YC Open Office Hours

Re:YC Open Office Hours by morgante on Thursday December 10, 2015 @06:56PM (#10714556)

> Really? Are you able to produce more than $5000 of value for your startup in 20 minutes?

Hosting credits are not currency. Most startups will never need anything close to $5000 in AWS credits.

Not to mention that AWS basically gives them out like candy. I have several grand in AWS credit just from attending hackathons and conferences.

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Re:YC Open Office Hours by nodesocket on Thursday December 10, 2015 @07:28PM (#10714698)

> Most startups will never need anything close to $5000 in AWS credits.

This statement is not true. It is quite easy to have a $5,000 a month bill on Amazon.

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Re:YC Open Office Hours by cperciva on Thursday December 10, 2015 @07:32PM (#10714711)

Also, AWS credits usually last 12 months. You can spend $416.67/month at AWS with just one EC2 instance.

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Re:YC Open Office Hours by morgante on Thursday December 10, 2015 @07:45PM (#10714765)

It might be easy, but that doesn't mean it happens to the vast majority of startups.

The majority of startups never get any real traction and see only a small trickle of traffic every day.

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