Airtable offer about $2,000 and is handy as a dumping ground for data and running no/low code experiments depending on what your company does.
What companies offer noteworthy discounts or startup programs for bootstrappers?
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Re: What companies offer noteworthy discounts or startup programs for bootstrappers?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same story with AWS. If you got VC money they give you up to $100k in credits, if you're bootstrapped they give you only around $1k
I always found this one rather insulting. It basically means VC money is a get out of jail free card for a lot of early potential mistakes and miscalculations you can make while working out how much it will cost you to build your business on the back of AWS and how that affects your own pricing model… and the 100x ratio is just rubbing phosphorus into the wound and what elevates this to just insulting to me, it’s one…
At a guess I expect its because the VC has vetted the business model and saves amazon from doing the same. e.g. if accel, a16z etc have stumped up seed money or an A-round it means the company would have a tested model, or at least one sufficient for them to throw serious amounts of money at. This saves amazon from having to do the same and allocate resources to vet the founders and startup themselves.
Re: What companies offer noteworthy discounts or startup programs for bootstrappers?
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you had told them you raised X mil, would they verify it?
Are you really going to commit fraud for AWS credits? Lying for a monetary gain does not seem like the start of a good partnership.
I'm sure it happens all the time. I'm just wondering what their process is.
Re: What companies offer noteworthy discounts or startup programs for bootstrappers?
#44Pangea provides a comprehensive framework of essential API-based security services (think authN, authZ, audit logging and vaulting; as well as more advanced and/or use-case services like PII redaction; embargo; and threat intelligence functionalities) to add security to applications quickly.
We have a startup program which provides Seed to Series A startups with complimentary access to ourAPIs for the first year (or up to $5,000 USD whichever comes first) as well as mentoring and community support.
Check it out here: https://pangea.cloud/startup
Disclosure: Pangea employee, PM over AuthN & AuthZ
Re: What companies offer noteworthy discounts or startup programs for bootstrappers?
#45JetBrains offers a startups discount for 50% off its tools:
Re: What companies offer noteworthy discounts or startup programs for bootstrappers?
#46Retable (an Airtable alternative) provides life time deals: https://www.retable.io/lifetime
Re: What companies offer noteworthy discounts or startup programs for bootstrappers?
#47On Google Cloud, the secret sauce seems to be:
- Google Firebase Hosting for your static front-ends
- Google Cloud Run Services for your APIs
- Google Cloud Run Jobs for long running compute (more than doubles your Cloud Run monthly free compute grant if you can move some compute workloads into a Job)
- Google Firestore for anything that doesn't benefit from being relational
- Supabase for anything that benefits from being relational and/or you need a vector DB.
(I'd avoid Cloud Functions because the cold starts are abysmal and you'll end up paying a small fee for warm instances for anything that is latency sensitive; proper Cloud Run at least has a CPU boost option that seems to help).
Re: What companies offer noteworthy discounts or startup programs for bootstrappers?
#48On Google Cloud, the secret sauce seems to be: - Google Firebase Hosting for your static front-ends - Google Cloud Run Services for your APIs - Google Cloud Run Jobs for long running compute (more than doubles your Cloud Run monthly free compute grant if you can move some compute workloads into a Job) - Google Firestore for anything that doesn't benefit from being relational - Supabase for anything that benefits from…
Extreme vendor lockin! Great advice...
Re: What companies offer noteworthy discounts or startup programs for bootstrappers?
#49On Google Cloud, the secret sauce seems to be: - Google Firebase Hosting for your static front-ends - Google Cloud Run Services for your APIs - Google Cloud Run Jobs for long running compute (more than doubles your Cloud Run monthly free compute grant if you can move some compute workloads into a Job) - Google Firestore for anything that doesn't benefit from being relational - Supabase for anything that benefits from…
Extreme vendor lockin! Great advice...
Not really; Cloud Run is just a container with port 8080 exposed; there's no special code or dependencies.
You can move it easily to AWS App Runner, Azure Container Apps, or your own K8s cluster.
I build for clients using Cloud Run (faster to deploy during testing), but then ship to AWS App Runner or ECS for customers.
Re: What companies offer noteworthy discounts or startup programs for bootstrappers?
#50We offer an HN reader discount which, by some accounts, is analogous to a startup/founder discount. It doesn’t change/expire if you hit it big. Just email us.
Was I supposed to be paying to rsync data?