[Jugurtha]

I've explored Colab users as a target audience for our product, especially given the fact that practically all the posts on the GoogleColab subreddit complain about how bad it is. Even those with the Pro+ or Pro tend to revert to the free Colab offer because there's no transparency.

What I understood from my interactions is that they complain but will not use a paid product because even though they're paying from nothing to $49, the actual resources used is in the $800/month ballpark (notebooks running 23 hours per day, seven days a week, using a GPU).

These are clearly hobbyists. The pros had different problems such as not being able to pay for it from certain countries.

In other words, there are people who need a notebook to run and not crash and willing to pay for that and there are others working on toy projects/individual pet projects or projects with no real stakes who'll complain about it but will not switch because another company will not really subsidize usage.

Yes, there are other companies that offer notebooks, but our product was for professionals in the ML field, and there's much more to ML project than running a notebook (real time collaborative notebooks, automatic experiment tracking, plugging compute from any cloud provider, one click model deployment, object storage like a filesystem, live monitoring dashboard for deployed models, and more).