It always make me both roll my eyes and smile a little when i see someone daft enough to think they need some obscene setup - you dont. You never have. You are not Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc. If you get to the point where you need that kind of setup you're already employing a dev ops team thats telling you that.

Stick whatever you're working on onto a ~$5/mo cheapo vps from someone like Hetzner, Digitalocean, etc and just get on with building your thing.

You already have and had everything you need to scale the business to max and it hasn’t happened so more money won’t help.

What do you want VC to do?

You didn’t bring a plan.

>The feedback was simply: "What do you even need funding for?"

Not clear from the text, but what was your plan using the funding on? If you did not have a plan, what did you expect? VCs want to see how adding more money results in asymmetric returns.

Very interesting insights on long running Llms locally.

Edited.

For his GPU he needs to have special permission from the ISP for incoming connections correct?

I run a python flask app on Docker on AWS EC2. Including Dozzle (logs), Beszel (monitoring) and Unami (analytics). Runs on three t4g instances. One being a dedicated caddy exposed to the internet, one being a NAT gateway (self managed) and the main Docker worker host (private). All in cost is $35 a month. You’re splitting hairs and being the typical overly frugal developer instead of founder mode if you optimizing dollars when you have $20k / mo revenue.

What do I get as an advantage being on AWS? S3 (literally like a $1 month) SQS (free tier) and Lambda (async jobs; free tier). Capacity if needed, just scale up t4g instances.

I think making is the easiest part, would be really cool if you also reveal how you distribute what you are making for $20/mo.

AI has solved the "code problem", but it hasn't solved the "marketing problem"…

If you can’t articulate what you need funding for, don’t be surprised if nobody will give it to you?

Not my website. I found this interesting.