{"id":82910,"title":"Thunder Compute: Launch GPU instances in one click for 80% less","tagline":"Self-serve GPUs in VS Code with persistent storage, snapshots, and hot-swappable hardware, for 80% less than AWS","body":"![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82910\u0026key=user_uploads/1276433/30b5b896-6109-4aa6-8a05-fb9a138f61a8)\n\n### **The backstory**\n\nHi everyone, we’re Carl and Brian, aka the team behind [Thunder Compute.](https://thundercompute.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82910\u0026key=user_uploads/1276433/07db7c92-f1f2-4356-80f8-9dabf9c2fbcd)\n\nBefore Thunder Compute, [Carl](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cpeterson42) was a Management Consultant at Bain \u0026 Company, and [Brian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-model/) was a Quantitative Developer at Citadel Securities. Carl and Brian met at Georgia Tech and have been close friends for over 6 years.\n\n### **Problem**\n\nGPU access sucks. Today’s options are expensive and hard to use. Developers are crowded out of the market by large corporations and can’t get the GPUs they need for reasonable prices. Even if you can afford GPUs, they are scarce and hard to use.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nThunder Compute sells cloud GPUs for the lowest rates on the market and provides a simple interface to access them.\n\nYou can connect in one click through VSCode, without SSH. We have “prototyping” mode, with prices 50% lower than anywhere else, and “production” mode, with higher uptime and multi-GPU nodes.\n\n### **Our offer**\n\nSimple: low-cost, easy GPUs. \\\n\\\nIf you’re looking for a better GPU cloud, join Thunder Compute’s public beta today at [www.thundercompute.com](https://www.thundercompute.com).\\\n\\\nIf you have questions, need technical support, or want to rant about the current state of GPUs, join our discord at [**https://discord.gg/nwuETS9jJK**](https://discord.gg/nwuETS9jJK) or contact us at [**founders@thundercompute.com.**](https://mailto:founders@thundercompute.com/)","slug":"LZG-thunder-compute-launch-gpu-instances-in-one-click-for-80-less","created_at":"2024-08-11T14:49:40.486Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:54:32.577Z","total_vote_count":50,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LZG-thunder-compute-launch-gpu-instances-in-one-click-for-80-less","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=82910\u0026key=user_uploads/1276433/2d31ed28-4251-4f48-ab42-f814e9f0f705","company":{"id":29767,"name":"Thunder Compute","slug":"thunder-compute","url":"https://www.thundercompute.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2623539c5a9dddb54681db96f38cf2be0f9428d9.png","batch":"Summer 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Developer Tools","Data Science","Cloud Computing","Infrastructure"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29767"}}