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My AI assistant has a bigger problem than bugs.

A developer has launched AVS, an AI assistant application, on Render. The project includes AI models, authentication, chat history, sessions, and Google login, but lacks a domain, investors, and marketing budget. The developer plans to iterate through build, deploy, break, fix, and repeat cycles, aiming for 100 users as a success milestone.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 10, 2026

It has no money.

😂

AVS is now live.

I have:

✅ AI models

✅ Authentication

✅ Chat history

✅ Sessions

✅ Google login

✅ A deployed application

What I don't have:

❌ A fancy domain

❌ A huge server

❌ Investors

❌ A marketing budget

❌ 10,000 users

What I do have:

A laptop and unreasonable confidence.

So I'm going to see how far I can take this.

No massive launch.

No fake "stealth startup" story.

Just:

build → deploy → break → fix → repeat.

Try AVS:

👉 [https://avs-ai-assistant.onrender.com/](https://avs-ai-assistant.onrender.com/)

Laptop/desktop recommended for the current version.

If this project reaches 100 users, I'll consider that a win.

If it reaches 1,000...

I'll probably start worrying about the server bill.

💀

source & further reading
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