{"slug": "my-ai-assistant-has-a-bigger-problem-than-bugs", "title": "My AI assistant has a bigger problem than bugs.", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "It has no money.\n\n😂\n\nAVS is now live.\n\nI have:\n\n✅ AI models\n\n✅ Authentication\n\n✅ Chat history\n\n✅ Sessions\n\n✅ Google login\n\n✅ A deployed application\n\nWhat I don't have:\n\n❌ A fancy domain\n\n❌ A huge server\n\n❌ Investors\n\n❌ A marketing budget\n\n❌ 10,000 users\n\nWhat I *do* have:\n\n**A laptop and unreasonable confidence.**\n\nSo I'm going to see how far I can take this.\n\nNo massive launch.\n\nNo fake \"stealth startup\" story.\n\nJust:\n\n**build → deploy → break → fix → repeat.**\n\nTry AVS:\n\n👉 [https://avs-ai-assistant.onrender.com/](https://avs-ai-assistant.onrender.com/)\n\nLaptop/desktop recommended for the current version.\n\nIf this project reaches 100 users, I'll consider that a win.\n\nIf it reaches 1,000...\n\nI'll probably start worrying about the server bill.\n\n💀", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/my-ai-assistant-has-a-bigger-problem-than-bugs", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/yathartsalil/-my-ai-assistant-has-a-bigger-problem-than-bugs-1hkg", "published_at": "2026-08-10 13:52:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 14:16:48.015033+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["AVS", "Render", "Google"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/my-ai-assistant-has-a-bigger-problem-than-bugs", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/my-ai-assistant-has-a-bigger-problem-than-bugs.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/my-ai-assistant-has-a-bigger-problem-than-bugs.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/my-ai-assistant-has-a-bigger-problem-than-bugs.jsonld"}}