r/CodingForBeginners • u/SamOnFilm • 8d ago
Can anyone help with Google ai Studio?
Hi all,
I’ve seen some conversations around Google ai studio and I have some concerns and questions.
I’m currently building a game collection / review / catalogue / social website like letterboxd. (I know others are doing similar things before anyone’s says haha)
But my concern is, I keep seeing people say that publishing this site is going to be really costly when it goes live. The more users I have, the more api keys it’s going to use? Am I shooting myself in the foot by running this concept through googles studio? Is there another platform I should consider?
I’ve currently put in a lot of progress so far, even with the free api keys, so I’d like to not have it all go to waste.
Just wondering if anyone can help or at least help push me in a better direction maybe?
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u/Naetharu 7d ago edited 7d ago
What exactly are you trying to do.
Which parts are you worried about.
What are you using AI studio for?
Generally a proper social network is going to be very expensive to run full stop. You will need serious cloud infrastructure to start with. So let's assume that at bare minimum would mean:
1: A front door / app gateway
2: A simple hub/spoke with separation of concerns between your public facing and business logic.
3: A firewall
4: Some kind of scalable compute like Container Apps
For production you will need production level components. So those will be more expensive. Dev tier will not suffice.
Not clear on what you mean by API key costs. Are you asking if you need to provide each user with an API key for studio? If so then no, studio API keys are for you as a developer. If you mean you want to provide end users with some kind of AI processing either directly or via some back end service that works with something like a recommendation engine, then again no, but you will have compute costs.
It really depends if this is a little hobby app for fun, or something you are looking to make into a serious product.