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STACK RECIPES

Build anything.
With tools that work together.

Curated multi-tool recipes for specific outcomes. Each stack has a role-by-role breakdown, alternatives, quickstart steps, and the hidden costs no one tells you about.

INTERMEDIATE$0/mo (until scale)5 tools

Ship an AI SaaS in a Weekend

Zero to paying users in 48 hours. Every tool on the free tier.

Solo builder with a weekend and a validated ideaview →
BEGINNER$0/mo5 tools

Replace ChatGPT Plus for $0

Stack the free tiers of 4 frontier chatbots — end up with more capability than ChatGPT Plus gives you for $20/mo.

Power users who want frontier AI without the subscriptionview →
BEGINNER$0/mo6 tools

The $0 Content Creator AI Stack

Write, design, record, and edit — every asset an agency would charge for, built with free-tier AI.

Solo creators, newsletter writers, marketers without a budgetview →
INTERMEDIATE$0/mo (hardware: 16GB+ RAM, ideally 8GB+ VRAM)5 tools

100% Private, 100% Local AI Stack

Frontier-ish AI that never leaves your laptop. No cloud, no tracking, no per-token billing.

Privacy-sensitive work, offline development, cost-zero experimentationview →
INTERMEDIATE$0/mo5 tools

Free GPU Compute for AI Research

75+ hours of free GPU time per week across 5 providers. Enough to train and fine-tune real models.

ML researchers, students, indie AI buildersview →
INTERMEDIATE$0-20/mo5 tools

Build a Production RAG Bot This Weekend

Retrieval-augmented chat over your docs, deployed and shareable, with observability baked in.

Engineers building internal knowledge bots or customer support AIview →
BEGINNER$0 upfront5 tools

Earn Your First $1,000 with AI

Five real income streams where free-tier AI tools give you unfair leverage. No courses, no MLM.

Side-hustlers looking to turn AI skills into incomeview →
INTERMEDIATE$0-24/mo5 tools

Automate Your Work with AI Agents

Replace three repetitive jobs with agents that run on their own — email triage, research, and content drafting.

Knowledge workers drowning in repetitive tasksview →

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