It totally depends if you want to do this as a side gig or a full time thing.. if you want to something on the side.. maybe launch a saas.. for the first two ideas if you have a strong insight that can turn into a fulltime thing then only make sense burning your credits
Honestly, I feel pretty lost here - never done a saas before, but I'm convinced someone out there has figured out the playbook for turning cloud credits into serious money. The economics just make too much sense for nobody to have cracked it. Right now I'm leaning toward the AWS Marketplace AMI route - package something once, sell it indefinitely, and the credits just fund the development, not the ongoing business. But I'd love to hear from anyone who's actually done this at scale.
> I'm convinced someone out there has figured out the playbook for turning cloud credits into serious money.
Yeah, the cloud provider figured that out. They shell out credits fairly freely to almost anyone who asks, knowing that one of two things will happen:
1) The recipient won't have a clue what to do with them, and it doesn't cost them much of anything at all to have offered them.
2) The recipient will find a way to turn them into profit, get themselves tied in to their selected vendor, and then become a profit center for the cloud platform.
Don't get me wrong, it is nice to have the credits. But it is a sales tactic - their cost to acquire you as a customer is just their actual underlying costs on whatever resources you spend. Win-win if you can make something of it, but the reason you aren't finding canned playbooks on what to do with them is that if you really knew how to turn them into profits, you never would have needed them in the first place.
So stop trying to minmax your profits, and just go play with the services. Learn everything you can, spend those credits to self-educate, and now you have more experience and skills to offer your next gig, which probably will pay better than starting a side project anywa.
This is so weird and true. The most unfortunate thing is that a lot of these data enrichment platform where they encourage these workflows but its clear that end person doesn't appreciate it.
Chrome bookmarks + WhatsApp to self - classic combo. When you need to find a bookmark from months ago, do you actually find it or just google the thing again?
This is so damn cool. I remember 10-12 years ago i used to teach kids to do these things manually. This is a great product for kids to experiment and then run it real life on their kits.
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