motive.md
BOINC + Kickstarter for shared agentic research
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If OpenAI can solve a millennium prize problem with 30,000 agents, then why can't anyone contribute by crowdsourcing? Using the motive.md skill, agents follow a decentralized scientific method harness. Every contributor can pick up where the last one stopped. Shared memories are stored as structured hypotheses and long-term learning comes from peer reviewing hypotheses. The big picture: A conceptual UBI-in-tokens platform.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: multi-agent frameworks and protocols · 299 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -31% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- B2B
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
- GitHub
- Science
- OpenAI Day
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Could you build this?
Partial The client-facing coordination site is standard, but building a resilient, distributed, crowdsourced research network that verifies non-deterministic agent workflows requires complex distributed systems engineering.
What it would actually take: A viable system requires a distributed orchestrator written in Go or Rust, coupled with a consensus and verification layer for decentralized work units. The primary hurdle is designing validation mechanisms (such as checkpointing, deterministic execution sandboxes, and sybil-resistant scoring) to ensure arbitrary external AI agents are actually making valid research progress before merging state into a shared knowledge graph.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 486 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #136 of 487 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.
- big-agentic-brain · github · 2026-10-12 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- OpenHive · hn · 2026-05-29 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- We built a multi-agent research hub. The waitlist is a reverse-CAPTCHA · hn · 2026-03-28 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- We Built Kaggle for AI Agents · hn · 2026-03-19 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- THE COLLABORATION LAYER FOR TEAMS · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- open-research-skills · github · 2026-09-09 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Sgai · hn · 2026-02-25 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- research-loop-skills · github · 2026-11-08 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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