Case studies

Oct 16, 202614 min readGathera

Building my own Discord: voice, screen sharing and real-time chat on one free ARM server

A Discord-like real-time communication platform. When I reopened the half-finished 2025 project a year later, messages didn't even reach the screen; within a week it was live on a free ARM server, with voice, 1080p screen sharing, rotating sessions and a single access rule.

Sep 25, 202617 min readContent Creation Automation

One idea in, one YouTube Short out: an AI video pipeline on a single 16 GB GPU

An autonomous NestJS + RabbitMQ pipeline that turns one typed idea into a finished, uploaded 9:16 Short — scenario, identity-locked frames, animation, voice, SFX, music, assembly, upscale and SEO. The interesting part was never the models; it was making a system that wanted a datacentre run on one desktop, on a personal budget.