I uploaded my model on Hugging Face with zero GPU
(made a new hf space called amadeus, picked gradio as the sdk, zeroGPU as hardware)
If someone else is thinking about starting in HF, just wanna tell the annoying part: cold starts. first message takes 20-40s while the model loads into memory. after that it’s quick like 3-8s
then built an actual next.js frontend since raw gradio ui felt kinda mid, hooked it up through an api route, deployed on vercel with my env keys
And it’s live