ComputeShare Optimizer
A consumer dashboard for everyday GPU owners (gamers, students, 3D-artists with idle RTX cards) that auto-routes their spare cycles to whichever distributed-AI network is paying best at that hour, and learns when not to interrupt gaming or render jobs.
Hobbyist GPU owners with idle hardware who want passive income without babysitting multiple clients
- One-click pairing across Talos, Vast, Salad, io.net and similar networks with one Talos-style pair code per network
- Live 'best network right now' switcher that pushes workloads to the highest $/hour job type
- Smart schedule that pauses sharing during Steam/gaming hours and resumes when the box is idle
- Earnings dashboard with tax-ready CSV and profit-per-kWh so users can see real margin after electricity
AI compute demand is outstripping supply and competing GPU-share networks (Talos, Vast, Salad, io.net, Render) have each built their own walled-off client — hobbyists are stuck juggling five installs and have no way to compare real payouts, so a router sits exactly where the pain is.
Multiple active GPU-share networks (Salad, Vast, io.net, Render, Talos) each have user-facing tools; Talos repo has 530 stars and a live worker client, and Griddly.ai even publishes a 2025 GPU-earnings calculator, confirming a hobbyist supplier audience actively sizing up passive income.jmerelnyc/Talos — GPU worker client for the Talos network ↗GPU Earnings Calculator 2025: How Much Can You Earn? ↗
No clear unified router exists; the closest adjacent products are comparison pages (getdeploying, gpuperhour, poolcompute) and the community-built salad-tools.novatech.gg dashboard, but none auto-route jobs across networks — leaving an open niche, though Render bringing Salad in as an exclusive subnet signals networks are starting to consolidate.Salad GPU Demand Tracker & Earnings Tools | salad-tools.novatech.gg ↗Render and Salad Examine Onchain Payment Rails and GPU Supply Scaling ↗
Target users are hobbyists chasing small passive payouts (often <$1/hr per card); the dominant adjacent tools (salad-tools.novatech.gg, griddly calculator, comparison sites) are free, so willingness to pay for a router layer is weak and a take-rate on earnings is the only realistic model.Salad GPU Demand Tracker & Earnings Tools | salad-tools.novatech.gg ↗GPU Earnings Calculator 2025: How Much Can You Earn? ↗
AI compute demand is genuinely hot and likely to persist, but the value of a cross-network router shrinks as networks merge (Render+Salad subnet deal) or build their own unified clients, so the window is medium-term rather than durable.Render and Salad Examine Onchain Payment Rails and GPU Supply Scaling ↗
Building per-network adapters against 5+ walled, undocumented APIs (each with its own auth, payout model, and miner protocol — Talos uses WebSocket+Ollama, others use different stacks) plus reliable gaming/render interruption detection is non-trivial engineering for a small team.jmerelnyc/Talos — GPU worker client for the Talos network ↗