I will explain in this blog post how I build the infrastructure running my online Sebsvisual AI Print Wall Art

I have essentially built my own private SaaS to run Sebsvisual. While the front end is on Etsy and WordPress, the entire ‘service’ layer from database management to AI processing €”is a custom-built, self-hosted stack. Most creators pay hundreds of dollars a month for Zapier, Airtable, and Midjourney. I’ve built a ‘Zero-Subscription’ SaaS that handles all of this on a Raspberry Pi and my own GPU.

It may come as a surprise, but the core infrastructure behind the Sebsvisual AI Mockup Generator runs almost entirely on a self-hosted stack. Even more surprising: I am not a software developer. With only a foundational understanding of code, I designed and deployed a production-ready AI image generation system using open-source tools, containerization centered on a low-power Raspberry Pi 5 hardware.

This article explains the guiding principles, architecture, hardware choices, and software stack that power the Sebsvisual AI Generator. The objective is not to claim perfection, but to demonstrate that robust AI-driven services can be built pragmatically, transparently, and cost-effectively using self-hosting principles.

In this article, I will not explain step by step how to set-up this stack, the information about each of the components are widely available online but I will explain in details the concept of the stack and provide the docker-compose and configuration file of the Sebsvisual stack for easy deployment on your own. Please note that the provided information are valide within my set-up and at the date I worked on it. Open-source services tend to evolve very quickly.

I use for this set-up a Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB of RAM as an orchestrator and low power always on platform. For the heavier computing hungry tasks such as running AI image generation model, I use my desktop computer (equipped with 64GB of RAM and a GeForce 3080 with 10GB of VRAM). This two devices are connected to my residential network and access the internet through my ISP Routeur. I do not have a fix IP nor I am able to freely open ports on the routeur (I am overcoming this issue by chaneling all my traffic through Cloudflare tunnel)