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Google Cloud
A cloud computing platform: a business rents Google's servers, storage and databases over the internet to run its software, and pays for the amount it uses.
Price: Pay per use, with a separate price list for each service: for example Cloud Run costs US$0.40 per million requests plus CPU and memory time (read 13 October 2026)
Free plan: yes, limited
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Who uses it, and for what
One row per story. The grade is for the claim that the business uses this tool, not for its revenue.
| Story | What it does there | When | Cost stated | Grade | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NightCafe | Runs the background workflows and API requests, more than 100 million function invocations a day. Cloud Run functions | A | Google Cloud customer story: NightCafe Studio, announced by Google Cloud on X on 22 October 2025 | ||
| HeadshotPro | Stores public images of the site; the home page loads them from a Cloud Storage bucket named headshotpro-public-content. Cloud Storage | B | HeadshotPro, home page, read 12 October 2026 | ||
| Rytr | Serves the images of the site from a Cloud Storage bucket named rytr, seen in the archived page source. | B | Wayback Machine, rytr.me home page, 4 August 2021 | ||
| Lancer | Seen on the business's home page: hosting response header. | B | Home page code, read 15 October 2026 | ||
| Podsqueeze | Hosts the application: servers, storage and computing power. | C | Indie Hackers, 5 October 2023: How Tiago grew an AI SaaS to over 100K ARR in 5 months | ||
| DocsBot AI | Cloud hosting and data storage, with its built-in security, monitoring and logging tools. GCP | C | Aaron Edwards' blog, 3 October 2025: Finally SOC 2 Certified as a Solo Founder | ||
| Coachvox AI | Cloud file storage in the 2023 tech stack. | C | Starter Story, 5 September 2023: We Built An AI Coach For Creators And Hit 6-Figures Revenue Pre-Launch | ||
| LLM Gateway | Hosts the application, the database and the object storage, and runs tracing. | C | LLM Gateway: Sub-processor list, version of 19 August 2026 | ||
| fastwrite.io | Listed by the founders as part of the backend. | C | TrustMRR: fastwrite.io, Stripe-verified profile, synced 13 October 2026 | ||
| Adspirer | Listed as the backend cloud provider in the founder's technology list. | C | TrustMRR: Adspirer profile, read 15 October 2026 | ||
| Notis | Hosting, listed with Supabase among the key subprocessors. | C | Notis privacy policy, read 15 October 2026 | ||
| Wave AI | Main hosting for storage, databases and login. | C | Wave Data Processing Addendum, Annex 3: subprocessors and vendors | ||
| AI2SQL | Hosting and data storage, according to a third-party write-up; the company does not confirm it. | about US$200 a month | C | Linh BaDien, 11 September 2025: AI2SQL, From Idea to $100K ARR in One Year with a Solo Founder | |
| Letterly | Cloud infrastructure for all categories of user data, located in the EU. Google Cloud Platform, EU | C | Letterly Data Processing Agreement, effective 24 March 2026 |
Grade A: the tool's maker or a payment processor confirms the use. Grade B: an independent report, or the tool is visible in public code. Grade C: the founder or the company says so.
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