Last year my AI apps took off very fast After sharing the revenue on here, my GPU provider instantly gouged me by increasing the price by 600%. Not just me, @dannypostma too. It essentially made us not profitable anymore esp with refunds/disputes/fees considered I immediately started looking for alternatives Those few months lots of CEOs from GPU platforms messaged me One interaction was especially weird with the CEO of one big GPU platform seemingly being on some Adderall-fueled binge DM'ing me for days straight about "getting his GPUs": "Dude quick grab the a6000" "Did you get your a100?????" "Lol I hope u r faster this time" That gave me such weird vibes. I understand GPUs are in high demand but it just seemed like such a strange way of communicating that. Especially weirded out after coming from my previous GPU provider who gouged me and was also not very nice. When @bfirsh, the CEO of Replicate DM'd me he asked about my problems and how he could help. I told him I needed Dreambooth to train models to then generate images of people for Avatar AI Back then Replicate was only for very short-running AI jobs like 30 seconds. Training a Dreambooth AI model took like 30 minutes. It wasn't really in their focus or possible with their stack. But somehow, @bfirsh made it work for me. They manually set up the models themselves and helped us get it working so we could switch from Everyone else at @Replicate (like @anotherjesse) has been pretty much like that, super down-to-earth, respectful, honest, friendly, chill people who want to help you make better AI startups 🙏 Best of all, no 💊 Adderall!