you the rack they used to charge $200 a month to access a 2018 enterprise chassis pulls 280 watts at idle and screams at 65 decibels, the mac mini pulls 10 watts and runs silent, the tradeoff is real but $1,350 cheaper buys a lot of electricity and earplugs over 4 years bookmark this and read the article below
starmex107,995 Aufrufe • vor 27 Tagen
AN AI ARTIST JUST GOT A $50,000,000 RECORD DEAL AND A $1,000,000 BRAND DEAL FROM FENDI. IN 24 HOURS this guy makes $15,000 a month using suno and he's still pissed - not because ai is winning, but because he hasn't figured out how to use it properly yet suno costs $10 a month. distrokid distributes to spotify for $22 a year. no studio, no label connections, no musical talent needed a woman typed her poetry into suno, made an r&b song, it went viral. hallwood media signed her for $3 million and she never turned on her camera at the label meeting suno hit $300 million arr. warner music group stopped fighting and signed a partnership deal instead the window is open. most people will scroll past this bookmark this and read the article below - it's worth it
starmex212,596 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
JENSEN HUANG UNVEILED A $3,000 SUPERCOMPUTER THAT REPLACES $1,900/MONTH IN CLOUD GPUS WITH $2 IN ELECTRICITY. IT FITS ON YOUR DESK a developer was paying $1,900 a month renting a100 and h100 cloud gpus. he bought the dgx spark, set it up in an afternoon, and his monthly bill dropped from $1,900 to $2 in electricity the box runs 128gb of unified memory and 1 petaflop of ai compute. a 4090 gives you 24gb of vram and taps out at 30b models. the spark loads 70b at full precision and stretches to 200b without breaking a sweat break-even hit in 6 weeks. after that the $1,890 he used to wire to a rental company every month stayed in his business. first year that's $22,000 back install ollama, change one line in your code, point it at localhost instead of the cloud. nothing else changes. nothing leaves your machine and nothing costs money per request cloud gpu costs aren't getting cheaper and rate limits keep getting tighter. the people who pulled their ai workloads onto a box on their desk in 2026 are going to look very far ahead in 2028 bookmark this and read the article below
starmex141,376 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
> owner of roblox game "tha bronx 3" > millions a year > rolls royce in the driveway > people tell him roblox is just a kids game > he just opens roblox studio > describes what he wants to claude > claude writes every line of code > publishes the game > roblox pays for every minute players stay > $1.5 billion paid to creators in 2025 > top 10 averaged $38.5 million each > the barrier was always the code > claude just removed it > bookmark this and read the article below - it's worth it
starmex218,515 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
A GERMAN ENGINEER SPENT $7 ON COMPONENTS AND BUILT A CHIP THAT DOES WHAT $80,000 LAB EQUIPMENT DOES. HE POSTED THE BUILD ANYWAY he soldered 47 connections by hand in his bedroom in lithuania. the chip glows blue when powered. the comments on his post asked where to buy one and he replied that he couldn't sell them legally meanwhile a 19 year old in miami opened a shopify store 9 weeks ago and pulled $31,247 last month without shipping a single package. claude runs the entire store for $20 a month claude finds the products. writes every description. runs the ads. answers every customer email. tells him every sunday what to fix. he hasn't opened his inbox in 11 days a traditional shopify operator pays $2,600 a month before a single sale. copywriter $400, va $700, media buyer $1,500. that's why 90% of stores die before month three his total cost is $21 a month and he keeps $16,559 in net profit. six prompts run the whole operation and they're all in the article bookmark this and read the article below
starmex152,980 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
NVIDIA'S BIGGEST COMPETITOR AMD BUILT A BOX THAT RUNS A 235B MODEL AND KILLS $200 OPENAI AND $200 CLAUDE CODE FOR $9 A MONTH amd's ryzen ai max+ 395 is the first x86 chip that runs a 200 billion parameter model on a single piece of silicon with 128gb of unified memory the gmktec evo-x2 runs qwen3 235b fully, deepseek v3 comfortably and llama 3.3 70b with headroom. on linux you get 110gb of usable vram out of 128gb amd claimed the chip beat an nvidia rtx 5080 by more than 3x on deepseek r1 inference. a lunchbox sized pc outrunning a $1,000 discrete gpu on a real ai workload a heavy ai user pays $200 for claude code max, $200 for chatgpt pro, $20 for cursor and $20 for gemini. that's $5,280 a year and the box pays itself off in 9 to 10 months ollama installs in one command and claude code points at localhost so nothing leaves the machine and nothing costs per request bookmark this and read the article below
