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Building AI apps on a zero budget: what actually works

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Where I live, spending money on an experiment is a real decision. So most of what I build starts with one rule: it has to run on free plans first. Here is the stack I keep coming back to. My code lives on GitHub. The frontend is a React app, and Vercel hosts it for free for personal projects. If th…

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