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.
Flowtica Scribe
Hi everyone!
Google is entering the AI dictation space with AI Edge Eloquent, directly taking on tools like @superwhisper @Willow Voice or @Wispr Flow .
It is powered by Gemma-based on-device ASR models to automatically filter out filler words, "ums," and mid-sentence self-corrections. The interesting part here is the flexibility it gives you: you can keep everything local on-device for privacy, or you can toggle on cloud mode to let Gemini handle the text cleanup for much higher accuracy and formatting.
It is completely free, offline-first, and can even pull custom vocabulary from your Gmail. Have been looking for a solid local dictation workflow? This is definitely worth testing out.
Offline-first is the right call for any docs with sensitive context. How does accuracy compare to cloud Whisper?
Visla
I really like it, but they'll need to enable Keyboard setting on it like Wispr Flow and Typeless so we could use it from within the specifics apps vs having to copy/paste. Not fully baked yet, feels rushed. But offline is a great move.