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$100K in Google Cloud Credits

5 points by kunwardeepgill ↗ HN
Earlier this year while attempted to grow my own startup I received $100K in google cloud credits (https://cloud.google.com).

Well my startup is now defunct and I was wondering what to do with these credits. It's more than I'll ever need. If anyone has some ideas they'd like to test. I'd love to hear it. This is basically unlimited access to cloud computing.

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intellectable
Possible donate the credits to an open source project? I suggest contacting @williamstein [0] who has been actively seeking help to fund Sage Math Cloud [1]. See post here [2] and here [3] for reference.

I'm living on credit cards -- I have no NSF grant support anymore, and SageMathCloud is still losing a lot of money every month, and I'm unhappy about this situation. It was either completely quit working on SMC and instead teach or consult a lot, or lose tens of thousands of dollars. I am doing the latter right now. I was very caught off guard, since this is my first summer ever to not have NSF support since I got my Ph.D. in 2000, and I didn't expect to have my grant proposals all denied (which happened in June). [3]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=williamstein [1] https://cloud.sagemath.com/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10175563 [3] http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2015/08/react-flux-rethinkdb-an...

williamstein
I (author of above mentioned post) would certainly be very interested if this is possible.... Feel free to email me at wstein@sagemath.com Edit: I don't know if google cloud credits at all transferable or what though. They likely have stringent terms of usage??