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Free Resources for Hack Clubbers

Hack Club covers a bunch of tools so you do not have to pay for them. As a member you get free AI credits, free hosting, a free custom domain, and a free CDN. Use them to build the projects you ship to Macondo.

Every resource below is free, and none of them ask for a credit card.

Free AI credits

Use Hack Club AI for the agents and tools you build yourself. It gives you free access to frontier AI models, so your project can call an LLM without you paying for API keys.

ai.hackclub.com
Free access to frontier AI models (Gemini, GPT, Kimi, Qwen, DeepSeek, and 30+ more). HC AI is meant for agents and tools you build yourself. Please don't plug it into off-the-shelf coding agents or pre-built AI tools (OpenClaw, Cursor, etc.). And don't use it to auto-generate your entire project, that defeats the point.
Build with it, don't auto-generate with it

HC AI is for the tools and agents you build yourself, not for pointing an off-the-shelf coding agent (OpenClaw, Cursor, and the like) at your whole repo. Auto-generating your entire project defeats the point, and a reviewer will notice.

Free hosting, domains, and a CDN

Once your project runs, you need somewhere to put it. These three cover the common needs: a server to run on, a custom address, and a place to park your images and videos.

  • Nest gives you your own Linux VPS for anything that runs on a server.
  • Free Domains gives you a .dino.icu subdomain through a pull request.
  • CDN gives you fast global links for images, videos, and other assets.
Nest
Free Linux VPS hosting from Hack Club. Deploy websites, APIs, bots, databases, anything that runs on a server. You get your own virtual machine.
Free Domains
Get a free custom domain for your project. Open a pull request on the hackclub/dns repo to claim a .dino.icu subdomain. Check the guide for a step-by-step walkthrough.
CDN
Free CDN for hosting images, videos, and other assets. Upload files and get a fast global link you can use anywhere in your project.
New to pull requests?

Claiming a .dino.icu domain means opening a pull request on GitHub, which sounds scarier than it is. The pull request guide walks you through it step by step. Stuck anywhere? Ask in #macondo-help on Slack.

All of these are free for Hack Club members. No credit card needed.

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