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45 Startup Credits & Discounts in One Command (AWS, Stripe, Vercel, and 42 More)

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Every startup program has a discount. Almost no founder claims them all.

AWS Activate gives you $5,000 in credits. HubSpot for Startups takes 90% off. Stripe gives free processing on your first $1M. Google Cloud, Vercel, Supabase, Mercury, Notion — they all have startup programs with real money attached.

The problem isn't that these programs don't exist. The problem is that they're scattered across 40+ websites, each with different eligibility criteria, different application processes, and different credit amounts. When you're shipping product at 2am, "spend half a day hunting startup credits" is never the priority that wins.

So I built a local, zero-dependency tool that puts 45 real startup programs in one command.

What it does:

  • 45 programs, 8 categories — hosting (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Vercel, Supabase, DigitalOcean), AI (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere), communications (Twilio, SendGrid, Postmark), payments (Stripe, Mercury, Brex), dev tools (GitHub, GitLab, Sentry), analytics (Mixpanel, Amplitude, Segment), support (Intercom, Zendesk, Crisp), design (Figma, Canva, Webflow)
  • Category filtering — --category payment shows you every payment-related program with credit amounts and eligibility
  • Keyword search — --keyword stripe finds Stripe's program instantly without scrolling a 45-row table
  • JSON output — --json gives you machine-readable data for your internal wiki or automation
  • Export — --export md generates a full Markdown reference doc you can drop into Notion or Confluence
  • Custom entries — --add lets you append your own discovered programs to a local file without touching the built-in database

The real value isn't the list — it's the structure:

# What credits can I get for payments?
python3 startup_deals.py --category payment

# How much is Stripe giving?
python3 startup_deals.py --keyword stripe

# Full reference for the team wiki
python3 startup_deals.py --export md > startup_credits.md
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Every entry includes the company, category, plan name, credit amount, eligibility requirement, and a direct link to the program page. No clicking through marketing pages to find the actual application form.

Built with Python stdlib only — no pip install, no dependencies, Python 3.8+. One-time purchase, free updates, instant download.

If you're a founder, a startup employee, or you help startups get set up (consultant, agency, accelerator), this saves you half a day of research every time someone asks "what credits can we get?" Grab it here: agentechip.com — it's in the store alongside the rest of the startup ops toolkit (LLM spend tracking, agent monitoring, AP duplicate payment detection).

Your runway is measured in months. Every credit you don't claim is a month you're burning for nothing.

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