Browser as a Server

👋 Hi dev.to! Introducing 🧶 Wool Ball: the first distributed network of browsers acting as servers.

Why?

During a personal project, I spent a lot on Text-to-Speech solutions and started looking for a cheaper alternative with reasonable quality.

Knowing that browsers today can execute AI tasks, I tested a concept:

• An API that calls a browser, processes the text-to-speech, and then returns the result.

It worked—but that wasn’t enough. This solution sparked far more interest than the project I was previously working on (🔗 AI Chess Global), so I decided to productize this capability.

For the past 3 weeks, I’ve been giving everything I have to build and validate this concept, and I would love to hear the community’s feedback!

The idea is to enable regular people with internet-connected devices to get paid for keeping their browsers open and sharing resources to process AI and multimedia tasks.

Use Cases

We’ve implemented 11 capabilities through APIs, including:

• 10 AI tasks powered by open-source models.
• 1 multimedia processing task.

The models we use are available on Hugging Face, sourced from major players like Google, Meta, OpenAI, and independent developers.

The practical applications are broad and diverse; trying to describe them would only limit the possibilities.

How It Works

Wool Ball operates with extremely lightweight models, focusing on:
✅ Compatibility with as many devices as possible, including machines without GPUs.
✅ Drastically reducing costs, making AI more accessible to developers and startups.

⚠️ However, this comes with an inherent limitation:

• It’s not designed for large data volumes or real-time processing.

That said, the cost-benefit ratio is significant, enabling widespread adoption of AI capabilities.

Get Involved

First and foremost, any comments, questions, or criticism about the platform or concept will be incredibly valuable.

If you believe in the idea’s potential, join as one of the first participants and earn bonuses for it!

We’re organizing the Programa Lines, aimed at building a base of active browsers while accelerating product growth.

In return, we’re offering future payouts (different from API usage credits) that participants can withdraw when the platform scales.

On average, participants can earn $500 each.

🔗 🪡 Programa Linhas

Also, join our Discord to stay updated and discuss features:
👉 🔗 Discrd

Learn More

We’d love to have you as a user—whether you’re sharing resources or using our API.

👉 Explore Wool Ball: 🔗 Woolball