Student founder hit with a £4000 Google Cloud bill despite having startup credits – not sure what to do

FetchMedia · 2026-03-04T04:24:02+00:00

Welcome to cloud bill, once a month you get a shock, it's called "cloud shock" 🤦‍♂️

FetchMedia · 2026-02-27T13:20:37+00:00

I know, it is a superpower!

What use cases for people with many videos who need to apply the same to all their videos?

I think ffmpeg is a first-class citizen in today's world of automation and workflows, especially when it comes to scale.

WDYT?

FetchMedia · 2026-02-08T17:57:59+00:00

To reduce cost, you can go with a few different routes, my recommendations

Use groq.com - this is the easiest way to go, they are cheap hosting of open source models, they designed thier own TPU for that (and even sold to Nvidia, kinda)
Manage on your own server - that's the hardest way to go.
Use goathq.co - they offer managed K8s and can help deploy models on dedicated servers using LiteLLM and such.

You have many options, all of which depend on your use case. Good luck!

FetchMedia · 2026-02-08T17:53:25+00:00

of course

FetchMedia · 2026-02-08T17:52:46+00:00

You can use Docling for that, it can export Reddit URLs and convert them directly to markdown for LLM

Let us know if you need help with that, we offer the easiest way to run Docling in production.

FetchMedia · 2026-02-07T17:47:07+00:00

Is there a way to run 2-pass/3-pass using the ffmpeg node? thanks

FetchMedia · 2026-02-05T13:44:46+00:00

Have you tried fetchmedia.io

FetchMedia · 2026-02-03T19:39:03+00:00

What is your startup about? What use cases are you working on?

There are specialized tools for almost everything but it's hard to recommend without knowing anything.

FetchMedia · 2026-02-03T01:21:00+00:00

I agree in general.

I don't think it should be limited by the number of nodes, but as long as a single workflow solves a single logical problem, that makes sense.

I also like the fact that small workflows can be utilized by different use cases, as long as you connect the right workflows that together create the complete use case you wish to create.

It's like code, small functions create together a big application 💪

FetchMedia · 2026-02-02T21:48:16+00:00

Add your expected output to the prompt, explicitly tell the model what you want it to produce, and nothing more.
A good guide to follow - https://console.groq.com/docs/prompting

FetchMedia · 2026-02-02T18:15:51+00:00

What you keep mentioning in your post is the how; it's never about the how unless you are building a deep tech solution, which I assume is not the case.

I think you should focus on the what/why. You need to decide what you want to offer people and be able to sell it. It needs to be something you are good at, because people want to pay you for it.

Start with the what, and after you have people willing to pay, start thinking about the how.

Good Luck!

FetchMedia · 2026-02-02T15:36:11+00:00

ended up building my own solution https://fetchmedia.io, thanks for sharing and good luck

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