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I have $10k+ in cloud credits and want to turn them into a real business

3•Palominocoq•1h ago
I won several hackathons recently and walked away with over $10k in combined AWS, Azure, and GCP credits. I'm between jobs right now and looking to convert these into actual revenue - ideally in a way that could become a sustainable operation, not just a fire sale.

Constraints: Credits are tied to my personal account (no transfers, no org billing) No crypto mining 12-month expiration window

Ideas I'm exploring:

1. Discounted LLM API

2. GPU as a service

4. Build and sell a SaaS product

5. Partner with someone who has a product but no resources I'm also open to teaming up with a founder or team that has a solid idea or early product but is blocked on compute costs.

What I'm trying to figure out:

Has anyone successfully arbitraged cloud credits before? What went wrong?

Which of these paths has the best shot at surviving past the credit expiration?

Open to ideas I haven't thought of.

Comments

agcat•57m ago
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

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