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Life & fun · July 10, 2024

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H100cloud.com – Dutch Auction Cloud Exchange

Hey HN! We’re Thomas and Andrew, and we just built a Dutch auction exchange for cloud H100 rentals. It’s live at https://www.H100cloud.com. Auctions traditionally start at a base price and work their way up. That doesn’t work for cloud computing — would you ever want to be outbid and lose your data? Our Dutch auction model starts at a ceiling — $3.50/hr per H100. We lower prices every six hours until servers are picked up by buyers. We stop lowering them when prices reach a $2.20 floor. When you rent a server, the price is locked until you delete the server. You’ll never get…

H100cloud.com – Dutch Auction Cloud Exchange launched on July 10, 2024 with 11 votes, #1,369 of 5,184 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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H100cloud.com is a cloud rental exchange for Nvidia H100 GPUs that uses Dutch auction pricing to allocate inventory. Prices start at $3.50 per hour and decrease every six hours until reaching a $2.20 floor, at which point the price locks in for the rental duration. The platform addresses the challenge of balancing cloud pricing between inventory scarcity and utilization rates, ensuring customers won't be outbid and lose access once rented.

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Hey HN! We’re Thomas and Andrew, and we just built a Dutch auction exchange for cloud H100 rentals. It’s live at https://www.H100cloud.com. Auctions traditionally start at a base price and work their way up. That doesn’t work for cloud computing — would you ever want to be outbid and lose your data? Our…

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