[terrabytes]

I’m a Data Scientist and I work in a large-ish corp. We have a dedicated engineering team who take care of all of our infrastructure needs - we mostly focus only on data science. I would expect most medium and large enterprises to have the same setup. Why would they use FloydHub?

[awad]

I sense that you are not currently their target market the way that Heroku was not originally intended for the enterprise but have since expanded to it. There's nothing wrong with that, of course.

My first time deploying to Heroku in the summer of 2011 was a magical moment after spending a rather frustrating day futzing with a bunch of more barebones providers like Linode, AWS, Engine Yard, and few others I can't even remember at this point. I cannot stress how magical it was -- I like to think I'm a competent enough developer but I wasted a long time gluing things together and never quite getting it right for some reason. Before calling it quits for the day I decided to try that Heroku thing I had been reading and within 20 minutes I was up and running. That was impressive.

To note, I've been a happy paying customer of theirs since then, so they've made a decent chunk of change off my business over the last 6 years. If you can capture companies and projects in the infant stages, you can grow with them for quite a long time before it, if ever, becomes economical to roll your own infrastructure.

[Allvitende]

I think you said it yourself, "We have a dedicated engineering team who take care of this". I assume the goal of Floyd is to eliminate the need to build such teams and reduce cost of this type of effort. This indeed seems to be the goal of most SaaS/PaaS startups.

[geoah]

Smaller companies and startups, or medium sized companies that just start with ml/dl will find it very useful.

Currently working in a small startup and our data scientists (just a team of 6) are frequently fighting over the gpus in the office for time and online services atm are overpriced for our small budget.

[narenst]

Agreed, that is the target audience we are going after with FloydHub. If you have some time to chat about your startup, please send me an email naren[AT]floydhub.com. I would love to get your feedback and see what would make Floyd useful for companies like yours.

[sjg007]

I mean with DLaaS then you don't need an entire dedicated engineering team... Same reason you might use AWS.