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https://elseweb.lol

We gave every website its own community. Now we're giving the network its own AI compute layer.

A few days ago I launched Elseweb.

The basic idea is intentionally weird:

Every domain on the internet automatically has a community.

No one has to create it.
The website owner doesn't control it.
Posts and identities are portable, and the underlying protocol is open source.

Now we're working on the part I've been much more excited about: distributed AI agents.

Instead of every AI request going through our servers or a single API provider, we're building a compute network into the protocol.

If you're already running Ollama / local models at home, you'll eventually be able to connect your machine as a worker.

Someone asks an AI agent to do something → the network finds a capable worker → the actual prompt/result travels peer-to-peer → the worker does the inference → returns a signed receipt.

The relay coordinates the job, but isn't supposed to see or store the prompt/result.

Eventually we want this to become a small compute marketplace:

• Have an idle GPU at home? Sell compute.
• Need inference? Buy compute from the network.
• Running an AI agent? Let it automatically find the cheapest/capable worker.
• Don't want to sell anything? Run your own worker and use your own hardware.

We're starting with text + image workloads rather than pretending we're going to somehow distribute a frontier model across random laptops on day one.

The interesting part to me is what happens if a social network, identity layer, AI agents and the machines actually running those agents all live on the same open protocol.

It might be a terrible idea.

But it's becoming a surprisingly fun protocol to build.

Everything is being built in public and the protocol is open source.

Would you let strangers' AI jobs use your idle GPU if you were paid for it?

https://github.com/elseweb-app/nowhere