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You asked for an explanation of why you're being downvoted. Here is another comment that is effectively an advertisement, but one that adds value: https://news.

You asked for an explanation of why you're being downvoted. Here is another comment that is effectively an advertisement, but one that adds value: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41113750 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41113750 More than anything, your comment just feels like you just copy-pasted it from the blurb you send to investors? For example you say: > ... while we can deploy any compute that our customers want, we are starting with AMD instead of Nvidia... > One of my goals has also been to get Dell ... to offer compute credits on our cluster. ... It becomes a developer flywheel... I mean, OK? The second part in particular ("It becomes a developer flywheel") seems totally irrelevant to anyone except a potential investor. Why would I as a customer care about your product being a flywheel?? I can hardly speak for everyone on this website, but I know I'm here first and foremost because I love to learn (c.f. "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."). Even if I were working on a startup similar to yours, your comment doesn't really teach me anything ("we're building our own first cluster of 16x Dell chassis..." OK?) Also, quite frankly, I just went to your website and it reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. > In essence, Hot Aisle is not merely a cloud compute provider but a dedicated partner that accelerates the journey of businesses towards HPC advancements, ensuring they navigate the digital transformation landscape with assured resource scalability, enhanced security, and unwavering support.

latchkey 2y ago
Great feedback! I definitely didn't copy/paste it, I wrote that whole comment for this post. The developer flywheel was in response to the mentions of credits in the Google announcement. It isn't my product that is the flywheel, it is the imho smart concept of attracting developers to a solution by giving them credits. "free drugs", if you will. This is, in my eyes, a big reason why Nvidia is so popular today and what made the cloud in general, so successful. I'm trying to bring that concept to the AMD ecosystem. Previously, you could only get access to AMD MI (enterprise) class compute, if you had access to super computers like El Capitan and Frontier. I'd like to bring these things to the masses and a big part of that is lowering the barriers as far as possible.
- drivebycomment 2y ago
  Honestly, even with this reply, it's not at all clear what you think this YC-Google deal is validating, and how it's directly relevant to what your startup is doing. It seems stretch to call the annoucement as any kind of validation for your startup, whatever your exact logic is here. Your reply above makes no sense to me. NVidia isn't popular because of any "free drugs". Cloud did not become popular simply by giving free credit. It's not at all clear what value your startup is brining to the world. El Capitan is 40MW compute. You can get that much computer from top cloud providers (with money of course) - their combined compute is in tens of GW range, estimate based on their renewable power portfolio. The barrier nowadays is roughly only money, and unless you have magic to lower the price of power and machines, you are not lowering any barrier vs top providers. If you have the magic sauce, it's not clear what that is, at least in the post.
  - yanslookup 2y ago
    As a counterpoint I completely understand how a founder of a company that is competing with Google on cloud AI cluster services is contributing to the discussion by describing (and I guess looking for feedback, investors, new customers, etc. This is HN...) their inventive approaches to providing similar "credit" like incentives in the article. Their startup isn't Google. To me, it's interesting to hear how startups are competing with Google.
    - latchkey 2y ago
      Thanks for the comment. I honestly don't see my company as a competitor to Google though. We're serving the need for individuals and businesses that don't want to use Google in the first place ^. Those of us who feel that there should be alternative hardware available other than just Nvidia, or even cloud solutions. We give full bare metal access to the underlying systems. We work with customers to customize their stack to tailor things to their use case. We're more 1on1 niche and solving for the least common denominator, with best-in-class solutions. Eventually, we are going to run hardware that others wouldn't normally touch and/or we are going to work to get it deployed earlier than any large cloud can. ^ Just as a side note, I'm a long time huge fan and customer of GCP, so please don't take this as bashing Google at all.

latchkey 2y ago

Great feedback! I definitely didn't copy/paste it, I wrote that whole comment for this post. The developer flywheel was in response to the mentions of credits in the Google announcement. It isn't my product that is the flywheel, it is the imho smart concept of attracting developers to a solution by giving them credits. "free drugs", if you will. This is, in my eyes, a big reason why Nvidia is so popular today and what made the cloud in general, so successful. I'm trying to bring that concept to the AMD ecosystem. Previously, you could only get access to AMD MI (enterprise) class compute, if you had access to super computers like El Capitan and Frontier. I'd like to bring these things to the masses and a big part of that is lowering the barriers as far as possible.

drivebycomment 2y ago
Honestly, even with this reply, it's not at all clear what you think this YC-Google deal is validating, and how it's directly relevant to what your startup is doing. It seems stretch to call the annoucement as any kind of validation for your startup, whatever your exact logic is here. Your reply above makes no sense to me. NVidia isn't popular because of any "free drugs". Cloud did not become popular simply by giving free credit. It's not at all clear what value your startup is brining to the world. El Capitan is 40MW compute. You can get that much computer from top cloud providers (with money of course) - their combined compute is in tens of GW range, estimate based on their renewable power portfolio. The barrier nowadays is roughly only money, and unless you have magic to lower the price of power and machines, you are not lowering any barrier vs top providers. If you have the magic sauce, it's not clear what that is, at least in the post.
- yanslookup 2y ago
  As a counterpoint I completely understand how a founder of a company that is competing with Google on cloud AI cluster services is contributing to the discussion by describing (and I guess looking for feedback, investors, new customers, etc. This is HN...) their inventive approaches to providing similar "credit" like incentives in the article. Their startup isn't Google. To me, it's interesting to hear how startups are competing with Google.
  - latchkey 2y ago
    Thanks for the comment. I honestly don't see my company as a competitor to Google though. We're serving the need for individuals and businesses that don't want to use Google in the first place ^. Those of us who feel that there should be alternative hardware available other than just Nvidia, or even cloud solutions. We give full bare metal access to the underlying systems. We work with customers to customize their stack to tailor things to their use case. We're more 1on1 niche and solving for the least common denominator, with best-in-class solutions. Eventually, we are going to run hardware that others wouldn't normally touch and/or we are going to work to get it deployed earlier than any large cloud can. ^ Just as a side note, I'm a long time huge fan and customer of GCP, so please don't take this as bashing Google at all.