HACKER Q&A
📣 scottkclark

How should we spend spare GCP credit?


We have been given a large amount of Google Cloud Platform credit ($70k+), which is due to run out in the the next 5 months. Our credit burn rate is less than $1k per month, therefore do you have some novel ideas on what we should do with it?

We would like to use it for "good" projects, and not things like running bitcoin miners! We have a background in ML and web software, although being a startup we have limited development time and resources.

If you suggest ML projects are there any readily available datasets for model training? Many thanks...


  👤 diablo1 Accepted Answer ✓
> We would like to use it for "good" projects, and not things like running bitcoin miners!

I was just about to say use it for mining, but then I read that. You could always use it as a CDN or mirror service to host Linux distro ISOs


👤 dostrin2
I’m really interested to know how you got the credits in the first place!?

I have been trying for a while now but finding it difficult to find anyone to speak to at GCP.

It’s for https://getshnap.com


👤 yash8141
Distribute among the students who need to train there machine learning models but do not have access to high end machines