Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects

Re:Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects by gentleman11 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @05:55PM (#22632178)

This is a great idea, but I wish was slightly larger. Most people with interesting side projects aren’t stuck by a lack of $500.

I suppose it is enough to take the risk away from paying for hosting if you are quite uncertain

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Re:Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects by onion2k on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:14AM (#22635668)

Most people with interesting side projects aren’t stuck by a lack of $500.

I think this says a lot about your peer group and your lack of awareness about people outside of it.

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Re:Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects by cryptonector on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:13PM (#22632308)

It's a start. Lots of teenagers would love to take that sort of deal.

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Re:Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects by toyg on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:56PM (#22634212)

Yeah, but then it's not something "your work won't pay for".

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Re:Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects by nerdponx on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:52PM (#22633777)

$500 is a nontrivial prototyping budget for stuff like PCB development, 3D printing, prototyping small/simple machined parts, etc.

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Re:Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects by omarchowdhury on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:50PM (#22633427)

If hosting costs are a concern: both Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure give away $300 and $200 in credits, respectively, for new accounts.

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Re:Tyk: Micro-grants for side projects by jslakro on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:17PM (#22638773)

So, the selected project should spend that money on other kind of services like databases, CDN, analytics or other any similar that usually don't have a starter/free tier

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