I m growing a small SaaS. And cloud costs are starting to hurt. I keep hearing about founders stacking $100-300k in Google Cloud credits, but all the advice feels vague or locked behind big-name accelerators. Where did you actually get credits? Any creative hacks or things to avoid? If you ve cracked this, I d love to hear what worked.
And if you re still figuring it out too, just drop a comment. If I ve gathered some useful stuff, I'll be happy to share.
I joined X last week as an effort to try out the whole founder led growth / build in public thing. At first it seemed exciting. There are a lot of very interesting people there and I find it easy to produce good enough content and be consistent with it. But a week in I haven t gotten a single follower, comment or like. The views on my posts are also super low. So yes, I m in that spot where I don t know what I don t know. Actually there is too much I don t know. So dear reader, if you have any tips or suggestions on how to get going (or simply why I should just drop the effort) they d be much appreciated, even if it s just sharing what s worked for you. Thanks in advance!
Each of us leaves a digital footprint on the internet. The only difference is how much data and information we share publicly about ourselves.
For example, my local friend doesn't use his photo or name on his profiles so that no one will associate him too much with his income or political ideology.
If you were in charge of Product Hunt what would you change? What kind of revenue model would you implement? What would you remove revise or improve?
I will start:
Honestly I would like the Guidelines section to be more in-depth and informative because some parts are very limited in terms of detail.
And I would definitely do whatever it takes to fix the notification system. :D Even when you get different upvotes it bugs out and keeps showing a notification from just one person. Even after marking it as read it still does not work properly.
Our event, which started on April 23 and was originally planned to last three days, officially ended on April 28 at 00:00. And we can say this experience gave us golden lessons.
The main goal was to test our uniquely developed data storage system, combining ZKP (Zero Knowledge Proof) and steganography. Even if the files are exposed, we claimed that the data would remain unreadable. This was our second event, and no one has cracked the data yet. However our overconfidence, lack of experience, and haste caused us to miss something.
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I'm currently building in Social tech with no plan on integrating AI in the near future. It's an app that'll enable users to connect with others near them and attend/host events.
Are you also building a product that doesn't have an AI component? How has it been? Has the available funding decreased for "unsexy" ideas since the advent of AI?
