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An AI coding agent rebuilt my photo-collage app as a distributed system and deployed it to a free server. The hard part turned out to be hardware: one free ARM CPU, 538 collages created during load testing, zero failed jobs, and $0 a month.

Like most developers, I have never been short of product ideas. Hosting them has always been the problem. I have tried shared hosting with SmartWeb, Azure free credits, Google Compute Engine’s free VM instances, SmartWeb’s virtual private servers, and Heroku dynos. None of them left me satisfied.…