Oh man, I had literally this exact idea too (although targeting general GPU workloads, not AI specifically). I actually wrote a pretty detailed product roadmap/desiderata/business plan/basic market research/etc note about it.

I ended up not pursuing it to work on a different idea, feeling like Golem would probably eat that lunch. I love the simplicity of your approach - very in the spirit of an mvp. Let me know if you'd like to see the note (teaser: an ad that says "Because not everyone has a 500 GPU cluster", but "not" is crossed out and replaced with "now", over a background image of a Go board).

Anyways, best of luck, I'll be excited to see how it turns out!

This is awesome. Is it necessary that the PC remain fully online throughout the day? I wouldn't mind putting my PC out there but sometimes when I get back from work my modem or router has crapped out and I need to restart things (not the PC), and I've been told it's a few thousand (over 3, actually) to wire up the house with Ethernet so I live with the status quo for now

I saw people on the Reddit thread saying the Ubuntu requirement was a showstopper for a lot of them.

You might look into the Win 10 linux support, Ubuntu is one o the supported distros. Not sure if it would have full access to resources, have just used it a bit at work and setup was super simple.

You mention "free unlimited bandwidth" on the homepage in a column named "1 TB transfer". A lot of people have upstreams in the order of 1MBit/s – with such speeds, uploading a TB would take 92 days.

That seems misleading ^^.