Nine modules. Every one ends with something running on your machine or something live and taking money. No module ends with a summary.
Stack · 01Hardware, honestly
What your machine can actually hold. VRAM math, model sizes, and the point at which the answer is “rent a GPU for an hour.”
Stack · 02First model running
Ollama end to end. Pulling weights, swapping models, context windows, and a local endpoint your other apps can call.
Stack · 03Quantization
GGUF, the quant ladder, and how much quality you give up at each rung. Measuring it instead of guessing.
Stack · 04Your own documents
Chunking, embeddings, a vector store, and retrieval that returns the right passage. Built locally, no vendor.
Stack · 05Fine-tuning
LoRA on one consumer GPU. Building the dataset, running the train, and knowing when a fine-tune was the wrong tool.
Stack · 06Serving it
vLLM for throughput, a reverse proxy, auth, and reaching it from your phone without opening your machine to the internet.
Cash · 07The offer
Choosing a problem with a budget behind it. Four offer shapes, and how to test one before building anything.
Cash · 08Ship and charge
A paid product live in a weekend: the build, the Whop storefront, checkout, delivery, and the first customer.
Cash · 09Make it repeat
Pricing, outreach that gets replies, retention, and reading the numbers so you scale the thing that works.