12-Year-Old Developer Battles Hosting Failures to Keep AI Tutoring App Live

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A 12-year-old developer faced back-to-back hosting crises on the launch day of his online festival for KODA, a self-built AI coding mentor app. Netlify blocked new deployments after free build credits ran out, prompting a switch to manual ZIP uploads to get version 16 live. A move to Neocities as a permanent host then revealed a second problem: the platform's Content Security Policy prevented the app's JavaScript from reaching the external AI provider. However, pre-built safeguards — including a 15-second API timeout, a Supabase error-logging table, and a graceful offline fallback — meant users saw a clean message rather than a broken interface. The developer plans to migrate to Cloudflare Pages with a proper GitHub integration to avoid similar hosting dependencies in the future.

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