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Re: Ask HN: What are some great “Free” services provided by IBM, Amazon, etc.?

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Post by trapperkeeper79 »

bambax wrote: post #20
no1youknowz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really want to apply to Google. But unfortunately, my startup doesn't qualify due to not being in an approved VC fund, Accelerator, or Incubator. Does anyone know of any program, that does not require me to give any equity? So that I may join and get the Google credits?

Startup School Founders Track, but the 1st session is already underway; there will certainly be many more.

Wait .. is this the track where you get a mentor or does it include the "follow along" track as well?

Re: Ask HN: What are some great “Free” services provided by IBM, Amazon, etc.?

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Post by endentru »

komali2 wrote: post #39
BrandonY wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, 12 months: https://cloud.google.com/free/ In addition, the $300 is only for expenses in excess of the "Always Free" usage limits, which covers quite a bit of stuff, including 5 gigs of cloud storage, 1 micro compute engine instance, and a terabyte of BigQuery queries per month. (disclaimer: I work at Google)

Why did it used to be 2 months? When did it change? It absolutely used to be 2 months, otherwise, my account would still be able to use those 300$ credits. But I just checked, it can't. I still have the expiration email if you want.

I too remember only getting 2 months to use them- I signed up sometime Nov/Dec 2016. Guess they changed it fairly recently.

Re: Ask HN: What are some great “Free” services provided by IBM, Amazon, etc.?

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Post by andymurd »

Does anybody have experience with Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS? [0]

Reading through the sales copy, it seems to be a reasonable competitor to Heroku. They offer 3 small gears free and have a startup assistance program for those that qualify.

[0] https://www.openshift.com/pricing/index.html

Re: Ask HN: What are some great “Free” services provided by IBM, Amazon, etc.?

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Post by jbob2000 »

samtho wrote: post #4

IBM Bluemix[0] has some good trial offerings, you can always contact them and say you're a hobbyist and they may be able to give you a longer trial. Their IoT platform is pretty cool and you have access to Watson. There is also a surprising amount of open source projects they put out[1][2]. Disclosure: I work at IBM in the Cloud Division. [0] https://console.ng.bluemix.net/ [1] https://github.com/ibm [2] https://gith…

Hey, I tried the Bluemix 30 day trial, even continued with a subscription. I ended up cancelling before I got very far. The UI was noticeably slow, every click was like 5 seconds to load. It was really frustrating as a new user digging around looking for things.

I was using the MobileFirst Services Starter and the documentation was not great, lots of broken links, and just very disparate - I couldn't really figure out how to piece things together. I spent a weekend pulling my hair out trying this thing before I went back to a MEAN stack on Heroku. It's entirely possible that I am the wrong client for this product, it's really difficult sifting through the IBM marketing information!

Re: Ask HN: What are some great “Free” services provided by IBM, Amazon, etc.?

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Post by gcb0 »

geoka9 wrote: post #25
jamiesonbecker wrote: post #8

Google offers $300 in credit that you can use on anything you like for one year as soon as you sign up right off the bat, and AWS has offered the Free Tier almost since inception. For startups, Google[1], Amazon[2], Microsoft BizSpark[3], OVH Digital Launch Pad[4], Digital Ocean[5], have startup programs that you can apply to with varying amounts of service credit (usually expiring afer one year). (Don't write off OV…

Isn't Google's $300 credit only valid for 2 months?

It changes on a whim. Like anything google, some people are probably still seeing 2 months because they are in some bucket or something. Who knows?

Building on google stuff is as risky as building on apple's.

Re: Ask HN: What are some great “Free” services provided by IBM, Amazon, etc.?

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Post by Bombthecat »

griffinkelly wrote: post #16
no1youknowz wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really want to apply to Google. But unfortunately, my startup doesn't qualify due to not being in an approved VC fund, Accelerator, or Incubator. Does anyone know of any program, that does not require me to give any equity? So that I may join and get the Google credits?

If you know someone that works for Google they can internally recommend you as well.

For real?

Good to know :)

Re: Ask HN: What are some great “Free” services provided by IBM, Amazon, etc.?

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Post by bambax »

trapperkeeper79 wrote: post #41
bambax wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Startup School Founders Track, but the 1st session is already underway; there will certainly be many more.

Wait .. is this the track where you get a mentor or does it include the "follow along" track as well?

Not sure, I think they're both named the same... But the deals from Google / AWS / Azure are only available to startups that have been accepted (that have access to mentors, office hours, etc.)

Re: Ask HN: What are some great “Free” services provided by IBM, Amazon, etc.?

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Post by OJFord »

Mz wrote: post #31
BrandonY wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, 12 months: https://cloud.google.com/free/ In addition, the $300 is only for expenses in excess of the "Always Free" usage limits, which covers quite a bit of stuff, including 5 gigs of cloud storage, 1 micro compute engine instance, and a terabyte of BigQuery queries per month. (disclaimer: I work at Google)

Shouldn't that be "source" rather than "disclaimer"?

People 'disclaim' all sorts of funny things here.

Re: Ask HN: What are some great “Free” services provided by IBM, Amazon, etc.?

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Post by mobiplayer »

Mz wrote: post #31
BrandonY wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, 12 months: https://cloud.google.com/free/ In addition, the $300 is only for expenses in excess of the "Always Free" usage limits, which covers quite a bit of stuff, including 5 gigs of cloud storage, 1 micro compute engine instance, and a terabyte of BigQuery queries per month. (disclaimer: I work at Google)

Shouldn't that be "source" rather than "disclaimer"?

I think it was more of a disclosure...
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