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Re: Azure Intelligent Systems Service

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Post by theflagbug »

sergiotapia wrote: post #2

I wanted to try Azure last week (still do!) but I can't register and type in my US Credit Card because I need a US phone number to validate my account. Heroku takes my money easily. Paypal takes my money easily. Netflix takes my money easily. DigitalOcean takes my money easily. Why are you so special Microsoft? If there is any MS employee here that can manually create and validate an account for me I would be forever…

I also want to try Azure, but I only have a prepaid credit card (I live in Europe, don't need it except for small Internet things) and Azure is the ONLY service that doesn't accept it. AWS, Google Cloud, Netflix, etc. all work fine, except Azure.

Took me days to figure that one out, because I only got a generic "Your credit card isn't valid" error message when signing up.

Re: Azure Intelligent Systems Service

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Post by joshu »

dmritard96 wrote: post #7

Its interesting to watch all the 'we are the platform for the internet of things' services. As a hardware startup founder, working on IoT devices, I find it interesting that so few are working on the actual IoT devices but so many are working on software to support it. It's great to see interest and it's great to have alternatives to building our cloud backends ourselves, but I would love to see more actual IoT devic…

What are you working on? I personally love this stuff, and I hit the hardware blogs as much as HN.

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Post by streametry »

wslh wrote: post #9
dmritard96 wrote: post #7

Its interesting to watch all the 'we are the platform for the internet of things' services. As a hardware startup founder, working on IoT devices, I find it interesting that so few are working on the actual IoT devices but so many are working on software to support it. It's great to see interest and it's great to have alternatives to building our cloud backends ourselves, but I would love to see more actual IoT devic…

I find it interesting that so few are working on the actual IoT devices but so many are working on software to support it. I think you know the answer: generally, hardware is harder than software for a startup. There was a post about a hardware kickstarter project that failed: "Kickstarter project spent $3.5M to finish a prototype and ended in disaster" [1] and a list here: List of Failed Kickstarter Hardware Project…

And not just that hardware is harder but also the IoT market is estimated at $19 trillion [1] creating a gold rush of sorts.

But yes, there is no shortage of IoT platforms (xively, dweet, nitrogen, data.sparkfun, ...) and I'm partly in involved as well. What I found interesting about the MS program is that recently they were giving away boards for you to try. So it seems they are in a position to provide the hardware and the platform.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-08/cisco-ceo-pegs-inte...

Re: Azure Intelligent Systems Service

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Post by dmritard96 »

joshu wrote: post #12
dmritard96 wrote: post #7

Its interesting to watch all the 'we are the platform for the internet of things' services. As a hardware startup founder, working on IoT devices, I find it interesting that so few are working on the actual IoT devices but so many are working on software to support it. It's great to see interest and it's great to have alternatives to building our cloud backends ourselves, but I would love to see more actual IoT devic…

What are you working on? I personally love this stuff, and I hit the hardware blogs as much as HN.

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