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What people ask before they land here
- which LLM is cheapest to serve at our volume
- how to get your first customers for a B2B product
- how do we evaluate a model before shipping it
- which accelerator is worth it at pre-seed
- vector database for a small engineering team
- how much should a seed round actually raise
- who does AI integration for mid-market companies
- when to make the first sales hire
- how much does inference actually cost per user
Who reads The AI Side Project
Anyone building something with AI outside their day job, and the far bigger crowd reading along: people deciding whether to start, developers weighing a jump, and founders who began exactly here. Ambitious, cost-conscious, and shopping for tools that work on a small budget.
What the desk writes
Building with models in the hours around a job: scoping to a weekend, keeping costs near zero, and knowing when a side project is asking to become a company.
Everything here is scoped to the time and money somebody actually has: a weekend, a free tier and no team. Projects are written up with the costs left in, and the most-read pieces are the ones that say what had to be dropped to ship at all.
It is an unusually good place to be found early. These readers choose their first tools with their own money and very little patience, and the ones who like something carry it into a job, a startup, or a company they go on to found. Being the tool that made a weekend work is worth more here than any amount of enterprise positioning.
The pieces that do best here are the ones that let somebody finish something over a weekend. Write-ups carry the version, the cost and the dead end that had to be abandoned, and readers copy them line for line. That makes a placement unusually durable: it stays useful for as long as the approach works, keeps arriving from search whenever somebody asks the same question, and reaches people at the one moment when they are picking tools with nothing invested in the alternatives yet. None of that costs anything to be part of, which is the point: this is an inexpensive place to become the default answer to a question, and the readers who adopt something here are the ones who carry it into the companies they join or start next. It is also a readership that writes publicly about what it uses, which quietly does a good deal of the rest of the work.
Sponsored or authored
Both are written for The AI Side Project's readers, reviewed by its editors before they run, and stay on theaisideproject.com permanently. The difference is how the page is labelled.
Sponsored
- Carries a sponsored label, at the top of the page
- Declined and refunded if it reads as advertising
Authored
- No paid label: it runs as editorial, in the section that fits
- Held to the same bar as the desk’s own work, or it does not run
The sections
Constraints
Weekend scope, small budgets, borrowed time.
Costs
What the tokens, the hosting and the tools actually cost.
Going Further
When a side project starts asking to be a company.
Projects
Things people built, and how they built them.
Why it works here
A permanent page
2 pages on theaisideproject.com, one for each language, each with its own permanent address in the archive and the feed.
Beside our own reporting
It runs in Constraints, Costs, Going Further or Projects, next to the newsroom's own work on the same subject.
Checked before it runs
Our editors check the claims and decline anything that reads as advertising, with a full refund. That review is what makes an article here worth citing.
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