starmex93,357 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
THIS SOLAR-POWERED MESH NODE PACKS A LOCAL LLM AND A 6-WATT PANEL, KILLED $200 CLAUDE CODE MAX AND $200 CHATGPT PRO SUBSCRIPTIONS THE DAY IT WENT LIVE AND RUNS AT $0/MO EVEN UNDER CLOUD COVER 00:22 he taps the case with the red led blinking, "even though we have complete cloud cover today, the sun's not even out and we're still getting a charge, that's absolutely phenomenal" the node runs a rak 4630 lora board with a 6-watt solar panel, a small battery bank inside the ip67 case, and a raspberry pi zero 2w wedged next to it running a quantized 3b model on ollama from the rooftop it services 71 other meshtastic nodes across the neighborhood offline, and the same box also handles ai queries piped in over the mesh from his phone without touching the internet claude code points at the pi over tailscale, the cli behaves identically to the cloud version except every token generates on his own rooftop under the panel that keeps charging through cloud cover $200 chatgpt pro and $200 claude code max used to hit his card monthly, and the whole stack died the day the rooftop went live because ai queries now travel over lora mesh and generate on his own hardware for free bookmark this and read the article below
starmex50,227 Aufrufe • vor 21 Tagen
NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG UNVEILED THE RTX 3090 AND THE USED VERSION ON EBAY NOW KILLS A $400/MONTH CLAUDE CODE AND OPENAI BILL the rtx 3090 has 24gb of vram, the same as a new rtx 4090 that costs $2,000. for local ai inference vram matters more than anything else and the 3090 sells for $650-800 used it runs qwen 3.6 27b comfortably, deepseek r1 14b at 60+ tokens per second and mistral 7b for fast automation. 16gb of qwen 3.6 fits with 8gb of headroom for long context alibaba's qwen 3.6 27b beats claude 4.5 opus on realworldqa vision 84.1 vs 77.0 and on ifbench instructions 76.5 vs 58.0. a free open weight model out-benchmarks anthropic's flagship a heavy ai user pays $200 for claude code max, $200 for chatgpt pro, $20 for cursor and $20 for gemini. that's $5,280 a year and a used 3090 pays itself off in 3.5 months install ollama, pull qwen 3.6 27b, point claude code at localhost. same interface, nothing leaves the machine, nothing costs per request bookmark this and read the article below
starmex86,410 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
THE NEXT WAVE OF LOCAL AI BUILDERS SHIPS PORTABLE STACKS WITH HANDHELD $40 SDR SCANNERS, LOCAL LLMs ONLY WORK OFF-GRID WHEN SOMETHING ELSE IS LISTENING TO THE AIR 00:30 he opens the case and points at each component, "really it's a pi sugar power pack mounted to a raspberry pi zero 2w and a little adafruit bonnet" the scanner adds a noelec sdr dongle and a 2m antenna, boots up as a spectrum analyzer he takes to the park with his kid to identify local radio transmissions the same maker keeps a $600 mini pc running qwen 3.6 27b on his desk with claude code pointed at localhost, the offline ai handles his coding, writing and research without a single cloud api call the sdr scanner completes the sovereignty stack, the mini pc thinks locally while the scanner listens locally, and neither needs the internet for the parts of his work that used to require it builders who moved off cloud ai are now moving off cloud everything, the pattern isn't just $459 in subscriptions dead but a full stack that survives when the cloud goes down bookmark this and read the article below
starmex40,403 Aufrufe • vor 20 Tagen
THIS 1-WATT RASPBERRY PI ON A MOUNTAIN TOP PIPES AI QUERIES OVER A PRIVATE MESH TO A LOCAL LLM AT HOME, KILLED $200 CHATGPT PRO AND $200 CLAUDE CODE MAX SUBSCRIPTIONS THE DAY IT WENT LIVE 01:25 he picks up the handheld and says, "this node is tough as nails and the battery life is around 10 days" the mountain pi sits a few kilometers from his apartment with a 915 mhz antenna tuned for long range, meshtastic firmware handles the packet routing between nodes on the mesh wireguard stitches the mountain pi to his home rig running qwen 3.6 27b on a used rtx 3090, ai prompts travel over the private mesh and answers come back the same way without ever touching the public internet the ollama stack handles his coding, writing and research from any point on the network, no cloud api reads his prompts and no rate limit hits on a friday launch because nothing runs on someone else's servers $200 chatgpt pro and $200 claude code max used to cover the queries he now sends over his own antennas, the whole subscription stack died the day the pi went live because the local rig handles what those apis used to charge for bookmark this and read the article below
starmex38,666 Aufrufe • vor 20 Tagen