> For all those people asking why the VCs did not catch this: what sort of diligence would you do?
I mean, it claims to do 80% of the work to create an app in an hour. I'd have them demonstrate that - "OK, have it generate one for this random concept I just came up with" - and provide the resulting code for an independent developer to look at.
If the answer is "that'll take a week", there's your tell.
Another way to cut the cloud cost is to get the cheapest resources to begin with. I've been working on https://cloudoptimizer.io which is a free service to find the cheapest CPU/GPU/Memory resources in the cloud.
I mean, it claims to do 80% of the work to create an app in an hour. I'd have them demonstrate that - "OK, have it generate one for this random concept I just came up with" - and provide the resulting code for an independent developer to look at.
If the answer is "that'll take a week", there's your tell.