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?