I Built an AI Startup | Got AWS Credits | AWS Activate Founder Tier

In this video, I'm going to show you how to apply for AWS $1,000 credits. So, first you need to have a valid domain. So, you can go to GoDaddy because uh at the moment they're running a promotion. So, if you go with .in domain, so go with this Go India promo code, so you're

going to get domain for 99 rupees only. So, once you have the domain, you need to have a valid email. So, once you buy this domain, so you can uh just buy it for 1 year. So, if you go with 3 years, so it's going to be expensive. Just if you go with the one, you just pay 99

rupees. So, once you have that, you can uh create an email uh on GoDaddy itself. So, for that one you need to pay. So, if you want a free version, you can go with Zoho Mail as well. So, what I did actually, I bought domain at GoDaddy, and then I created account at Zoho, and then I pointed

these MX records to Zoho email. So, that's where I'm hosting my email. I have a detailed video on this DNS thing, so I'm going to put this video in the description. And then I deployed an EC2 machine on EC2, and then before that I already created an account using this this email for In my case, I created

with supported the right side devops.in. So, make sure to use your domain's email while signing up an AWS account. And then once you have this EC2, and then you need to have a working website because AWS it it used to give uh credits for when you have landing pages well, but they recently they changed everything.

So, for that one, what you need to do, go to ChatGPT. Here uh I told ChatGPT that I have a website devops. hidevops.in, and then let's build a website like a real startup using kiro.dev. So, that's a AI. Either you can go with the lovable lovable.dev as well. You can use any AI platform to

build a website. So, I went to ChatGPT, and then I explained them my situation. I've been using ChatGPT for a long time, so it knows that what I do and everything. So, it gave me an idea, and then if you scroll down, it gave me some prompt as well. So I said, "Let's go

with the Shall we build this end-to-end using kira.dev?" So even you can go If you use with lovable.dev, you can go with that. So it gave me this prompt. Then I went to kira.dev. Then I pasted the prompt. So it built me everything. Then I connected my GitHub repository. This is my repository. Then

what I did actually, I deployed an EC2 machine. And then I bought GoDaddy to resolve EC2 such as saidevops.in as well as www.saidevops.in. So once I have that one, I cloned the repository. I deployed this application using Docker Compose. So because that kira.dev gave me everything including Docker Compose files and everything. And then

for the login login functionality, what we can do, even you can If I go back and let's log out. So here you can check on continue with Google as well. It's going to redirect to Google. So for that one, you need to go to this website and you can get a token. You can click

on credentials and then you can create tokens as well. So I implemented that everything. So you just need to have a running website. So that's been done now. So I do have If I go back, saidevops.in. So I have a working website. Now I can go to AWS startup credits and then click on sign in to console or otherwise

I don't If you don't have an account, just click on join now. Then click on sign up. Create builder account. I skip this AWS part because as you know, you are you can sign up a new account so you can follow the steps or you can use an existing one as well. So

let's go back and here you need to create an account. So I'm going to create a new account. Let's say saidevops.in. .in. Because if you go with company email, that's going to look legit. So, it increases chances of getting credits.

Just fill in the details, so you're going to get an email confirmation email on your domain's email.

So, I've just got it. I'm just going to copy it. So, here fill in fill in your details.

And then, let's say developer or engineer or you can choose entrepreneur, co-founder. So, put your email, supported the right sai devops.in. And then, company name. So, if I go back, but you can see sai devops AI. So, let's put that name. The company name, I'm just going to put Sorry, this is a company type. So, here

you can put sai devops AI. Company type, let's say this is for education, so I can And then, choose India, your country. Once you have this profile, So, here you can see activate credits. Click on apply now. So, here you can see multiple options. So, my business is not registered, so I'm going to go with founder tier

credits, and then click on save and continue. And then, let's say I'm the founder, actually. So, let's choose CEO. And then, if you have a LinkedIn profile, you can put that. So, how long have you been using AWS? Let's say two to five years. And then, what are the top three ways AWS is going

to help you? Acquiring early customers, building scalable infrastructure, and then choosing right tech, geographic expansion, and consumer monetization as well. So, you can choose options. And then here, which AWS topics would like to follow? Let's say EC2. I think it's elastic compute cloud. Can you see that? That's fine. And let's go with AI and machine learning,

cost management, AR. And then you can choose Internet of Things, security, serverless. And then here it says, "What AWS services would you like to learn?" Just say, for example, elastic compute cloud. Do we have elastic compute? You can choose that. Then maybe you can go with EKS. Okay. Amazon Aurora, API Gateway, then CloudWatch. Just choose services.

I'm just going to go to DynamoDB, EC2, auto scaling. Elasticache. That's going to be enough. And then here, are you one of the founders of It says, say yes. And let's put your name. Prahash Reddy. And then I'm going to put surname as well. Founder's email. It's prahash@. So, let's just put a

single name. Name@domain. And then here you can say CEO. And then here, what type of customers do you primarily serve? Let's say, let's look for education and tech. Can I say job seeker? So, you can put that education and tech. And then here, you need to provide your startup URL. It was optional earlier,

but now it's mandatory. So, as I said, AWS tighten up this one. So, I devops.in And then your startup public URL it says. So, Crunchbase I don't have. So, we bought this domain in May. So, let's put that. So, just put your uh when you were when when your startup was founded. So, it was on let's put

maybe 18th 2026. Number of employees at the moment are we do have 1 to 10. Let's put 11 25 otherwise. So, save and continue. And then here you can see describe your product. Who are your primary target customers? Consumers. So, I'm going to just say consumers. What's your primary company's current product stage?

So, launched in we already launched this initial product. And then here you can choose uh how will you customers interact with the application? Web browser, mobile application. We going to have API, so that's going to be enough. Maybe you can say desktop application in future. So, does your product use AI/ML? So, let's say yes, we are in the

business of building core AI/ML products. Actually, we are not building it. Yeah, you can you can use that. That's fine. So, here what are you building? So, it says provide a detailed description. So, what it can do, I'm just going to copy it. Let's go to a ChatGPT.

Applying for AWS startup credits founded team Now answer. Just paste it. So, it's going to give you the lengthy one. So, if you look at uh it's under 250 characters. Yeah, let's let's mention that as well. around 240 characters So, let's copy that. Go back to here and then paste it. Make sure you do

edit it. And then here you can see uh plan product launch date. So, we already launched it. It's on May 18th, 2026. We don't have any uh funding, so no funding you can choose. And then no evaluation eight. So, what percentage of your spend uh is AWS? So, we going to spend around 20 to

25 to 50%. And then how much do you plan to spend on marketing annually? So, less than this one. Save and continue. And then here you can link your existing AWS account. Verify and continue. So, click on that to redirect. Yeah, you can see it's been linked. Click on apply. Save and continue.

So, here you can have a look on that just a preview. To check everything and then click on submit application.