Not really, most people hate $BIG_CO, they're invested, they're invested in your trendy brand, your lovely UI vs the lotus notes style $BIG_CO. The early adopt

Not really, most people hate $BIG_CO, they're invested, they're invested in your trendy brand, your lovely UI vs the lotus notes style $BIG_CO. The early adopters are going to give you slack. As for the tiny number of startups solving ML business problems, compared to the thousands of web apps launched daily on product hunt, if your USP is computing power and special tech, then obviously this advice does not apply. Edit: You should really disclose you work on AWS when discussing this sort of stuff