[paulnovacovici]

Curious, how come you decided to use a cloud solution instead of hosting this on a home server? I’ve recently bought a mini PC for small projects like this and have been loving being able to host with no cost associated to it. Albeit it’s probably still incredibly cheap to use a IaaS or PaaS but still a barrier to entry for random projects I want to work on a weekend

[simonw]

Val Town has a free tier that's easily enough to run this project: https://www.val.town/pricing

I'd use a hosted platform for this kind of thing myself, because then there's less for me to have to worry about. I have dozens of little systems running in GitHub Actions right now just to save me from having to maintain a machine with a crontab.

[bobnamob]

A single cloudflare durable object (sqlite db + serverless compute + cron triggers) would be enough to run this project. DOs have been added to CFs free tier recently - you could probably run a couple hundred (maybe thousands) instances of Stevens without paying a cent, aside from Claude costs ofc

[lnenad]

> host with no cost associated to it

Home server AI is orders of magnitude more costly than heavily subsidized cloud based ones for this use case unless you run toy models that might hallucinate meetings.

edit: I now realize you're talking about the non-ai related functionality.