Vectordash
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Vectordash was a San Francisco cloud gaming startup launched out of Y Combinator in 2019 by co-founder Sharif Shameem. It turned underpowered rigs like MacBook Airs into gaming machines by rendering games on cloud infrastructure — but instead of building expensive data centers, it rented GPU power from idle crypto-mining rigs, paying providers $60–105 per month. The service charged gamers $28 per month to play titles like Fortnite and Apex Legends, including 4K 60 FPS streaming, initially in the San Francisco Bay Area.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and YC launch
Vectordash launched out of Y Combinator in 2019, introducing its 'Airbnb for GPUs' cloud gaming service: gamers paid $28/month while the company paid crypto miners $60–105/month for GPU rental, demonstrated with Apex Legends running at 100 FPS on a 13-inch MacBook.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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