Hewi

Father | Vet | Builder | Prev. @akashnet

[Hewi @Hewi333]

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@akulabey @NousResearch @Teknium Couldn’t agree more!

[Hewi @Hewi333]

Incredibly grateful to get 2nd place in the @NousResearch business hackathon. The community that @Teknium and rest of nous team have fostered is first class. So many intelligent people gathering for the good of human progress. I looked at a ton of submissions and am truly humbled by some of the things much smarter people than me made.

The Hermes agent has been running for my mom’s company for a few weeks now and we are still coming up with new flows that save them time. Regardless of the hackathon results, we already won because we were able to move the needle for their business and give them time back. I would encourage anyone who has the technical ability to help family or others close to them. We already have tiers of AI users, let’s not leave those closest to us behind. Preferably with open source options, but sometimes you do need that juicy frontier reasoning. My personal Hermes agent is lightyears ahead of the one I built for their business and that’s fine because it fits their needs.

$5k for their ads/marketing is going to be a game changer and can’t wait to start experimenting. If anyone has any hot tips on local marketing for service business, I am all ears!

Congrats to the other podium members @MHArgonaut and @davddiazm - great work gentleman. Excited to tinker with that DGX Spark!

Final thanks to the big man upstairs, @NVIDIAAI, and @stripe

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

🥈 2nd place: Mom-n-Pop Skills, by Scott Hewitson (@Hewi333)

Scott built this for his mom and stepdad, who are in their 60s and run a service business with no CRM and hours of manual paperwork every day. He gave them a Hermes Agent that runs the business through Telegram, the same app they already use for messaging.

The agent reads their inbox and identifies leads, runs a real pricing engine to draft estimates, and creates Stripe payment links to collect payment. The owner approves every action before anything goes out. Scott shipped a full small-business skill library covering CRM, marketing, financial analysis, and owner onboarding in about 10 days.

🏆 $5,000 cash, an NVIDIA DGX Spark, and $3,000 in Stripe credits

Code: https://t.co/bXGx7AYTUQ

https://t.co/NUPCRhuCjt

[Hewi @Hewi333]

@horwath_ryan @NousResearch @Teknium So many businesses can and eventually will benefit from these tools. Keep building!

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@woriwka @NousResearch @Teknium Big ones so far have been replacing manual processes like estimating and invoicing. Proactive lite crm so every interaction with customers (inbound requests, voicemails, email) is tracked. The financial analysis of the books was enlightening. The skills are all in the GH repo

[Hewi @Hewi333]

@EditorEnBici @NousResearch @Teknium Aprendí espanol in escuela y tambien en mi tiempo en la fuerza aérea. Soy gringo y no tengo muchas personas para practicar. ¡Salud!

[Hewi @Hewi333]

@Luca280 @NousResearch @Teknium Good luck to your sister and you!

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@witcheer @NousResearch @Teknium 🙏

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@dmnbuilds not flashy at all, rather simple to be honest. But it just works and thats the point! Thanks for the shoutout.

[Hewi @Hewi333]

@LonzoRat super cool what you are doing. I think the market for small business ai is massive. Lots of retiring boomers on the horizon. AI could change their exit plans for their benefit.

[Hewi @Hewi333]

I gave my mom a Hermes agent for her business. She's in her 60s and not technical.

In 10 days it was estimating jobs, creating Stripe payment links, reading emails, analyzing financials, ideating on marketing campaigns, and buying its own software with a real credit card.

All owner-approved. Real money. Real business.

Built for the Hermes Agent Accelerated Business Hackathon presented by @NousResearch x @Stripe x @NVIDIAAI

If we win, prize money goes to marketing A/B tests, Stripe credits go to customer invoices, and the DGX Spark becomes their local server.

[Hewi @Hewi333]

@Joedefendre Thanks

[Hewi @Hewi333]

@Frudoheili the github repo has a small collection of skills that were used for the business, all open source. I did sanitize them so they could be used more generally by other types of business. I'll keep adding skills there as things progress. https://t.co/MYX9MIoXE9

[Hewi @Hewi333]

@itsKinjalNandy fixed!

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@HermesAgentTips Thank you! followed back

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@jun_song By the time we have m5 ultra that beefy, it will be GLM-6.X. Agree though.

[Hewi @Hewi333]

@perplexity_ai

[Hewi @Hewi333]

Thanks to @accountantquits for the opportunity to build for crypto finance pros. Shoutout to @NousResearch and Hermes Agent for helping build a winning project (used CC as well). Finally, thanks to @perplexity for sponsoring.

Free runway forecasting tool for anyone to use. https://t.co/v2hGY3BqIm

[Onchain Finance Institute (OCF) @ocfinstitute]

The results are in!! 🏆

43 signed up. 18 shipped. 13 projects went live. Here are our overall hackathon winners, voted by the community:

🥇 Scott Hewitson | With 13 votes for his app: ▪️Rough Runway

🥈 Zac Hogg | With 9 votes for his app: ▪️On-Chain AP Payments Dashboard

🥉 Three-way tie with 5 votes each:
Mackenzie Thota ▪️Free Canton Data Export
Joe Dillon▪️Canton Network Privacy Subledger
Visakh Sethumadhavan▪️ClosePilot

Congratulations & well done to the builders who shipped this week.

A massive thank you to @perplexity_ai & @hellokryptos for sponsoring this hackathon.

What do these 18 builders have in common?
None of them is a developer by trade.

The whole point was to prove vibe coding isn't just for developers. They proved it in one week!

Check out all 13 projects here - https://t.co/qeG8lMejKe

Round 2? Let us know in the comment 👇

[Hewi @Hewi333]

@AdamDeanWozney @circle congrats friend

[Hewi @Hewi333]

Rent to figure out your reqs, then buy. Interesting times for ai.

[Sudo su @sudoingX]

local ai is real now, and most of you don't need to spend what you think you need to spend.

24gb of vram runs gemma 4 31b dense, qwen 3.5 27b dense, hermes agent at 15 tok/s sustained laptop and 36 tok/s on desktop. that's production coding agent territory, not toy. a 3090 second-hand on marketplace is $900-1,200. a desktop 5090 is $3k. a 5090 mobile in a rog laptop is $4500. all three run the same class of models for most agentic work.

if you own compute today, you already have what 90% of the use case needs. no subscription, no rate limits, no training on your prompts. stop waiting for the next upgrade to start.

if you don't own it yet, do not buy first. rent first. cloud platforms has 3090s at $0.23/hr. a 4x3090 node at about $1/hr. h100 80gb for under $3/hr. test your actual workflow for a weekend before dropping money on hardware. a $20 rental run teaches you what a $2000 gpu can do for you.

the answer is almost never "buy the biggest card you can afford." the answer is "benchmark your workload, then buy exactly what you need."

every month i see people spending $8k on workstations to run 7b models that fit in a laptop. that's not building, that's performance art.

own compute is the future. but own compute that matches your workload, bought after you've tested the workload. not before.