Co-founder @hubdotxyz | YC P26. Real-world data lab.
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AI, shaped by humanity.
Hub (@hubxyz) provides real-world training data to frontier AI labs and robotics.
Human labor is half of global GDP. Almost none of it has ever been recorded.
Hub opens access to it through a global network of contributors capturing hard-to-access data.
Congrats on the launch, @xarmin and @tim404x!
ycombinator.com/launches/Qoe…
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Your job pays you once. Now it can pay you twice.
Commercial tasks are live on Hub. Until today, you earned by recording tasks at home.
Now you can record your actual job: the shop, the salon, the farm, the workshop, the factory and more.
Same hours you already work. The difference is they count now, at a higher rate than household tasks.
What do you do at work that a robot could never do?
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🇧🇷 One of our contributors just aired on Brazil's biggest television network.
A news segment. No ad spend. Her, recording her own day with Hub, getting paid for it.
For the first time in history, anyone with a phone can help teach machines how the physical world works.
Thousands of people already are.
This is what it looks like before everyone else catches on.
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Hub creators have now recorded over 2,000,000 clips of everyday human tasks.
At home: folding laundry, weeding a garden, taking care of animals.
On the job: mechanics, agriculture, construction, and many more. This side is scaling fast, and will soon cover any kind of work a human can do.
Real people, in the wild. First person, across the Americas.
This is the physical world getting written down for the first time, and it is the one thing robots cannot learn from the internet.
What could you teach a robot that nobody else can?
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POTENCIAL DE GANHO TREINANDO IA
Tarefa padrão (R$25/h):
→ 30min/dia = 15h/mês = R$375
→ 1h/dia = 30h/mês = R$750
→ 2h/dia = 60h/mês = R$1.500
→ 3h/dia = 90h/mês = R$2.250
Tarefa turbinada (R$30/h):
→ 30min/dia = 15h/mês = R$450
→ 1h/dia = 30h/mês = R$900
→ 2h/dia = 60h/mês = R$1.800
→ 3h/dia = 90h/mês = R$2.700
Indicação (R$2,50/h por indicado direto):
→ 5 indicados gravando 30h/mês = 150h = R$375
→ 10 indicados gravando 30h/mês = 300h = R$750
→ 20 indicados gravando 30h/mês = 600h = R$1.500
Agora o quanto você quer dedicar de tempo fazendo tarefa ou indicando pra outras pessoas, depende do seu foco.
No meu caso minha mulher ta fazendo as tarefas em casa e eu to focando em ensinar para melhorar a performance de quem to indiciando e por esse motivo eu fiz um artigo.
Esse mercado ainda é novo, então tem que aproveitar agora.
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We're hiring a founding engineer. France, remote.
Robot foundation models learn to move by watching humans, and nobody ever filmed that.
We create the data that fills the gap. The biggest labs in AI are downstream of what you'd build.
Small team. Real ownership. No layers.
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Apply here: ycombinator.com/companies/hu…
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If you want real ownership from day one, this is the role.
🇧🇷 Hub is hiring a Field Operator in São Paulo
Full ownership of the ground there: closing businesses, installing kits, training crews, keeping the recordings flowing.
We hire on drive, not resume, this can be someone's first real job.
Know someone built for this? Refer them and share this post. If we hire your referral, you get $500.
Apply on our profile.
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YC really said goodbye to our batch with:
"please do not be mid"
noted @ycombinator
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5 million humanoid robots working 24/7 can build Manhattan in ~6 months. now just imagine what the world looks like when we have 10 billion of them by 2045. now imagine the year 2100.
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Tuesday, June 2nd:
@ycombinator demo day in 2 weeks.
Woke up in São Paulo. Sourcing egocentric data collection for one of the biggest labs in the world.
Boots on the ground, scaling to 1M+ hours across LATAM & the US.
You have to live the motto.
"Make something people want"
Wherever it brings you.
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🌎 He didn't know what AI was. He knew his neighborhood
Three weeks. 50 contributors. $4,000/month at scale
That's what a Hub Scout builds
South America is open
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🇧🇷 The AI economy is being built city by city.
By real people on the ground.
We need someone to build that in Brazil.
São Paulo only.
Apply it and share it with someone you know who is based in Brazil:
nitter.net/i/jobs/206146522335823…
Made with AI
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🌎 The next economy runs on real-world human data
Every street. Every voice. Every daily life.
Most people living in it are unaware they’re sitting on something the world hasn’t yet priced.
We're hiring a network of Field Recruiters who want to change that in their city.
Part of that is your network. Most of it is everyone else.
South and North America only
If this resonates, apply ⬇️
nitter.net/i/jobs/205957066910120…
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Users in Latin America can now apply to become scouts.
Scouts recruit and train local data contributors.
Want to join them? ⤵️
Everyone knows who uses AI
Nobody knows who builds it
It all starts with a scout.
Join now: hubxyz.notion.site/368f90b39…
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Our first founder built a 1M people community responding in seconds to provide niche images to frontier labs 🖼️
🗓️ YC Daily Shoutout #1: @tim404x and @hubxyz
Tim is in my @ycombinator Group Office Hour: he arrives with no sleep in and shows how he crushed his revenue goals 🔥
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Real moments from real lives beat lab-generated variations every time.
This is what happens when you trust contributors to define the data
🧪 The most useful AI training data isn't in a lab
It's in 1,000 camera rolls across the world. Taken over years.
$15 per accepted submission. Every entry is a raffle ticket for a $5,000 prize pool.
Wednesday only.
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That one filled up fast... 🤯
Now put the notifications ON 🔔
A bigger data hunt is coming in a few min/hours.
→ 20 Photos of you. 20 different environments.
→ Taken over the last months & years.
Are you ready for what's coming? 👀
Smile. Frown. Look surprised. Go angry
Hub's new selfie task captures 10 facial expressions per contributor.
Real-world data no synthetic pipeline can generate. 1,000 slots.
$3,000 split equally between everyone accepted, paid in 24 hours.
You are the data AI can't fabricate.
More details and an extra opportunity await in Discord ⬇️
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