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The Workers AI Starter Sheet
Test an AI idea on Cloudflare's free daily allowance: the config, the first call, models to try and what a day buys.
- The free allowance and the price after it
- Config and first call
- Four models to try, by job
- What one day buys, with the math
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The 10-Minute Security Audit
A prompt to paste into your AI coding tool that reviews your app for the holes AI-built apps usually ship with, plus three checks to do by hand.
- The full audit prompt, ready to copy
- Three checks to do by hand
- The order to fix things in
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The Lock Icon Map
What happens in the moment a site loads over HTTPS, in four steps, and where Cloudflare's lava lamps fit in.
- The four steps behind the lock icon
- Why the steps need numbers nobody can guess
- Where the lava lamps come in
- What the lock does not tell you
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The R2 Checklist
File storage with no download fee: what Cloudflare R2 gives free, what it costs after, and how to point S3 code at it.
- Free amounts and paid prices
- Create a bucket in one command
- The three settings to change in an S3 client
- Which files to move first, and the 1,000 GB math
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Free Business Email: The Setup Guide
Receive mail at [email protected] in the Gmail you already use, with Cloudflare Email Routing on the free plan.
- What you need before you start
- The three setup steps, in order
- How to reply as hello@ from Gmail
- The limits, and when a paid suite is still right
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The D1 Starter Sheet
A real SQL database on Cloudflare's free plan: the limits, the four commands to a first query, and the numbers from our own app.
- The free plan limits on one line
- Four commands: create, first table, first query, check usage
- The three meters to watch
- Our own database numbers from 12 Nov 2026
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The Comment-to-DM Wiring Map
How our Instagram bot turns a comment into a DM on one Cloudflare Worker, and the open-source project you can start from.
- The four steps from comment to DM, on one page
- What the bot runs on: one Worker, one database, no servers
- The open-source project our engine started from
- What you need to build your own
- Free with WhatsApp
The Vercel + Cloudflare Stack Map
What we run on Vercel, what we run on Cloudflare, and where new projects start now.
- What lives on Vercel and what lives on Cloudflare today
- How I decide where a new project goes
- Why new work starts on Cloudflare, and what Vercel still does well
- What we learned about keeping code next to data
- Free with WhatsApp
The Cloudflare Free Stack Kit
Everything Cloudflare's free plan gives you on one page, and a Claude Code skill that sets it up for you.
- One-page map of the free plan, with every limit
- Hosting, backend, database, file storage and AI
- A Claude Code skill: cloudflare-free-stack
- Limits checked against Cloudflare's docs, November 2026