What you'll learn

Build an AI Baby Generator with Astro & Firebase in a Weekend

Optimized Techstack for the Fastest Development and Go to Market

One-Time Payment Integration with Astro (SSR), Stripe, and Firebase

Astro App with Vanilla JS/TS, TailwindCSS, Flowbite

Custom AI Model (Not Just Generic OpenAI/Replicate APIs) Deployed with Serverless GPU (No Fixed Costs)

Extensive Use of Firebase: Firestore, Firebase Storage, Firebase Functions

Complete Code, Deployment Instructions, and Detailed Explanations Provided

Great Starting Point for Your Own Startup, Side, or Portfolio Project

No Special Hardware Required; a Computer with Any OS Is Fine

Requirements

Having some programming experience is beneficial; this project can serve as a great curriculum to get started with building real-life apps.

Description

This course is good if you already know some programming and want to make something like the AI baby generator quickly, maybe in a weekend. The course will help you work faster on a similar business, startup, or side project. It's also a good project to show off on your resume, because making it is not easy and it uses the newest AI technology in a complex way. We won't just use an AI that's available to everyone; we'll set up our own special AI because there isn't one out there that does what we need for this.Making your own AI to create pictures and earning money from it is not as hard as you may think. In this course, I'll show you step by step and give you all the code to make a working website with Astro in server-side mode. We'll use Firebase and Stripe for the website's functions and TailwindCSS and Flowbite to make it look nice. The website will be able to take payments and help customers by itself. We'll also set up our own AI to make images using Python and Docker, and we'll use servers that don't need to be on all the time, which can save you money on expensive computer costs if you want your app to be available to lots of people for real.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Architecture Overview

Section 2: Astro Introduction

Lecture 3 Introduction

Lecture 4 Core Concepts

Lecture 5 Tutorials

Lecture 6 Basics

Lecture 7 Dynamic Routes

Lecture 8 API Endpoints

Lecture 9 Deployment of Astro Apps

Section 3: Building Astro Web App

Lecture 10 Installation

Lecture 11 Setting up Project

Lecture 12 Setting up Firebase

Lecture 13 Firebase + Stripe Integration

Lecture 14 Upload Logic

Lecture 15 Server Side

Lecture 16 Firebase Functions

Lecture 17 Deployment

Section 4: Building AI Service

Lecture 18 Serverless Deployment

Lecture 19 Architecture

Lecture 20 From Script to Container

Lecture 21 Building a Container

Lecture 22 Creating an Endpoint

Section 5: Connecting Everything Together

Lecture 23 Updating Firebase Functions

Lecture 24 Why Email Service

Lecture 25 Why Mailjet

Lecture 26 Sending Emails from Firebase Functions

Indie Hackers, Micro-Entrepreneurs, Technical Founders, Intermediate Data Scientists, Software Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers.