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Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by TheSmiddy »

rileyphone wrote: post #80
theblackcat1002 wrote: post #72

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I think this works for university student when 99.99% uptime isn't your highest priority. My university has static IP and near 700 up/down speed to each dormitory. So by investing in an old workstation I can easily work on various ideas and built MVP for it. I finally ended up running a crawler service for months before I migrated to a vps.

You can't really do NAT traversal on a university network though, so it's pretty useless for servers.

Can get a $5 vps and set it up as a reverse proxy and vpn host then vpn to it from your locally hosted server to get around that. Not "free" but this method allows you to use whatever fancy hardware you have which would be significantly cheaper than an equivalent vps.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by DonHopkins »

Don't try this at $HOME, but I have a friend who ran an early "cloud computing" start-up company in the 80's called "Computer Time Share Corporation", that actually sold time on another company's computers! We affectionately referred to them as "Computer Crime Share Corporation".

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by cdnsteve »

013a wrote: post #35

Heroku's free tier is good. GCP App Engine is pretty similar, a little more powerful, but also more limiting in how you build your app. My pick for MVPs is AWS Lambda. It's very easy to get up and running, and you get access to the rich AWS ecosystem. Yeah yeah, the "unlimited scale" benefit will be great when you're accelerating user growth, but that's not why its a good pick for MVPs. Need a cron? Not too bad on Ap…

App engine isnt limiting to how you build your app, the old version was.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by xenospn »

taormina wrote: post #73

Other people have mentioned GCP/Firebase for the $300 free trial, but I'm going to specifically mention their startup program: https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/ I'm hosting my game servers today on $1000 of free credit from this program. If you have VCs and whatnot, they'll be able to get more credits out of the same program for you, but this was great as a solo founder.

Same. I got $1300 credit simply for applying.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by vietvu »

013a wrote: post #35

Heroku's free tier is good. GCP App Engine is pretty similar, a little more powerful, but also more limiting in how you build your app. My pick for MVPs is AWS Lambda. It's very easy to get up and running, and you get access to the rich AWS ecosystem. Yeah yeah, the "unlimited scale" benefit will be great when you're accelerating user growth, but that's not why its a good pick for MVPs. Need a cron? Not too bad on Ap…

Heroku is my choice too. The free tier is good enough, with backend, services like SQL DB, MongoDb, Redis. And of course the scheduler.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by FpUser »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #55
gameswithgo wrote: post #6

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I understand why some are downvoting this but, with consumer internet connections being 1000up/down and a threadripper giving you like 100 cores for a few bucks, this can be a very handy solution, with quicker deploys and easier management. security might be too much of a concern for some applications

> with consumer internet connections being 1000up/down Step out of your Silicon Valley bubble and recognize that this doesn't apply to everyone. I only have 30 megabit up/down with Frontier. I can get faster, but it gets expensive quick, and I don't need more than 30 mbps, even as a gamer. Xfinity only offers 150 megabit down in my neighborhood, with a puny 15 megabit up, and for twice the price. And as others have m…

"Step out of your Silicon Valley bubble" ... I have Business Fiber Internet package from Bell in my house in Toronto. Residential area far from city core with an old houses, definitely not a Silicon Valley. 1000 up and down. It costs me $80 Canadian pesos. Not bad.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by freehunter »

aetimmes wrote: post #25
phmagic wrote: post #16

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I'd like to second this. The amount of free compute available to serverless infrastructure is insane! Serverless does have a learning curve but it's worth it to learn. The next best is Heroku's free tier.

I feel like Heroku got left behind in the current k8s craze but they're still a good choice for a lot of use-cases, cheap MVPs being one of them.

I love Heroku but the problem is the price. The free tier is amazing, but once you get above that, the price scales way out of proportion. It's worth it if you're profitable beyond the point of infrastructure costs and just need to outsource operational costs. But if you're strong on operations and short on cash, Heroku is pretty darn expensive.

It's cheaper than hiring an operations team, but it's a heck of a lot more expensive than, say, dokku on a Digital Ocean or Linode VPS.

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