Build an LLM Twin: Part 6 - Deploy to Production
Part 6: Deploy Your AI Twin to Production
This is it. The finale. Let's ship your twin to the cloud.
Docker It Up
Create Dockerfile:
FROM python:3.10-slim
WORKDIR /app
COPY requirements.txt .
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
COPY . .
EXPOSE 8000
CMD ["uvicorn", "main:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8000"]
Build and run:
docker build -t llm-twin .
docker run -p 8000:8000 llm-twin
Deploy to Railway (Free Tier!)
- Push code to GitHub
- Go to railway.app
- "New Project" → "Deploy from GitHub"
- Select your repo
- Railway detects Python, builds, deploys
Cost: $0 for first 500 hours/month
You Just Built...
What you have now:
- ✅ AI that writes like you
- ✅ Trained on your actual writing
- ✅ API anyone can call
- ✅ Deployed to the cloud
- ✅ Costs $5/month to run
What companies charge for this:
- Jasper AI: $40/month
- Copy.ai: $49/month
- Custom AI writing: $200/month
You built it for free and you OWN it.
What's Next?
Ideas for improvement:
- Add authentication (API keys)
- Fine-tune on more data
- Add RAG for knowledge
- Create web UI
- Multi-model routing
Series Complete!
You went from zero to deployed LLM in 6 weeks.
That's a $200 bootcamp. You did it for free.
Welcome to the future.
Series Complete: 6 of 6 ✓ GitHub: Full code MIT licensed Discord: Share your twins!