What if a non-profit developer community ran its own shared high-end GPU node funded through prepaid subscriptions? Instead of paying heavy commercial API markups, a core team manages the cluster and passes access straight to members. The raw math says about 500 people prepaying $30 a month covers a $15k/mo cluster, but I'm curious if something like this is actually viable in practice or if we're missing major hidden hurdles.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1v8ekby/pitching_a_midnight_deepthought/