Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure
Jun 24, 2026 · Cloud Native
How a 3‑Person Team Got 12k Users Without Marketing Using OSS Vector Bucket for a Low‑Cost AI Platform
A three‑person startup built Matrees, an AI‑driven world‑building platform, by switching from a self‑hosted open‑source vector database to Alibaba Cloud’s fully managed OSS Vector Bucket, cutting infrastructure costs by about 90 %, eliminating maintenance overhead, and organically attracting over 12,000 users who generated more than 45 million words of content.
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