Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

Re:Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for ... by fragmede on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:55PM (#36937312)

What's wrong with doing something profitable for a few years? H100's in a couple of years will be like having a cluster of K80's today.

Not everything has grow to have the appetite of Galactus and swallow a whole planet. Making single digit millions of dollars over a couple of years is still worthwhile, especially if it helps others and moves humanity forwards.

This project isn't ever going to want to try and compete with AWS, so no, it's not a billion dollar question. $20 Million, yeah.

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Re:Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for ... by constantly on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:10PM (#36937436)

You’re completely right in everything you say about growing sustainably and making some money over time. But if this project is VC that all goes out the window and it won’t be profitable unless it massively galactus scales to compete with AWS in 5-7 years, and will fail after that almost certainly, like the vast, vast majority of VC projects.

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Re:Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for ... by AndrewKemendo on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:18PM (#36937490)

Hey I agree!

That’s why I’m asking because a “bootstrapped” company like you describe has a future…

One backed by VC doesn’t

I mean they may have a future but not like you describe

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