I am a 3D artist and I render a lot. The AI boom made GPUs dirt cheap, and who said all those data centers were built for model training exclusively — I can use them for my own thing. Renting a bare metal server and setting it up for rendering is not easy if you aren’t familiar with the terminal. So I built a fully-functioning desktop app with a file browser and correct Blender file parsing. All in 6 weeks from idea to product, with no prior coding experience whatsoever. Here’ the app itself:
And here’s a story I wrote on LinkedIn about how it came to be: