OpenIncome
Turning AI/Robot consumption into universal flexible income
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Turning AI/Robot consumption into universal flexible income
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Companies and Institutions Contribute —> fund the pool through a 20% avg solidarity tax on their AI consumption or direct donation. Humans Receive —> a monthly cash share, with no strings attached.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Nicolas. I've spent the last few years building B2B AI tools, and I kept coming back to the same uneasy math. Every dollar my customers save by replacing a workflow with an API call is a dollar that no longer flows to a human worker. Multiply that across the global economy, accelerate it, and the question becomes obvious: when the machines absorb the work, where does the income go?
OpenIncome is my answer. A protocol, not a charity
→ One OpenAI-compatible API key, 124+ frontier models across 36 providers (GPT-5.4, Claude 4.7, Gemini 3.1, Llama 4.5, Veo 3.1, FLUX 2, the lot) → A 5% solidarity share on credit top-ups, and a symmetric 5% on member withdrawals
→ The pool pays out monthly, equal share, to every KYC-verified human who joins → Every transaction lives on a public ledger. Donors, receivers, totals, fully auditable
It's not UBI promised by a government. It's a baseline funded by the machines themselves, by the people who consume their output.
Five questions I'd genuinely love your take on today:
Builders : OpenRouter charges 5% margin. We charge 2.5% margin + a 5% minimum solidarity share = 7.5% total floor. So yes, we're 2.5 points more than OpenRouter, for context, that's roughly one-eighth of an average US restaurant tip (20%), and the entire surplus goes to verified humans, not to our P&L.
Would you route through us at that delta?
And if not, what would close the gap?
Tax-deductibility in your jurisdiction?
Co-branding on the public ledger?
A "powered by OpenIncome" badge that actually moves the needle on your own customers?
Skeptics — what's the strongest objection I'm missing? My current top-three are KYC at scale, regulatory classification (is this a charity, a fund, a co-op?), and donor flight if a competitor offers the same models without the share. Tear it apart.
Future receivers — if a verified human payout landed in your account every month, would you withdraw it, let it compound in the pool, or redirect it to someone who needs it more? And would you be okay with your name appearing on the public ledger of receivers?
Quick one — tax, tithe, solidarity share, dividend, or toll? I genuinely waver, and the word shapes how the whole thing is read.
The uncomfortable one — what's the version of OpenIncome that's purely performative? The version that lets companies buy moral cover without changing anything? I want to hear that critique now, while v1 is still soft clay.
I'll be live in this thread all day. Discord is open if you'd rather chat directly: https://discord.gg/F6svkxat
We're alpha. The pool starts at $0. Whoever shows up this week is shaping v1, and that's the part I find exciting.
Nicolas