Go from zero to a live AI-powered product with real users — full stack, zero budget, real infrastructure.
Target Outcome
A live AI-powered application with real deployment infrastructure, analytics, and a documented operational architecture.
Prerequisites
React + Gemini + Firebase + GitHub Pages — a complete zero-budget AI app stack. Read the full architecture rationale before making your own stack decisions.
If your product requires payments, TrustSeal shows how Razorpay integrates with a React + Firebase stack on GitHub Pages. Architecture decisions, auth flow, and the subscription model.
GitHub Pages does not support SPA routing by default. This failure hit both TrustSeal and ScamCheck. Read this before deploying — the 404.html redirect solution takes 5 minutes to implement.
If your product lives on a subdomain of a parent domain, cookie_domain misconfiguration silently breaks cross-property attribution. Set this correctly before your first user.
Vite build, GitHub Actions workflow, gh-pages branch, 404.html redirect script, CNAME if custom domain. All of these are documented in the ScamCheck case study.
Once your product is live, you need to document the build, create content around the architecture, and establish an operational memory. This case study shows the Claude Code–assisted publishing pipeline.
See This Pathway in Practice
A real case study demonstrates this pathway executed in full production context.
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