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We don't chase customers. We build with you.
How to Hire Us
01 · PAY IT FORWARD
Make a donation to MEGALab. That's your application.
There's no price list. You pick the amount, based on:
- The problem: how big and how hard it is
- The payoff: what it'll do for you once it works
- Your stage: idea, prototype, production, or scale
Give what you can genuinely afford. Your first contribution shows us you're serious, and it keeps the lab building for the next person.
02 · WE CALL YOU
No form. No pitch deck. If your problem fits the lab, we reach out.
03 · BUILD IT TOGETHER
Idea to produce to product. You learn every step.
Until that first contribution, we're not available for contact, consultation, or review.
If that feels harsh, we're not your lab. If it feels fair, pay-it-forward.
how pay-it-forward works
Open source business model. No licenses. No paywalls. No fixed price.
People who benefit from the work give back what they can afford. That keeps the printers running, the lasers burning, the AI factories online, and the code shipping for the next builder.
Your project exists partly because people before you paid it forward. Now it's your turn.
We're a bazaar, not a cathedral. Many minds, building in the open. When one project wins, every project gets better.
pick your mode
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--onceOne-time problem, one-time donation. The heavy lift was up front.
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--monthly/--yearlySomething runs every day: monitoring, automation, ongoing dev. Give what that ongoing value is worth.
Give a little or give a lot. All of it matters.
where it goes
- Stack: frameworks, data pipelines, dev tooling, edge hardware
- Models: training and fine-tuning AI for real-world tasks
- Prototypes: new products and projects, from sketch to shipped
- Infrastructure: the networks and compute that run AI at the edge
thank you
To everyone who has given: you turned experiments into working systems. To everyone thinking about it: thanks for asking the question.
"My project exists because people I'll never meet chose to pay it forward."
— Shawn