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Deploy AI Apps on GPU Cloud

Ship production Stable Diffusion, Llama, and custom models without owning a single GPU

📚 5 lessons🏗️ Build: Pixel Forge⏱️ ~96 min total

Starter project · free download

Pixel Forge GPU worker

A serverless GPU image-generation worker for RunPod: Dockerfile + handler + local test harness + drop-in template. POST a prompt, get a PNG.

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Required tier: Pay-as-you-go (~$0.50/hr GPU) — no monthly minimum.

Course Lessons

Rent a real H100 and run your first AI workload in 90 seconds

Free tier: $1 credit, zero commitment, instant GPU

5 minFree

Run Stable Diffusion as an API that scales to zero

Why serverless changes the GPU math completely

20 minUnlock →

Load your own fine-tune, LoRA, or custom checkpoint

Network volumes, model caching, and the one config line that matters

25 minUnlock →

Ship a public web app that users can actually click

Next.js frontend + RunPod backend + one-day launch

28 minUnlock →

Survive a Hacker News hug without going bankrupt

Spend limits, auto-scale tuning, and the metrics that matter

18 minUnlock →

Ship the whole project.

A single H100 on AWS is $4.50/hour and runs 24/7 whether you need it or not. On RunPod serverless you pay $0.00076 per second — only when a request is actually running. Most side projects come in under $15/month.

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Pixel Forge

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What You'll Build

A public web app where users type a prompt and get a 1024x1024 AI image in under 8 seconds. It runs on a serverless A100 that sleeps when nobody's using it (so you pay pennies), wakes in under 3 seconds on a cold start, and handles up to 50 concurrent users without breaking. By Lesson 5 you have a URL you can share on Twitter and not go broke.

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“"I was paying $340/mo on AWS for a GPU sitting idle 90% of the time. Moved to RunPod serverless and my bill last month was $11.20 for the exact same app — 7,400 image generations. The cold start is invisible to users." — Marcus T., solo dev behind DreamCraft (18k MAU)”