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IBM Bluemix[0] has some good trial offerings, you can always contact them and say you're a hobbyist and they may be able to give you a longer trial. Their IoT p
by samtho 10y ago
IBM Bluemix[0] has some good trial offerings, you can always contact them and say you're a hobbyist and they may be able to give you a longer trial. Their IoT platform is pretty cool and you have access to Watson.
There is also a surprising amount of open source projects they put out[1][2].
Disclosure: I work at IBM in the Cloud Division.
[0] https://console.ng.bluemix.net/ https://console.ng.bluemix.net/
[1] https://github.com/ibm https://github.com/ibm
[2] https://github.com/strongloop https://github.com/strongloop
- brightball 10y agoI will say, I was interested in trying out Bluemix for sake of Watson but the 30 day trial was a huge, huge turn off. I signed up for an account to look around for a project I'm hoping to find time for next month...but my clock is ticking now despite not using ANYTHING. By the time I'm ready to develop, the trial will be expired. It's a terrible approach IMO.
- jbob2000 10y agoHey, I tried the Bluemix 30 day trial, even continued with a subscription. I ended up cancelling before I got very far. The UI was noticeably slow, every click was like 5 seconds to load. It was really frustrating as a new user digging around looking for things. I was using the MobileFirst Services Starter and the documentation was not great, lots of broken links, and just very disparate - I couldn't really figure out how to piece things together. I spent a weekend pulling my hair out trying this thing before I went back to a MEAN stack on Heroku. It's entirely possible that I am the wrong client for this product, it's really difficult sifting through the IBM marketing information!
- jamesmp98 10y agoI can confirm about giving you a longer trial. I had an excellent experience getting my trial extended.